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Today in the morning, Our guest from Syria gave me this!

Syrian Tea!

At Sakura Cafe Hatagaya, we are offering World Tea, but it's the first time to drink Syrian Tea for me.

They put much sugar in tea ^^

The tea was very good!

In addition, one of them gave us hand-made cookies right now! 

It's soooo delicious with various spices!

Do Syrian people like giving things to others?

And Maiko tried to steal it back! I surprised her. lol

Speaking of Maiko... I told you that she is a very kind person in the introductory post I wrote about her. Remember? Today she helped a customer from Indonesia to send a letter to a Japanese friend.

And guess what!!!...

He came back with flowers for her to show his appreciation!

What a lovely idea!

You should have seen her face!

3 members including me from Sakura group went to Singapore for 6 days to promote our business last week.

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At first, we exhibited in AFA 2011 (Anime Festival Asia) which is the largest Anime event of Southeast Asia.

Many many people were there, and it was so fun!

Especially we met some our friends who stayed with us before :)

And also we gathered with our guests one night on Japanese Izakaya in there

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We could met our old friends and new friends in Singapore at that time, had lovely time.

This trip was for the business, so we have no enough time to see everything in Singapore, but we could see a Marina Bay sands which is a famous hotel in Japan lately, and of course the Mar-Lion.

And we tried many kind of foods!!!

Thank you for all people who met in Singapore, we enjoyed very much!!

Actually it was my third time to went Singapore, but I would like to visit there again for sure.   

Please come again to Sakura Hotel Hatagaya!

We are looking forward to seeing you guys again.

As I mentioned on this blog,　Ms. Nova Dien(an Indnesian photographer)↓finally reported SAKURA HOTEL group with her blog♪

http://nezdn.wordpress.com/recommended-hotels/japan-sakura-hotel-tokyo/

She travelled all over the world, and stayed many kinds of hotels to write the article with photos.

On this October, she stayed at Sakura Hotel Hatagaya(us), Sakura Hotel Jimbocho, and Sakura House!

I think this is a good opportunity to  connect us tightly (Japan and Indnesia).

If I'll travel to Indnesia in the future, I want to meet her and her nice fellows!

Have a nice day!!

Today 2 guests from Afghanistan checked out Sakura Hotel Hatagaya.

We really miss them...

Because they stayed with us for 4 weeks!!

They studying in Japan (@JICA) for 2 years, Wah!!!

We promised meet again, and we hope it really soon.

Thank you for staying with us :)

Some of the women dressed in traditional African clothes.
They looked so beautiful!

They checked out this morning. We'll miss them.

Thank you very much for your stay!

She is a professional photographer, and freelance travel writer for Indonesian publication.

Nice to meet you, ma'am(^^).

Her traveling blog http://nezdn.wordpress.com/ with more than 100,000 viewers (will be printed in a book in 2012 early 2013).

Her friends also stayed at Sakura Hotel Hatagaya.

Lovery guests went to Kyoto this morning.

Might take good pictures in Kyoto.

Please enjoy your trip, and inform to Indonesian that Japan is great!!

See you again, in the future.

Terima kasih (^^)

Mr.James and Mr.Nathan made pancake for us!!

They are come from British.

Welcome to SAKURA HOTEL HATAGAYA!!

They are guests from Thiland, 11 people (friends each other).

And today they left our hotel....We feel lonely....

They said to us ' KOPPUN-Kah！'(The original thailand letters cannot be used on this article' when they checked out , it means 'thank you' in Thailand language!

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And his name is Mr. Soma, 'Pick-up shuttle bus company's driver'

He often come to Sakura Hotel(Group) to pick-up the foreign guests!

We really appriciate you!   Mr. So-ma san(^^)

【★SPECIAL INFORMATION ABOUT PICK-UP SHUTTLE BUS★】

From Sakura Hotel Hatagaya, to Narita(or Haneda) Airport,

if you are over 6 people, and reserve in advance,

we can charter a shuttle bus when you check-in, or you check-out!!

           *Details: Please ask at reception if you are over 6 people by e-mail!

They marked 11 seals at 'Thailand' on the world map in Sakura Cafe Hatagaya.

So Thailand's land with already fully covered with seals!

Please come to Japan in the future again! Koppun-kah(^^)!

サクラカフェ幡ヶ谷 Event information！★↓

「Fantastic Tap Dance 31th July!」

7月31日（Sun）14:00　START！

His name is Mr Fabio Santomauro, came from Italy.

He always drink a cup of espresso in the morning , he said.

Then, I asked him to taste Sakura Cafe's cuppcino.

We have many kinds of cute coffee cups!

