Asakusa Diary - The Staff Blog

Big group from France just arrived at Sakura Hostel now.
We hope they will enjoy their trip.
I think I wanna learn some French 'cause I only know a few words.

Here, you can have Japanese meal for a reasonable price.
Naoto had Sara-Udon, a famous local specialty of Nagasaki prefecture, for his lunch today.
You may think japanese food is very expensive but most of meals are around 900yen here.
Juraku restaurant is located 3mins walk from Sakura Hostel.
Why don't you try it instead of fast food?

http://r.gnavi.co.jp/g095625/

Here, you can have very traditional style of Japanese food with music performance.
If you have dinner here, it will cost around 10,000yen.
However, you can have a gorgeous lunch box for the reasonable price, about 3,000yen.
Still expensive? If you have it, you'll change your opinion ;)
More information...
http://www.waentei-kikko.com/index_e.html

How are you guys doing?
We sometimes talk about our guests who stayed at Sakura Hostel before.
You three always looked fun and enjoyed your stay here.
Daniel, thank you for your comments and e-mails.
Grigory, how is your school going?
Hailey, are you gonna coming back to Tokyo?

After finish working, Tomoe and I went for a drink to a pub with our guests.
This pub is located 2 minutes walk from Sakura hostel and
it's a very traditional style one.

There, we can feel like we time-trip to about 40 years ago...I was not existed though.

Thanks to all of our guests, Sakura Hostel was awarded top rated hostels.
The last one we got was top rated for friendliness.
http://www.sakura-hostel.co.jp/blog/2007/01/
This time, we are top rated for overall like atmosphere, facilities, friendliness and location.

We are sure that we 'll keep imoroving our service to our guests.
Once again, thank you soooo much :)

This evening, a cameraman and guy suddenly came to the reception
and asked us strange things.
The guy from Holand said that he was participating in a competion of a tv program.
The contents of his competition is like this.
He needs to survive with no money, no watch for 24 hours in Japan.
Also, he has some tasks that he must do in 24 hours.
For example, make Japanese friends, have dinner with them, go for a drink,
go cinema and find accommodation.
If he can't make it even one thing, he must go back to his country right away.

We had dinner together but I'm not sure whether he could make them all...
I hope he won this game.
How can we know who won this game?

We had a fire drill today.
Four firemen came to teach how to cope with fire.
It was my first time to use a fire extinguisher but it was easy.
What I learned today is that the most important thing is to calm down first
because we have a responsibility for protecting our guests from dangers.

Mauro got many bottles of wine and had a party with the other guests.
It started around 10PM and finished 6AM!
Sounds fun isn't it?
I should have been there...

In the early morning, we had a Tsukiji fish market tour today.
6 of our guests joined this tour and seemed very satisfied.

Look at these big tunas! These are totally frozened.
If you see the people who are bidding on them, you'll be overwhelmed with their vigor.

Fishermans gave our guests some totally fresh tuna.
Our guests and the fishermans had a drink together with Sake and tequila!