Asakusa Diary - The Staff Blog

I went to tatoo studio, which is located in near Yokohama, with our guest yesterday.
She told me that she had wanted to get it for 10 years.
And now her dream came true!!

I'm also interested in tatoo, so it was a really good experience for me.
At first, she looked soooo nervous...actually, almost crying;)
But after she got tatoo, she looks soooo happy :)

He is the tatoo artist, whose name is Horikiku, and he practiced it
to improve his skill by using his legs.
Horikiku is one of the apprentice of Horiyoshi, the legendary tatoo artist.

We are going to have FAQ on our website.
So, we want to know what you want to ask us before staying at our hostel.
For example, "Can you keep my luggage before the check-in time?″or
"Do you accept a credit card?”

We need your help!!
Thank you☆

Tokyo tower is one of the symbol of Tokyo and was built about 50years ago.
It shows us a different face in every seasons.

Good information!!
If you go there on your birthday, you can get a birthday cake
and can get to the observation deck for free★
Please make sure to bring your ID with you.

More info is available here.

I got an evidence photography that they are goofing off on the video game!!
They are playing “Winning Eleven”, “Tekken”and “Virtua Fighter”.

Actually, it's their lunch time and they're “checking” whether the new controller
works well or not.

I wanted to try but they didn't let me do...

She is our manager, TOMO!!

He is the funkiest staff ,NAOTO!!

Let's meet them at the reception;)

Playstation is available at the reception.
We rent some softs as well and of course you can bring them here.
You can't get bored even though it's rain all the day.
Play games and make friends at the same time ;)

Have you found your flags here?
We are trying to put flags as much as we can but not an enough space...

If we've got a request from you, we'll put yours!!

Can you guess all of them??
Actually, I can't...

Mikoshi (a portable shrine) went through in front of our hostel last night.
Our staff and some our guests carried it over their shoulder.
It must be a good experience for them!

Satoshi wears Happi, traditional coat for the festivals.
That fits him very much ;)

Each blocks have an original designed Happi,
so it is obvious where people lives in that town.

三社祭(Sanja-Festival) starts from today till Sun.
The main event will be on Sunday, though.
Abe and Hiromi are all set for it☆↓↓

The people around the temple are like this.

Hi! Do you remember him??

He stayed here before for more than a month and came back again ;)
So, I don't have to worry about my meals as long as he's here!!
Try some? Then you gotta come and stay with us♪

the paper lantern at our entrance.

Sanja matsuri,it's the biggest of Tokyo's traditional "Three Grand Festivals",
held by the Asakusa Shrine,the huge parade draws over one million people into the streets.
It's gonna be a fantastic weekend from May.18 through 20 with lively traditional mikoshi (portable shrine) processions through the streets of Asakusa,.
Asakusa people are looking forward to this exciting event every year and enjoy it with plenty of drinking, dancing, music and so on.
Don't miss it!!!

Hi, I hope you are checking this page in your country.
Thank you for staying at our hostel.
I hope both of you have arrived safely.

We are waiting for your coming back and please keep studying Japanese;)
Best wishes...

Nat came back from Yokosuka today with lovely souvenior :)
I like to say “Welcome back” to our guests.
Thank you for your thoughtfulness and I'm really happy to meet you again.
Please enjoy your stay this time, too.

You know,we have several annual music festivals in spring and summer.
These two as follows are the biggest festivals in Japan.
One of them is Fuji Rock festival.Jul.27-29
The Chemical Brothers,IGGY & THE STOOGES,KULA SHAKER,SPACE COWBOY,Joss Stone,ASH,
Takky Ishino and more
http://www.smash-uk.com/frf07/about_frf.html

And the other one is Summer Sonic.Tokyo:Aug.11 Osaka:Aug.12
It's held in Tokyo(actually Chiba prefecture.) and Osaka as well.Many famous artists come from all over the world every year.
Black Eyed Peas,ARCTIC MONKEYS ,THE OFFSPRING,KASABIAN,Gwen Stefani,SUM41,TRAVIS,SUGAR RAY and more
http://www.summersonic.com/07/english/index.html

These are small portion of those.
Actually the season of music fes has already come.
My favorites are the events at the Enoshima Samuel Cocking Garden.The entrace fee is only 200yen.Great location and restful events.
FREEDOM SUNSET May.26 I gotta go!! ; )
http://isg-21.com/fs/index.html
http://www.cityfujisawa.ne.jp/kankou/english/point/sumel.html

Let's get out of here!!!!

It's very hot these days and people drink beer a lot!
There is an vending machine at the rounge for beer lovers.
Hiromi is replenishing sold-out stocks for tonight.

Thank you for this beautiful flowers!
Though I love sweets, I love flowers, too ;)

This flowers made our rounge brilliant☆★

Hope to see you guys again in near future...

I went for a dinner with one Taiwanese girl last night.
She stayed at our hostel last month for about a month and moved to an apartment.
We talked about our countries, family and so on.
It was an "girl's talk" and can't tell the details here.

Because I don't know much about her country, I asked her many things.
I still wanna know more about Taiwan, I'll hung out with her again♪

She'll be on our website as a featured guest soon!!

At Senso-ji Temple, we had a ceremony called Takara-no-mai today.
Children pull together a replica of Takarabune (treasure ship) to celebrate
the blessings of Kannon and children's health.

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It was very very crowded with holidaymakers like this↓

We are in golden week right now.

The Golden Week is a collection of four national holidays within seven days.
In combination with well placed weekends, the Golden Week becomes
one of Japan's three busiest holiday seasons,
besides New Year and the Obon week.　(http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2282.html)

You can see some fish made from fabric putting on bars at someone's front doors.
It's called Koinobori ( carp streamers ) and displayed for the health
and future success of their sons.

What about daughters? Don't worrｙ.
　

It was a beautiful day yesterday.
These people were just met here and enjoying their conversation :)