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サクラカフェ幡ヶ谷 Event information！★↓

「Fantastic Tap Dance 31th July!」

7月31日（Sun）14:00　START！

サクラカフェ幡ヶ谷 Please check how to get to Sakura Cafe Hatagaya こちらから↓

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Sakura Cafe Hatagaya (日本語/English)

Sakura Hotel Hatagaya (日本語/English) 

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His name is Matt, an artist from Australia!

When he checked in at Sakura Hotel Hatagaya, he introduced his great work to me!

His designed pictures will be  watched at Design Festa Gallary in Harajuku, for 3 days from Tomorrow.

With very very high technology!

By the way, you can meet many arthists and designers including Matt.

And you don't need any fee to enter the gallary! Amazing! 

Map to Design Festa Gallary

【Access from Sakura Hotel Hatagaya】

Hatagaya→Shinjuku（JR Yamanote Line）→Harajuku, Takeshitadori Exit, walk 10 minutes. 

サクラカフェ幡ヶ谷 Event information！★↓

「Fantastic Tap Dance 31th July!」

7月31日（Sun）14:00　START！

サクラカフェ幡ヶ谷 Please check how to get to Sakura Cafe Hatagaya こちらから↓

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Sakura Cafe Hatagaya (日本語/English)

Sakura Hotel Hatagaya (日本語/English) 

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Darf ich vorstellen? Das ist Janne aus Finnland. Er ist Musiker und Stammgast bei uns im Sakura Hotel Hatagaya. Wir mögen ihn alle, weil er so nett und bescheiden ist, und freuen uns immer, wenn er mal wieder bei uns zu Besuch ist. Und er heißt auch noch so ähnlich wie ich! :)

(This is Janne from Finnland. He's a musician and a frequent guest at Sakura Hotel Hatagaya. We all like him a lot because he's always polite and very modest. We are always happy when he stays with us.)

Janne spricht übrigens 7 Sprachen. Nicht alle fließend, wie er sagt, aber ich bin trotzdem sehr beeindruckt! Neulich hat er kurz mit mir auf Deutsch geredet und ich war total baff wegen seiner guten Aussprache. Normalerweise reden wir aber auf Japanisch oder Englisch.

(Janne speaks 7 languages. Not all of them fluently, as he is eager to add, but I'm impressed nontheless! He talked to me in German a while ago and really surprised me with his good pronounciation. Ususally we talk in English or Japanese though.)

Ich war offenbar die erste im Hotel, mit der er Englisch gesprochen hat. Ai war ganz überrascht, weil sie ihn bis dahin immer nur Japanisch hatte reden hören. Dabei freuen sich im Hotel immer alle über eine Gelegenheit Englisch zu sprechen. :)

(It seems I was the first staff member he talked to in English, by the way. Ai was really surprised when she found out, because she had only ever heard him speak in Japanese. Maybe I should tell him that my co-workers are always glad about an opportunity to use English with our guests.)

Btw, I'm going to Nagoya next week for an extended weekend! I'll tell you about my trip in my next post. Any recommendations for sightseeing or local food??

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SAKURA HOTEL HATAGAYA 
Address: 1-32-3 Hatagaya Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Japan 151-0072 
Phone: +81-3-5330-5250 (03-5330-5250) 
Fax: +81-3-5330-5251 (03-5330-5251) 
URL: http://www.sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com/ 
E-mail: info@sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com 
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hatagaya_hotel 
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One of our guest gave us some present!!!

It is.......

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Candies!!!

From Thailand★

I know these candies, but it seems different with japanese one.

She came from Thailand, and stayed with us for 1 week.

When she came back our hotel last night,

she screamed "So~~~~~~cold!!!!"

I didn't feel cold last night,but she was in Thailand before Japan.

It 42℃ last Friday she said....

I can't believe it!!!

Anyway we'll enjoy these souvenirs♪♪

SAKURA HOTEL HATAGAYA 
Address: 1-32-3 Hatagaya Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Japan 151-0072 
Phone: +81-3-5330-5250 (03-5330-5250) 
Fax: +81-3-5330-5251 (03-5330-5251) 
URL: http://www.sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com/ 
E-mail: info@sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com 
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hatagaya_hotel 
Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/SakuraHotelTokyo 

Nach zwei Monaten, die ich jetzt im Sakura Hotel Hatagaya arbeite, durfte ich heute endlich den ersten deutschen Gast begruessen, der sich seit dem Erdbeben zu uns gewagt hat.

 Das musste ich natuerlich fuer die Nachwelt festhalten. Darf ich vorstellen: Gottlieb! Ich hab ihn vor Aufregung direkt geduzt. Aber er hat's mir hoffentlich nicht uebel genommen.

