About the MinamiShimabara
Farm Stay Experience
What does a MinamiShimabara Farm Stay entail?
Live a Japanese lifestyle as one of the members of your homestay family and experience country life, foodmaking and farming/fisheries. Spend time with your host family and deepen your cultural exchange
experience.

＜Dear Guest＞●The place you are staying at is not a hotel, but a regular family home. As such facilities e.g.,heating/cooling equipment availability will depend on each household.
Depending on

Wi-Fi

the house
Western or

Wi-Fi isgenerally notavailable.

Japanese style toiletscould be available.

●Please prepare and eat meals with your host family and learn about Japanese homestyle meals.
Alcohol, soft drinks and juice is BYO. You can bring whatever drinks you’d like.

●Bedrooms are traditional tatami rooms.
≪Example≫
TubShowerRoom

Sliding door

Kitchen

Living Room

Family’s
Bedroom

2.DrawingRoom
1.GuestBedroom

2.Drawing Room

Front
Entrance

1.Guest Bedroom* When 2 groups are staying in the same

Toilethousehold, it’s common for both room 1 and2 to be used.

●Please don’t drain the hot water from the bathtub. Your host family will also use this water.
●Please don’t wash yourself in the bathtub. Use the connecting shower room/shower space.
●Your host family can only speak Japanese, so please try to communicate using hand gestures etc.
●While staying with your host family, please don’t head off on your own. Move around with your family.
●The homestay family will not be held responsible for the loss or damage of valuables or property.

＜To the Travel Agent＞★Please understand the following points in relation to “Minami-Shimabara Homestay Experience” andexplain these to your customers.
★For a proper “MinamiShimabara Homestay Experience”, we would like guests to deepen their connection
with their host families by staying at their houses and doing various activities together.
★The lodgings are not hotels, but a regular Japanese household and facilities will be different perhousehold.
During the homestay experience, please live as one of the family members and follow their rules.
★During the homestay experience, guests will prepare meals, ready their futons, and perform work
activities (farming/fishing, etc.) together with their host family.
(It’s a requirement to prepare/clean up after meals and make/pack up bedding together with the family.)★Meals will vary depending on each household. Please enjoy making and eating Japanese style home cooking
together.
★Please provide a list of guests’ names at least one week before arrival.
The list should provide the following details:

Capacity：3～5 people① Name (phonetic guide for name pronunciation in Japanese)② Passport№③ Date of birth

According to the Inns and Hotels Act, it is compulsory for passports to beheld at the place of accommodation for safekeeping.

④ Allergy information (food/animal etc) *Allergies can be life threatening, so please confirm with guests⑤ Group relation (family/friends/colleagues etc.)※ After the guest list has been submitted, homestays will be allocated and a finalized accommodation
list returned to the travel agent. Please make sure the accompanying tour guide has a copy of the list.
Travel Agent submits list to Tourist
Association

After homestays arranged,
list is sent to the travel agent

Travel Agent gives list toattending tour guide★The attending tour guide (interpreter) needs to accompany a member of the MinamiShimabara Tourist
Association and visit each household by car.
We will go around to make sure there hasn’t been a mismatch between homestay house and guest and toconfirm that there is no problem. During this check, we would like the guide to interpret. By being
meticulous in following up, we can increase the quality of our homestays. We receive good feedback fromguests from this.
★Please bring clothes and shoes that you don’t mind getting dirty for use during farming/fishingexperiences.
If you are unable to arrive in MinamiShimabara by 2~3pm, it may be hard to join in the farm/fishingexperience.
★If the period of stay is short, spending time with the family will become the main focus.
★Booking of accommodation for the tour guide and bus driver will be taken care of by the travel agent.
① Hara Castle Onsen Masago TEL:0957-85-3155 Address: MinamiShimabara, Minami-Arima Tei 133② Shirahama Beach Hotel TEL:0957-86-3030 Address: MinamiShimabara, Kuchinotsu Kou 2829-1③ Hotel Shiro TEL:0957-85-2020

Address: MinamiShimabara, Minami-Arima Tei 170

MinamiShimabara City Tourist Association
E-MAIL: kankou@himawarinet.ne.jp
Nagasaki-ken, MinamiShimabara-shi, Minami-Arima Otsu 1395
TEL: 0957-65-6333