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Remote Year: Osaka, Japan ⛩🇯🇵

Name: Osaka, Japan
Start: 2024-05-19
End: 2024-06-15
Location: Osaka, Japan

2 June – 29 June 2024 · $500 / week*

Private rooms

Coworking included

Flights included

Attendance
40-80

Accommodation: Private rooms
Housing: Apartments & Hotels
Coworking
Flights

Attendance: 40
Capacity: 80
Down payment: $5,000
Price: $2,000 / month
Minimum stay: 4 months

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614 Reviews

4.6

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MrsHRLady

Florianópolis 🇧🇷 Valencia 🇪🇸 Osaka 🇯🇵

My trip to Osaka in September 2024 was a truly enriching experience and one of the highlights of my remote year journey. Ken is, by far, the best city manager I’ve encountered. His professionalism, extensive knowledge, fantastic personality, and thoughtful recommendations made my time in Osaka exceptional. The city itself is peaceful, safe, fun, and culturally vibrant, with amazing food and friendly people. I’m so glad I decided to visit! Ken, keep up the excellent work—I truly appreciate all your help, guidance, and incredible patience!

10 months ago

Emily Nash

Valencia 🇪🇸 İstanbul 🇹🇷 Tirana 🇦🇱 Dar es Salaam 🇹🇿 Lima 🇵🇪 Medellín 🇨🇴 Mexico City 🇲🇽 Nairobi 🇰🇪 Osaka 🇯🇵

I spent June '24 in Valencia and it was easily the best travel experience I've ever had. My Community Manager, Marina, was an absolute gem and all of the events were so interesting and unique. I lucked out with meeting a fantastic group of humans from all around the world and am leaving with some lifelong friends. I cannot recommend Remote Year enough.

a year ago

Noel Simsiman

Osaka 🇯🇵

Remote Year provided a great framework to make my stay in Japan a memorable one. First, the Remote Year (RY) Team assisted me in preparing for my stay before getting on my flight there. Second, the RY team provided the entire cohort with great accommodations to live and work from Japan. It was especially helpful for me because I was able to successfully complete my work overnight in Japan when I had to report to my regular job. Third, the RY team in Osaka did a great job teaching us with important Japanese customs, phrases, and other know-how, so we can effectively live, travel, and communicate in Japan. Fourth, the RY team created a variety of events to expose us to different historical and modern experiences there. Last, I built lasting friendships with my cohort, and we will look to keep in touch for the rest of our lives now that the program has completed. Thank you, Remote Year for setting this up!

2 years ago

Heather M

Osaka 🇯🇵 Chiang Mai 🇹🇭 Hanoi 🇻🇳

I went on the Asia 4 Month journey to Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, and India.

This was my first digital nomad experience, I took the leap and loved it. Now I'm hooked and plan on doing more programs.

Accommodations always felt safe, I can't guarantee your experience but I always had my own shower/bathroom which was great.

The city teams especially Miao in Thailand, Trang and Chau in Vietnam, and Chatal in India made the experience practically seamless. They were beyond helpful and often went the extra mile to not only answer questions or offer options but help set them up.

My Community Leader, Sharon, is a seasoned expert. She made sure we had a good community with lots of unofficial events and also embodied a practice of work life balance.

For some context on expectations I budgeted ~$1,500 usd after the monthly cost for each country including experiences and souvenirs. Your own travel style will impact what you spend but this budget worked very well for me, I never missed an event for budget issues and always came in very close to budget.

2 years ago

Misty Berdiel

Lima 🇵🇪 Osaka 🇯🇵

I loved my time in Osaka, but the the Remote Year Osaka Program does need a bit of rehab. I joined the 1-Month Osaka Remote Journey. The accommodations were comfy and suitable for 1 person. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of room I had. The City Team was knowledgeable and very chill. They set a great atmosphere for the group to gel together.

That being said there are parts of the program that need work. I was incorrectly invoiced for the trip, this was corrected after 48 hours. Prior to joining the program onboarding was also disjoined and not very seamless. The Add-Ons that we needed to purchase for the trip should have been accessible 30 days prior to the arrival date. But in this instance I received them about a week in advance of the arrival date which made planning for the month long trip rather stressful.

My time in Osaka was fun, and I am grateful for the group that I was with. The group can definitely make or break the experience.

Overall it was enjoyable. My group consisted of 1-month and 4-month remotes which did not mingle together as often as my previous Remote Year Lima group of only 1-Month Remotes, but when we were together the group was relatively cohesive. The events were nice, but not always fully thought out. No snacks will be provided on your day trips, so plan ahead.

Ground transportation during the one month stay is not included, though this is listed as part of what your fee covers. The only transportation which is covered is transport from the airport to the Remote Year accommodation (If you choose your own accommodation for the month you will need to cover that cost). You will need to cover the cost of transportation back to the airport at the end of your 1 Month Journey.

I would recommend this journey for experienced travelers interested in visiting Osaka, but be aware it does have some procedural flaws making the experience a bit uncomfortable at times.

2 years ago

Reply from Remote Year

Thank you for your review of the month, it’s great to know that despite some challenges, you loved your time in Osaka, and the Ry accommodation and team delivered what we would expect.

Because this was our first month back in Osaka, and with a new team, we experienced some unexpected delays in making sure the experience marketplace was ready, and we truly apologize for this. Thankfully this was a one off and we are back on track, having this ready good time for future months.

We’ll review your experience as part of the Onboarding too, to see where improvements could be made.

We hope it is clear on our site that everywhere we talk about transport that arrival transfer is included for those who book Remote Year Accommodation, but return transfer is not. This is the same for when refreshments are or are not included in certain experiences. We value the feedback, and your thoughts have been passed on to the Osaka and website team so we can look into if we can make these any more clear to save future confusion.

Thank you again for traveling with us and for giving us these details. Hopefully Osaka wasn’t your last stop!

Daniel
VP Experience.

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