Miwa und Yukako haben ihm natuerlich gleich freudig erzaehlt, dass ich schon den ganzen Tag auf ihn gewartet hatte. Es hat gut getan mal wieder Deutsch zu reden. Mittlerweile bin ich allerdings so daran gewoehnt, alles auf Japanisch und Englisch zu erklaeren, dass mir ab und zu die Woerter nicht eingefallen sind. Ich konnte mich partout nicht daran erinnern, dass receipt auf Deutsch Quittung heisst. Er hat mir dann netterweise auf die Spruenge geholfen. :)

Er bleibt leider nur zwei Tage bei uns, aber bald kommt ihr ja alle her und sorgt dafuer, dass ich mein Deutsch nicht vergesse. ;)

Heute hatte ich zum ersten Mal seit ich hier arbeite einen deutschen Anrufer am Telefon! Ich hab mich total gefreut mal Deutsch sprechen zu koennen bei der Arbeit! Er hat ein Zimmer reserviert und wir haben uns ein paar Minuten ueber die Lage in Japan unterhalten.

Meine Kolleginnen sind ganz hellhoerig geworden, als sie ploetzlich nicht mehr verstanden haben, was ich gesagt habe. Aber es war schon toll, mal nicht angestrengt zuhoeren zu muessen, um zu verstehen was gesagt wird. :D Telefonieren auf Japanisch faellt mir immer noch etwas schwer, vor allem wenn viele Hintergrundgeraeusche zu hoeren sind.

Momentan haben wir uebrigens auch einen Gast aus der Schweiz. Mit dem konnte ich mich gestern auch schon ein wenig auf Deutsch unterhalten. Danach hatte ich irgendwie den ganzen Tag gute Laune. :)

Also, kommt alle her und redet mit mir! Ich freu mich auf euch!

Anne  

SAKURA HOTEL HATAGAYA
Address: 1-32-3 Hatagaya Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Japan 151-0072
Phone: +81-3-5330-5250 (03-5330-5250)
Fax: +81-3-5330-5251 (03-5330-5251)
URL: http://www.sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com/
E-mail: info@sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hatagaya_hotel
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He is an Italian guest of Sakura Hotel Hatagaya.

Julio san!

 He checked out today, and is going to live an apartment of

 Sakura House↓.

http://www.sakura-house.com/italian/

 He greatly cheers Japan!

Thank you very much-

Grazie mile!!!

SAKURA HOTEL HATAGAYA 
Address: 1-32-3 Hatagaya Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Japan 151-0072 
Phone: +81-3-5330-5250 (03-5330-5250) 
Fax: +81-3-5330-5251 (03-5330-5251) 
URL: http://www.sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com/ 
E-mail: info@sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com 
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hatagaya_hotel 
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A lot of guests from abroad try hard to lose weigh when their check-out date comes close.

Why do you think they do that?

It's not because of Japanese food.

Let me show you the secret.

I'm writing about the weight of their suitcase not bodily weight.

If it exceeds the limitation, they have to pay surcharge.

That's why they are keen to do packing.

I think someone tackle with managing to lose their suitcase somewhere today.

We can help you by lending scale or eating snacks lol.

They are guests from Republic of Malta.[Lest side couple]

They are staying Sakura Hotel Hatagaya for 6 nights.

 A Japanese gentleman on the right side, is our customer of Sakura Hotel Hatagaya for a long time.

They made a conversation, had a coffee together,talk with English.

By the way, Republic of Malta is famous for origin of 'Maltese' dog.

Did you know about it!? 

↑This map is 'welcome map', settled in Sakura Cafe Hatagaya [is in Sakura Hotel Hatagaya].

Travelers put a seal on their country.

They put a seal on Republic of Malta.

How about to talk with people from all over the world at Sakura Cafe Hatagaya!?

SAKURA HOTEL HATAGAYA 
Address: 1-32-3 Hatagaya Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Japan 151-0072 
Phone: +81-3-5330-5250 (03-5330-5250) 
Fax: +81-3-5330-5251 (03-5330-5251) 
URL: http://www.sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com/ 
E-mail: info@sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com 
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hatagaya_hotel 
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sakura-Hotel-Hostel-in-Tokyo-Japan/220350084985 

He is a pianist, Koichiro Honda.

He often comes to Sakura Cafe, to enjoy playing the piano.

Today's music is made by Debussy. The tune is 'Estampes'.

If you meet him in sakura hotel, how about to talk with him,

and request your favorite song??

SAKURA HOTEL HATAGAYA 
Address: 1-32-3 Hatagaya Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Japan 151-0072 
Phone: +81-3-5330-5250 (03-5330-5250) 
Fax: +81-3-5330-5251 (03-5330-5251) 
URL: http://www.sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com/ 
E-mail: info@sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com 
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hatagaya_hotel 
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sakura-Hotel-Hostel-in-Tokyo-Japan/220350084985 

Yesterday, there was an great ivent, 'SHODO PERFORMANCE'

at Sakura Cafe Hatagaya.

 Japanese SHODO girls performed with big paper and blashes

(as like art blash).

