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Taking an internship abroad is a huge decision. We live in a world where the planet is getting smaller by the day. We are all so connected with technology and modern communication, but still there are other worlds out there, so to speak. There are other cultures and other traditions that beg to be experienced. One of the places that houses culture and tradition like no other is Japan, and there's no better way to experience Japan than to take a hotel and hospitality internship.


Even if you don't speak the language very well, you will be amazed at how quickly you pick it up. After all, they say the best way to learn a language is to become submerged in the very culture that speaks that language. And when you work in the hotel and hospitality industry, you get to meet all sorts of interesting people, from all over the world most likely. Japan is a place everyone wants to visit, and you'll be one of the first people they'll see and talk to when you work in the hotel and hospitality industry.

Finding Jobs
To begin your journey to becoming an intern in Japan, you must first find jobs available in the hotel and hospitality industry. Most likely, these jobs are going to be very entry level, a place where you can acclimatise quickly to the culture if you're not familiar with it and still do a good job if you're not yet proficient at the language or whatever job you're offered. You can find intern jobs in Japan and other places all over the world online.
When you travel to Japan to work as an intern in the hotel and hospitality industry, you may stay with a host family, or you may live amongst other workers from other places around the world with the same goals as you do. Either way, you'll get to experience different cultures first hand. And this isn't to mention that you'll be living in Japan, which has become one of the world's most technologically advanced and culturally stylish countries.


While you learn your trade, taking care of others and catering to their every need so that they leave satisfied, you'll be learning a new language, meeting great and interesting people, and you'll be experiencing a culture that's thousands of years old, yet advancing all the time. What a great experience it will be. If this sounds like something you'd like to do, get online and start searching for hotel and hospitality intern jobs in Japan. You'll never experience anything else like it and this is one opportunity you definitely don't want to pass up.

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One of the cheaper more rustic accommodations in Naruko has to be the Ogiya hotel. When we first arrived it looked rather aged, but upon entry we were surprised to see how nice it was inside. The lobby had a very relaxing feeling and we all felt at home right away.

Our Japanese style room was rather refreshing featuring a 10 tamtami room with a private bathroom, a safe, small T.V and fridge. The room also had a surprisingly good view of the river and surrounding mountain ranges.
As for any hotel in Naruko, the Ogiya hotel offered two different choices of natural volcanic hot springs. The second floor held both a men's and women's only indoor bath, The bathing room was quite small holding one bathing pool with medium and also had a large window with a descent view. The second option, which I thought was quite cool, was the two outdoor baths on the fourth floor. This was the first time I had seen a hot spring hotel offer private bathing rooms for families. The outdoor baths had a quite rustic look and featured one largest wooden bathing pool in each room.

Ogiya Hotel also gives its guest a unique dinning experience providing an in room dinner instead of offering a restaurant in their hotel. I had got use to the all you can eat dinners most of the hotels I been to in Japan and was a little disappointed to hear the Ogiya hotel did not have a smorgasbord dinner, until at 6:15 the staff brought in an unbelievable dinner set that put my mind at ease.


The dinner was well above what I had expected with a variety of different dishes including seafood, rice, soup, beef tongue, pork and some of Naruko's famous mountain vegetable dishes, it was definitely enough food to make anybody want to take a nap. The in room meal sets a different mood and gives families the chance to relax and enjoy their meal in the comfort of their own room; it was also great not to have to worry about what my two kids were doing.

Breakfast
The continental breakfast was served on the first floor in their dining room featuring a classic Japanese breakfast of rice, miso soup, fish, hot spring boil eggs and other small traditional Japanese dishes.
Over all
Over Japan Network gives the Ogiya hotel an 8 out of 10 rating and recommends this hotel to anyone wishing to visit the hot spring resort of Naruko.

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The Japanese are a practical people. In the past most young adults lived with their parents until they married, and it was not unusual to find three generations living under one roof, separated only by paper thin walls or shoji screens. Needless to say, finding a suitable place to pursue the most private of acts was somewhat difficult to achieve. Emerging from necessity, "Love Hotels" were introduced in the late 1950's, offering couples who desired time alone an affordable room to rent by the hour. While they might be perceived as bawdy or odd to a foreign visitor, Love Hotels are considered futsuu (normal) in Japan, a fact of life for high school students on up to middle aged lovers and beyond. The Japanese attitude toward sex is often more relaxed and cosmopolitan than that of the west, and these establishments are an accepted segment of a society where space and privacy are at a premium.


Originally modeled after traditional Japanese inns called Ryokan, the hotels in the early 60's gradually began catering to a more modern, western concept of love and romance, featuring ceiling mirrors and rotating beds with European styled furnishings adorning each room. Eventually these were replaced with high tech amenities, contemporary rooms now offering fully automated services. The television provides a variety of films or karaoke music, while radio and lights are effortlessly controlled from the headboard of the bed. Alcohol, snacks, and sex-toys can be ordered from room service and paid for with a credit card. For those who enjoy multitasking, some hotels even offer "sun beds" that provide a tan while you indulge in other sensual delights.

Bordering highways, nightspots, and sometimes even found in suburbia, bright neon lights flashing names like "Hotel Charm", and "Love Oasis" make these hotels easy to spot for couples with or without a car. For married couples wishing to add variety to their sex life, or "salarymen" and their "office ladies" in search of a clandestine haven after an evening spent drinking, these convenient love nests offer a readily available solution.

Love Hotels are models of discretion, and ensuring that a customer can fully relax while there is a top priority. Clients entering the premise never see the staff or other customers, and anonymity is always assured. Those arriving by car enter underground parking lots hidden from view, and staff often cover license plates to deter any curious onlookers. Upon entering the reception area the customer is greeted by a lit panel displaying photographs of available rooms. Choosing a room is as simple as pressing a button, the extinguished light of the panel confirming the room selected is now occupied. Payment is made discreetly to a staff member who remains hidden behind a partition, and verbal exchange between patron and staff is usually unnecessary.
Depending on the location and exclusivity of the hotel, the amount paid for time spent varies. Room rates are displayed on a sign in front of the hotel, and can range from (2,500-6,000) yen for a "rest" (usually two hours) to as much as 12,000 yen for an overnight stay. Though often cheaper than business hotels or other traditional accommodation, Love Hotels do not provide the same kind of services in regard to mobility. Once you have left the hotel you unfortunately have to pay again to reenter.