Asakusa Diary - The Staff Blog

On 29th was Tomo's birthday!!
★☆Happy, happy birthday☆★
She is our big boss here and always busy like this...↓↓

Oops! It might be her lunch time:P
She is always busy like this↓↓

Just for your information, she loves something crispy&salty, Mexico,
Chage&Aska(Japanese singers), and nice looking guys;)
Just for your information.

In Japan, prices for foods such as dairy products, eggs, breads are rising...
It may happen in your country, too.
My breakfast is breads or and ice cream, so it's not good!!

Actually, everything rise sharply.
Save energy, save oil and be eco lifestyler☆

Happy birthday, Yuri chan!!
Guess how old she is this year!? She might look like a high school girl but she is not!

Today's Yuri chan

Working hard...

Just for your information, she loves chocolate, ice cream, elephants, Masatoshi Fukuyama (Japanese pop singer) and purple. Just for your information.

Mt Fuji is the most famous mountain as the highest one in Japan.
Now, have you ever heard about Mt Takao?
It is getting popular among foreigners because it got three Michelin stars last year☆★☆

There is a big beer garden on the middle of this mountain
where you can enjoy nice view with tasty beer↑↑

From Shinjuku, it takes only 50mins to get there(direct).
It's still in Tokyo, but is surrounded by greenery.
http://www.mt-takao.jp/

Don't worry about going home when you get drunk;)
There are both cable car and lift available.

It opens from the 1st of July and closes 30th of Sep.
More info...http://www.takaotozan.co.jp/takaotozan_eng1/index.htm

Japan survived third-round elimination in first place last night.
They moved ahead to play in the final one and a drawing for group placements
will be hold on 27th of June.

Ebi-chan got a ticket for the game last night and watched it at the stadium.
Though it was rain, he seemed enjoyed himself there:)

I do hope Japan can go to South Africa in 2010!

Night shift staff, Koji is now taking a summer vacation for 10days from yesterday.
He is on the way to Hokkaido by motorcycle.
I hope the weather will be fine and he can get there safety★
Also, I wanna him to get some local sweeeeets from there as a souvenir;P

After Koji comes back, it's Ebi-chan's turn!
He's going to one of my favorite country, Thailand.
I just envy him!

Do you like toys?
We have International Tokyo Toy Show right now at Tokyo big site for today and tomorrow.

A variety of shows are available there and also
you can try their new toys and games for free.
I wanna take a look LEGO's booth and try new items.

How about going there on this weekend as it will be rain?

I am Rumi from Sakura House and just a trainee at Sakura hostel today.
Atmosphere of Sakura Hostel is really open and staffs are so kind!
I am happy to be here and see customers' faces and talk with them.
When I went to other countries like Australia, Fiji, the US, London, Paris, Soul.. etc,
lots of people helped me and had a great time with them.
I'd like people here to feel like me.
Enjoy your stay at Sakura Hostel Asakusa:)

This is our wall clock and tell us the time every hour on the hour by lovely misic♪

I love Totoro(my neighbor Totoro)so much, so I 'm happy to hear that.
Do you like Studio Ghibli animation?
If so, you gotta go to the Ghibli Museum.
It's worth to visit!

But, please do not forget about the booking.
How can we get a ticket?
http://digilander.libero.it/joe.chip/ghibli_e.htm#tickets

More information is available if you click the picture above↑

It's rainy season right now, we have beautiful days these days.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, it started on the 2nd
and will last for a month and half.

But, please don't hesitate to come to Tokyo.
You may have sunny days like today if you are lucky★
The proper moisture is good for your skin;)

A new metro line, Fuku-Toshin line, is officially opened yesterday.
It connects Shibuya and Wako City through Ikebukuro and has 16 stations.

Tokyo is getting smaller and many choices to get to one place.
It will ease our terrible congestion every morning:)
How should I go to Ikebukuro now...by JR or by this new line?

Anyway, I gotta try this!

This morning, I felt a big earthquake when I was at the front desk. It wasn't big enough to seriously damage anything in Tokyo. But, as some of you might know, there have been some people dead, missing or injured because of this earthquake in Miyagi, the area where the focus was.

We received a phone call from a parent of one of our guests staying at the hostel now.
Please don't worry. Tokyo is ok. We are far from the center of the earthquake. We are just deeply sorry for the loss. Hope that next week we won't hear negative news like those of this week.

Sakura group is taking a personnel exchanges now.
Staff of our sister hotels and sakura house work at the other place for a few days
and learn the differnces.
We can give some improvements and take good opinions with each other.

Now, we have Yumi from Sakura Hotel Ikebukuro .
So, let me introduce a little bit her today:)
Yumi had been to 14 countries so far such as Italy, Holland, Vietnum, Peru, Chile and so on.
Her favorite place is Thailand(same as me!), Mexico(same as Tomo!) and Cambodia.

Here's her message for you♪↓↓
Hi, the day after tomorrow will be my last day in Asakusa and I'm waiting for your coming in Ikebukuro;)
I wish you'll have a great time here in Japan!

Night manager, Manager and..... Booze King.
We seldom see three of us behind the counter at the same time ☆

Countries most visited from in May 2008 are....

As Yuri expected, Finland did a close match and came to the number 8!

This month... I guess US will keep the number 1.

Are you interested in plants or already into gardening?
Every three times a year, Sengen shrine(a 5-minute walk from here) has a plant fair.

Around that shrine, there will be about 350 open booths and it saids that
plants you buy there grow very well.

The first two was over but the last one is on the 1st of July.
If you have a time, why don't you take a look?
It will be fun!