This is the SHODO GIRLDS' performance video!　↓

http://www.youtube.com/user/sakuracafehata

Many foreigners joined this event.

They practiced many times translate their name in Japanese name,

as like, Ailine is 愛鈴（Bell of love).

Enjoying to write Japanese KANJI　漢字　.

One TV staff (NTV) came to take their film and photoes. So this is an interview.

By the way,

Next SHODO ivent will be on Jan. 29th 2011 at Sakura Cafe Hatagaya.

How about to join it with us!? 

HARD ROCK&HEAVY METAL CAFE  in Tokyo at Sakura Hotel Hatagaya

I had rock'n'roll party at Sakura cafe last night 

Beers,Sake,losts of foods and Rock'n'Roll music~~~~

Me and my rock friends were raised in the old story

Also my band played BON JOVI,KISS,QUEEN,DEF LEPPARD songs

We all had a great time......until midnight

Nory

When I get order at cafe,guest said 'Will you heat the beer up??'

I was so surprised!!

Have you tried hot beer??

He is from Ukraine♪Mr.Tur chyn wolodymyr!

He used to drink with hot beer with honey.

Actually I prefet cold one lol,,but it good for winter time!

This is one of traditional dish in England.

Our guest Ms Emma and Chris made it for us!!

Cooking and drinking Wine♪

15-20min baked

Tasty and easy!

Here's a picture I got yesterday.

They came to Japan from Malaysia and did check-in yesterday.

She is 11 months of age.

We welcome many families including small children.

Here's another picture of the family who already done check-out.

I'm writing about guests with family, but we welcome those who travel alone, travel with friends, travel with lovers and travel on business as well :)

I went to KYOTO on Nov. 5th 2010!

These are my memory photoes.

★★★　TEMPLES　ＡＮＤ　ＲＯＯＤＳ　☆☆☆

 KINKAKUJI Temple

YASAKA SHRINE

KOUTOUIN  and  NENE-NO-MICHI (NENE'S ROAD)

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LUNCH BOX best 2 in KYOTO.

 Delicious potatp chips (soysorce taste) and NISHIN( herring)soba .

★★★　ＳＰＥCIAL　☆☆☆

 MY BEST RECOMENDATION IS,  'KYOTO CALEIDOSCOPE MUSIUM'

 京都万華鏡美術館

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I choosed the stones as I like.

She is the teacher (long hair lady).

Not only to look many kinds of kaleidoscope, but also we can make our own kaleidoscope,  among 350 yen with 1900 yen.

How about to make your own suvenior for your memory of travel??

Kyoto has many kinds of craft shop like it!

You can get many informations for sightseeing at JR KYOTO STATION information counter.

Julia-san gave me beautiful yellow flower!!

 It's always nice to have flowersand I believe yellow color brings good luck!

It made my so happy, and made my day!

Thank you Julia-san!!

Today we have 3 filipino-American guests :)

message from our guests:

Hi from Willerness!

Enjoying our stay so far!

Can't wait to rock out in Japan!

Thanks to Sakura hotel hatagata!

Thasnk you very much!

Miguel, Allan, and Mau!!

They are eating Japanese obentou(box lunch) now...

There is popular Japanese box lunch store 3minutes from our hotel.

(only to go survice)

You can have anything you want!

Have a nice day!

We welcomed group guests (16 guests) from Canada the day before yesterday.

And they checked out this morning.

Here's the picture we took then.

Safe trip!!

Now the typhoon is approaching. And Tokyo will be hit by big wind and heavy rain this evening.

So, I'd just like to say "Safe trip!" too (for me)  lol.

Hello, everybody!!

On 30th Oct, we're going to do Friendship Party in Sakuara Cafe!

http://sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com/hotel_event.php

TIme: 18:00 to 20:00

Fee: Participants: 1,600 yen (chose 3 beers and 2 snacks, usually it costs 2,300 yen.)

These are pictures on 16th Oct. (last time).

13 people gathered to talk with each others.

How about to drink with us??

We are welcome to everybody!!        

Sushi party held on Today, Oct 23rd!

Guests tried to make this↓　together!

These are pictures for all of our memories to learn Japanese culture!!

Please join this event again!

Next is , on 20th Nov. 2010!!!

Charge is only 500 yen!! Fantastic!!

Why not making Sushi with us!?

More Info↓

http://www.sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com/pdf/hata20101023.pdf

Ai (reception wearing green costume ) is a good teacher!!

See you again--!

We will have a Friendship Party this evening (from 5pm to 8pm) at Sakura Cafe Hatagaya.

Entrance fee is 1,000 yen. We offer you 3 beers (or soft drinks) and appetizers (otsumami in Japanese).

Residents in Sakura House and Guests at Sakura Hotel is expected to come.

Here's the picture taken on 2nd of October, 2010 (the date previous Friendship Party is held).

