What is the best part time jobs in japan for international students?

There are many part time jobs in japan for international students. If you are planning to stay in Japan for long period, going to language school would be the easiest option to stay long in Japan. While you stay you can learn many things and have fun. Although there are limits, you can get part time jobs while you are a student. In this post, we will cover

1. Where is a good area to get part time jobs in japan for international students
2. What is the best part time jobs in japan for international students can get
3. What is the wage for part time jobs in japan for international students
4. How international students look for part time jobs in japan

Good place to get part time jobs in japan for international students

The part time jobs you can get depends on your Japanese level. If you have high proficiency on Japanese, you can get most of part time jobs that Japanese can get. But if you just arrive to Japan and Japanese level is not high, your choice is very limited.
Part time jobs in japan for international students with low Japanese proficiency are available only around language school or universities which are accepting international students. The companies in these areas know capability of international students. In other areas, they tend to avoid international students as there are so many uncertainties such as legal issues and working ability of international students. Furthermore, since hiring international student involves legal issue, small companies do not have capability to hire international students.

Because of both understanding international students and capability of passing legal hurdle, the available part time jobs in Japan for international students are in big city such as Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, and Kanagawa. Within Tokyo, Shinjuku and Adachi are the area where good numbers of part time jobs for international students are.

What is the best part time jobs in japan for international students can get

Since communication is essential part of work, the best jobs you can get depends on your Japanese ability.

N5(The level that can do introduction)

You will surely have difficult time finding a job. Only jobs that you can get are jobs that do not require communication such as line workers, moving assistance and distributing advertisement pocket tissues on the street. These jobs are not necessary bad as pay is rather higher than working at convenience stores or restaurant. If you speak English, you may be able to get English teaching jobs. However, such jobs often requires college degree. If you do not have a degree, Jobs in Japan for English speakers without degree page may help to identify jobs you can get. If you have a laptop, there are online jobs in Japan for foreigners.

N4(beginner)

With this level, your part time job opportunities get much bigger. You can work at places where it does not require complicated communication such as restaurant, grocery store, construction and convenience stores. If you work at restaurant, you can not expect tips as extra cash. Japan does not have tipping culture. But there are minimum wages that companies have to follow. Thus, you can live on working as waiter or waitress.

N3(Can have conversation at natural speed)

If your Japanese level is at this level, you would be able to get most of part time jobs in japan for international students. Some may hire for office work. But such companies are very rare. The work place that requires bilingual ability hire people at this level except translating jobs.

N2 and above N2(Business level)

You would not have a problem having business discussion. People at this level probably understand Japanese business culture. Thus most of the part time jobs that Japanese can get are also your option. Only part time jobs that you can not get are any jobs relating to sexual things including cabaret. However, webcam modeling jobs with Meiya Tokyo USA is an exception as we are U.S company following US law.

Best part time jobs for international students.

Each jobs have good thing and bad thing. But here are the recommended pat time jobs in Japan for international students.

Izakaya

• It is easy to get this part time jobs as there are many recruitment.
• People whose ages are college age. Thus, it is easy to make friends
• You can get free dinner or lunch

The Izakaya can be very hectic. But you can learn many things such as how business works and how awful drank people are. Also most of Izakaya place offers free food for workers if the working hour is long. this can save some food expense. This is great part time jobs in japan for international student if you want to make new friends outside of school.

Cafe

• Can wear cute cloths.
• Can learn polite Japanese
• Popular with female

The part time job at cafe is not only good because you meet many people but also you can learn polite language. Japanese learn how to properly use polite language working at the place like cafe.

Event staff

• High pay. Also relationship is easy with other worker since it is short term.
• Can participate fun event
• The work varies including inside work, setting up selling booth and distributing advertisement brochures.

Event staff work is high pay. Sometime you see one day 50,000 yen work. But, most of the work involves physical work. The good thing about the event stuff is that you do not need to commit for long time work. Those jobs are usually very short from 1 day to 1 week.

Manga kissa

• The main work is reception, cleaning and tidying up books.
• Late night time is not busy at all. You can read Manga for free while you work.

This part time job is the probably the easiest part time jobs in japan for international student since amount of work is the lowest. It is definately plus that you can read Manga if the place is not busy.

Karaoke

• The work is easy to learn.
• Your work is to deliver drinks, clean and take customers to Karaoke room.

Work at Karaoke place is easier than Izakaya as the number of customers you have to deal with is usually less. Also number of drinks that customers order is less since they go there to sing not drink.

Webcam modeling

• The pay is the highest among the part time job that international students get.
• Time is flexible
• Only female can make decent money
• Can work at home
• Adult related work

Webcamming at your home pays you the highest wage per hour. Some make more than $300 per hour working from home. But it is adult related work. If you speak Japanese, Non-nude webcam jobs are available as well. You can apply it from here.

What is the wage for part time jobs in japan for international students.

The wage varies depending on where you are. The minimum wage is different among each province as well. The wage for part time jobs in japan for international students tends to be higher in urban area simply because of living expense is higher thus minimum wage is higher. Here is the minimum wage per hour for all the provinces.

How you look for part time jobs in japan

If this is the first time to look for part time jobs in Japan, you may be wandering how you can find the part time jobs. There are three ways to find part time jobs in Japan for international students.

Online

• タウンワークネット： https://townwork.net/merit/prc_0059
• AN : https://weban.jp/sat/hub/jk/gaikokujin/
• カタコトバイト:　https://kata-koto.com/
• マイナビバイト：　https://baito.mynavi.jp/kodawari/foreign/
• イーアイディア：　https://www.e-aidem.com/clp/ryugakusei/index.htm
• 二ホンDEバイト：　https://nihondebaito.com/

The good thing about looking for a job online is that you can sort based on your criteria. These sites above have search function to sort part time jobs  for international students.

Free paper

There are free paper for foreigner in urban areas. You can probably find one that is written in your language such as English, Chinese, Korean. Such papers are usually located at grocery stores for your people.

Through friends

It is probably the easiest to get the part time jobs if you know someone who works there. You can know how the work atmosphere and if people are nice.

Conclusion

What is the best part time jobs in Japan for international students depends on what you look for. The part time jobs you can get pretty much depends on your language ability. If you do not speak Japanese at all, online work or webcam modelling would be the best option. Looking for part time jobs can be easy if you know someone already work there or look part time jobs online. If you are planning to stay in Japan for long period, probably it is better to go to a large city rather than a small city as it can be difficult to find jobs if no other foreigners go there.

Happy stay in Japan!