 Guest from Italy his name is Alessio

He's got a full of tatto on his body!!! Very cool guy!

He wanted a Japanese writing on his hand and he told me that

 " I want to get it today right now!

I'm going back to Italy tomorrow! Could you help me to find a place to put a tattoo near by? "

I called several places but most of them needed a reservation.....

At last I founded in Shibuya!

When he came back....

He got a  name on his hand !  " Alessio, アレシオ "  Japanese writing KATAKANA

He realy liked it! 

I was glad that he was willing for that!

Have a nice flight to Italy see you again!

ゲストのアレシオさん

全身刺青だらけでいきなり今日中に日本語の刺青を入れたいとの事.....

数ヶ所電話してやっと渋谷で当日予約で見付けました?

彼が帰って来たら手に " アレシオ "

写真は引き伸ばしてあるのでよくは見えませんが鮮明な印刷のようでパーフェクトな出来あがり！

本人は大変喜んでいて " 君が居なければ今日入れることが出来なかったよ?"

と感謝をされました?

なので写真を撮ろうよ！で

私も左腕に☆Rock Star と刺青（油性マジック）をいれちゃいました?（笑）

We started to ask our guests

"Do you mind if I get a picture of you?"

when they do check-out.

We upload image data on our fanpage on Facebook so that they can download it.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=25409&id=220350084985

FYI, we have also have a discussion board on Facebook for you to leave useful information for our future guests!

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=220350084985&topic=15125

Your contribution would be deeply appreciated.

He is Mr Micheal san who from Australia.

He has stayed our hotel some times.

It is nice to see you again!!

Welcome to Sakura Hotel Hatagaya!

They 've just arrived here from Ghana.

You must be tired...

Take a good rest tonight.

Good night and Enjoy your stay!

Have you ever go to Tokyo Disney Resort??

You know, It's a most biggest theme park in Japan.

This is the website

http://www.tokyodisneyresort.co.jp/index_e.html

''Search Hidden Mickey" is a popular play in TDR.

Like them↓

It's so difficult to find it, because the park is so wide.But once you find it, you might be greatly pleased!

Hidden Mickey was made by casts(means staff of TDR), during to create the buildings, paintings, and  so on.Originally, for their hobby.

Can you find them !?

P.S: The number of serched Mikky is ↓

Miwa =1, (do my best in the next time!)

Keiko and Sakura =3, (good job!)

 Ai =over 10!! (Excellent!! You can guide where is it! please guide me----)

Enjoy your Tokyo trip!!

【Access guide】about 45 minutes from Hotel.

Sakura Hotel Hatagaya (幡ヶ谷Hatagaya)→ (市ヶ谷Ichigaya)=10 minutes by Keio New Line.

Ichigaya→（新木場Shinkiba)=20 minutes by Yurakucho Line.

Shinkiba→(舞浜Maihama)=8 minutes by Keiyo Line.

Maihama is close to TDR!

She is a guest of Sakura Hotel Hatagaya, Sophie-san.

Yesterday, on August 14th, there was a fireworks in Tokyo bay.

Her yukata was a present from her boyfriend!

She looks so pretty--!!

Keiko, a reception helped to wear it for her.

So, she gave us a candy box of France.

Thank you Sophie-san!!

We wish your happy days in Tokyo!

Hello, everybody.

Do you know

DESIGN　FESTA??

 http://www.designfesta.com/index.html

This is one of the biggest art event in Tokyo.

 It is held on 2 times in May and November.

And many people from many contries, often join this event.

★For whom to sell your original item,

★★For whom to think that ' what's that!?',

★★★For whom to be interestead in many un-known place！！

Once you go there, you'll make fun of it!

You might find many new-born artists!!

 Enjoy your Tokyo trip!!

I made original rooibos tea with our guests from South africa♪

Left：Iced rooibos tea with juice and mint

Right:Hot lemon and honey tea

Hello- again!

Mr.David come back our hotel!!!

This is third time to stay Sakura hotel hatagaya♪

He loves Ramen♪ he knows good ramen shop!

See you again in December-!

We are SUPER ROCK'N ROLLER! ' MY PENIS ' 

' Hello to all in Tokyo! The staff at Suakura Hotel are top notch! the best!! Please come and stay here for a wonderful experience. Thank you so much for your hospitality. All of us look forward to coming here again! The music scene is so professional in Tokyo.  Rock On!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

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They are staying our hotel 19 nights to hold their music live in Tokyo. 

←Their live schedule is on the back-side of the leader's t-shirts!

Please check our website bellow↓

http://www.mypenisrocks.asia

We Love Rocks!!

Rory is a member??

Today, Chofu fireworks held on!

Many guest of Sakura Hotel Hatagaya went to watch the great fireworks!

Because it's easy to reach there from this hotel!

Access:

Hatagaya→Keio-Tamagawa station (by Keio-new line to Sasazuka, and transfer to Keio Line)

It takes 30 minutes.

There are many fireworks in Tokyo, on July and August.

http://www.sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com/fireworks2010.html

Enjoy your tokyo life!

Today, let me introduce our guest.

He is Mickey.

He lived in Japan (Niigata prefecture) for one year.

So, he can speak Japanese very well. He can write some Kanji, too!

If you speak a little Japanese, please feel free to use it.

Hello! / Salam!

My name is Ai. / Ana Esmi Ai.

See you! / Ela Ellka !

This is Arabic.

Mr .ABD (our guest) taught me♪

Thank you--!!!

THEY ARE FROM FRANCE.

THE BOY IS MY NEW FRIEND!

HE LOVES POKEMON SO MUCH!

I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU NEXT WEEK AGAIN!!

Last night, He asked me that how do you rate Monday roppongi night on a scale of 1 to 10?

well......

......

.....

2.5!

Nonetheless, he enjoyed last night.

Sakura Hotel Hatagaya very easy and friendly place.

Staff are more than happy to help you, especially if you are a party Go'er like me!

                                                                     WESLEY

Thank you for your comment!

Do you like Japanese food?

The ranking's top three Japanese restaurant...

No.1 Sushi

No.2 Ramen

No.3 Teppan Yaki

We have Sushi and Ramen map at front desk!

Today's guests from Australia like Teppanyaki.

They went to the nice  Teppan yaki restaurant for their last night.

"SAYA" in Shinjuku (English okey)

03-3355-0310

You can try Japanese Teppanyaki!

Thank you very much Mr.Pagram and Ms.Jansson.

I'll be seeing you again!!

They are american guest, Mr. Jeremy and Isamu-kun (6 years old).

Isamu-kun made these cute teruteru bouzu!

He learned how to make it, and the story of  Teruteru-bouzu in an elementary school near Hatagaya.　He told the story to his father.

I decorated them in the cafe↓　　

Today is clowdy all day.

We wish the weather will be better during their trip!

                                    She is our guest and Great Jazz singer!!

                                            http://www.hmvp.net/J2010/index.html

                                      Miwa went to her concert, it was great stage!

                                           Every year she has staying with us.

                                          See you next year. and miss you a lot!!!

A full year has passed since we went to Fukagawa with our guests.

Here's the picuture I took then.

You can read the blog I wrote about it.

http://www.sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com/blog/2009/08/fukagawa.html

It's quiz time!

Do you think how much these Japanese items?

The answer is.........

100 yen !!!

In Japan, 100 yen shops or one-coin shops, similar to dollar stores in the United States and pound shops in the U.K., are commonly known as "hyakkin".

daiso is the most popular 100 yen shop in Japan.

There is a nearest daiso in Harajuku(Takeshita street).

They have online store also.

http://www.daisojapan.com/

Il s'appelle Anthony.

Il est patisier.

Il peut parler le japonais un peu.

Faites comme chez vous!

How tall they are!

Am I a minimum person in the world??

They are our guests from USA.

From the left side,Tom-san(194CM), Patrick-san(193CM), Satori-san(180CM), and Dylan-san(178CM), and me(153CM)　:)

Why Japanese people are so short in the world?? Specially me!

                                         Our guest gave us beautiful Sushi♪

                She is going to Sushi school !!!Every day she can eat them...envy her!

      So tasty!!!

      Thank you-----!!

This morning, one of our Japanese guests told me he liked our hotel and would revisit us and stay here again.

Actually, there are many Japanese guests who revisit here.

But unlike foreign guests, most of them never mention their intention of revisit here.

In Japan, politeness is often considered more important than friendliness,

and that makes casual talks between staff and guests bit uncommon.

So, I am heartend up by his rather rare frankness about his revisit. :-)

She is our customer, Kim Hae Yeon- san!

Do you know her??

She is a Korean Jazz singer. And she always stay in Sakura Hotel Hatagaya every year, from about 10 years ago! 

Her jazz live was held on 20th and 21st of Jun.2010.

I went to listen her music on 2oth Jun, to Hibiya Kokaido!

Her soulful voice moved me, and she shined and looks so happy!

I gave this small  bouquet to her!

Thank you Kim-san.  We hope your success for about your great job and your life!

We welcome guests from Saudi Arabia today.

They have a nice camera made in Japan.

They asked me to take a photo by their camera.

It took a little time to find where shutter is, so they are skeptical about the fact that I'm Japanese...

Hey, You all!                                                                                                       

 I'm camel from Darwin, Northern part  of Australia. Kind Mr & Ms. Smith took me to Japan for my first time.

Now, I decided to stay here for a while until someone will take me  somewhere in the world.

 My previous owner Mr &Ms. Smith also brought chocolate, and ginger tea from Indonesia.

How sweet they are!

They jusy left go to Tsukiji marcket, and going back home. It was little bit sad to farewell to them, but I'm trilled to meet many people from all over the world.

 We are waiting for new friend to join us...

I got warm greeting e-mail from Stenfelt-san from Sweden.

He lead his group and stayed with us on this April .I was surprised how he is fluent in his Japanese skill. I felt like I was talking with native Japanese.

I will defenetly visit sweden for my next vacation and see Stenfelt -san and his lovely wife.

Stenfelt-san,

Please take a good care of your wife and yourself , and I'm hopeing I can see you in Sweden soon! Have a wonderful summer.

Welcome to tokyo and enjoy your hokiday in the nice and lovery sakura hotel!

We love it!

Hello!

Mr.Micheal  from Switzerland who has stayed our hotel 2 weeks.

Yesterday, he gave me chocolate♪

Today I gave him Japanese sweets(rice cake) and tea!

I asked some question about Japan.

1,Why did you choose Japan?

→Because, my friend live in Japan and I am interested in Asia.

2,This is Japanese traditional sweets(rice cake).   What is famous food in your country?

→Cheese and chocolate.

3,What is difference between Japan and your country?

→Too many people in Shinjuku station and everybody has different hair style!!

Thank you!

It was a very enjoyable stay, the staff weere all very helpful and very kind.

Tokyo is a one of a king city.

Amazing!

I got a mail from our guest from Spain who stayed with us last summer.

He had a nice camera with him and took tons of photos during his stay.

After coming back to Spain, he created great movie (actually tons of photos).

He sent the URL of it to me, and I'd just like to share it.

http://www.vimeo.com/6161847

Here's the picture I took this morning.

What do you think is there in a huge box?

The answer is a foldable bike.

They said to me "We plan to go to Mt. Fuji".

I think today is a good day to enjoy cycling

Thank you for staying with us!

Beautiful smiles :)

Today, I'd like to share the Homepage of our guest.

She told us that she is an artist and the URL of her homepage yesterday.

Here's the URL

http://www.mickeybond.com/index.php

During your stay, please feel free to talk to us. We're all ears.

★★★Hello  Everybody!★★★

This is an ivent from Sakura Hotel Group!

Please upload your best photo of Tokyo/ Japan.

To Sakura Hostel or Sakura Hotel 'facebook ' fan page (serch sakura hotel).

We will deside the winner by numbers of 'like'. (in a couple of month)

Our first prize is 'free stay for one night at Sakura Hotel/Hostel (you can choose the acommodation) .

 ★★★Join to the contest with your favorite special photo of Tokyo!★★★

I guess it's first time for us to upload text in Italian.

"Ciao sono Giorgio e sono arrivato ora ed 

ho conosciuto questo simpatico ragazoo 

che mi sta aiutando a risolvere alcuni problemi 

per andare vicino fuji yama la citta di tokio 

e forte pulita e le persone sono amichevoli"

The above is message from Signor. Giorgio.

He just arrived this morning without a reservation.

Unfortunately, we are fully booked tonogiht.

He is plannning to go to Mt. Fuji, Kyoto, Nara and so on.

After that, he is coming back to Tokyo and decided to stay with us next week.

Have fun! & See you soon!

They are cute guests from Germany, Diana-san and Marco-san ♪ Nice to meet you--!   

Their suvenior, Betty is so cute♪ 

They love Japanese people, and town, and enjoyed for shopping around Harajuku station!

Diana-san bought many clothings at Harajuku, and watched some performances and fasioned people at Yoyogi Park, like this.

(*this picture is from http://jp.makezine.com/.)

They planned to stay at Kyoto, and serched the nice hotel, so  I introduced some hotels&hostels in Kyoto.

Ikoi-no-ie, Kyoto, is one of the nice hotel in Kyoto.

http://www.ikoi-no-ie.com/

These are blochers of Hotels in Kyoto, we always stock for guests!

If you want to stay Kyoto, Osaka, or other hotels, we will help you!

Anytime, please ask to reception!

Enjoy your trip!

A lot of guests from abroad try hard to lose weigh when their check-out date comes close.

Why do you think they do that?

It's not because of Japanese food.

Let me show you the secret.

I'm writing about the weight of their suitcase not bodily weight.

If it exceeds the limitation, they have to pay surcharge.

That's why they are keen to do packing.

I think someone tackle with managing to lose their suitcase somewhere today.

We can help you by lending scale or eating snacks lol.

Have you ever made  "origami crane"?

This is the picture.

Almost all Japanese can make this easily.

Yesterday, 2 british guests, Kim-san and Carl-san find this crane on the front counter, and asked me, "do you know how to make this?".

"Sure! I can make it!"

They wanted to make it, so I showed how to make it.

During this lesson, a german guest, Matthias-san, joined the lesson!

They practiced many times, created some cranes to remember the way.

And.....

They did it!!

We all joyed of success. Bravoooooo!

        Next, why don't you teach origami crane with your family and friends??

        This how to make origami crane.(from website)

        http://折り紙の折り方.com/2007/10/post_6.html

About an hour ago, our guests who have just done check-out made me surprised.

They told me that many airports in Europe are shut down because of the eruption in Iceland.

First, I thought that they were just kidding.

But they had serious expressions..

I found the article about it on website.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8621444.stm

Volcanic ashes covered northwest part of Europe.

The particles in them have possibilities to damage airplanes' engines.

That's why many airports in Europe are forced to be shut down and many flights are forced to be cancelled.

I hope they could flight back their home (France) earlier and safely.

Hatagaya staff like to eat all the time.

Specially GIRLS!! 

Today we got 160 g candies from our kindly guest!!

Yummy, yummy!

CANDY WANTED!!!

One of guest gave us the lovely handcraft gift from Israel.

Around the reception desk, we have full of gifts from all over the world which our guest brought from home to give us.

↑　Some of you alrady know him. He always helps us to notice guests are at receprtion desk while we are not there. He is originally from Thailand. Now he became one of the most popular in this neighborhood.

↓　From Switzerland

We are waiting for our new buddy! If you have a littlle empty space in your suitcase ro backpack, bring us a new friend pleeeeeeeease!

Have you ever seen the movie, the Pirates of the Caribbean?
I met Jack Spallow at our Hotel...!
He is a little shy boy.
He is very cute and much more mature than I thought.
He is....8 years old.

His name is David who was born in England and grew up in Japan,
He loves watching movies, especially the Pirates of the Caribbean!

He was acting a part of the movie story for us 

I got fascinated with his acting.....!!
So I asked him
「Will you marry me someday?」
「Yes.」He say coyly....!

We did `pinky swear'
As I left, he gave me an unforgettable massage. :
`Don't say good bye, today is our start
...........................not care about the age difference??
It was nice to see you my future lover♪'

I like it!

As Hirotaka wrote the information, we held a workshop to make a Japanese Handmade craft, and watch&listen a Shamisen parformance on March 20th,2010↓

8 foreign guests, joined this workshop, and they become good creaters!

They can choose the design of cloth, color of sred and string, and beads for theirselves.

I assisted the guests when they get in a bind.

Shogo (rightside in this picture) translated teacher's explanation from JP into EN.

Of course, I assist the guests, too.

These girls made 2 and 3 kinds! For their friends's suvenior.

Good job!

After the workshop, we took a break with Japanese cake and drinks.

They ordered Café　menu (including original drink of Sakura Café !)

http://www.sakura-cafe.asia/hatagaya/menu/world-tea.php

They enjoyed to create their own suvenior, and waching& hearing the Samisen parformance!

Shamisen player played soulfully!

Please join this workshop next time! （*^_^*）

自分だけの手作りの物を作るのは好きですか？

私は好きです。

スタッフの大敬（ひろたか）さんが既にブログに書きましたが、

3月20日14時から和ストラップ作り＆三味線演奏会をサクラホテル幡ヶ谷のカフェ内で行いました♪

女性の先生の指導の元、（スタッフの落合さん通訳）、お客様はまず自分で好きな布や糸、ビーズを選んで、自分用や友人用に可愛いストラップを作りました。生地を選ぶところから、ワクワクが伝わって来ました。

コツをつかんで、時間内に3つも作る、上手な方もいらっしゃいました★

ストラップ作りの後はティータイムで、和菓子とカフェのドリンクで振る舞いました。

桜餅は大好評でした。

ティータイムの後は、三味線演奏会。

外国のお客様はその独特なメロディや音に聞き入ってらっしゃいました。

今回は有名な青森のじょんがら節等5曲程演奏して頂きました。

どんなストーリーがあるの？との質問も飛び、LOVE　STORYだったり、伴奏（本来唄付き）だったり、さまざまです、との答えに、スタッフも勉強になりました。

またこのような楽しいイベントを開きたいと思います♪

He is one of our guest, Mr. David from Australia!

He loves Japan , coming to Japan many times, and also loves Karaoke, too!

Miwa and Ai (Staff) went to Karaoke Box in Hatagaya, on Fev.17.

We(staff) also loves Karaoke, and spent very pleasant time with him.

Singing many songs, imitate with the singer, playing tambalins to beat the rism is very pleasant !

Why don't you go to Karaoke with us !(^^)!?

Nice to see you again!

Cute girls come back Sakura Hotel Hatagaya from Italy.

Fran & Dani

They are Costume Queen!!

Last year , they won at costume competition in Italy!!

Look how they are very cute & cool !!!

Anyway , I am happy to meet them again!