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Sakura group has been started Face book!
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This page is for everybody who's stayed or will stay at Sakura Hotel/Hostel or who's in love with Tokyo and Japan..
Share your stories with us. Find new friends. Help us make Tokyo a legendarily fun city!
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Autumn is the harvest season. There are many festivities held to celebrate the harvest all over Japan. To get more information about autumn festivals click on the following link;
http://www.sakura-hotel-hatagaya.com/cam_autumn.html
Did you know there are three kinds of sake?
Ginjo-shu (high quality sake made from fine well-polished rice)
Junmai-shu (made from 100% pure rice and water)
Honjozo-shu (authentically brewed sake, made from 70% of well-polished rice and brewing alcohol.)
Why don't you try fresh sashimi with a cup of Ginjo-shu ? Try it hot! 
Enjoy "Shoku no aki"!
Washoi Washoi Washoi........
On September 23rd, Mikoshi Matsuri was held at Hatagaya area.
Unfortunately, I could not join coz I worked at Ikebukuro on that day ... TEARS
If you would like to see more photos, please go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/36733168@N04/sets/72157622448919916/
P.S. photos by Kikuchi-san (Sakura House / advertising)
Come & join us! Let's carry a mikoshi portable shrine in the festival on September 23rd.
You can wear Matsuri costume 'Happi'
'Break' at our hotel. You can get free cold drinks after getting sweaty.
You can enjoy many kinds of games, toys, foods and drinks at the stands.
We are looking forward to seeing you and having fun together!
A new friend joins us at café ... adorable antique piano.
If you would like to play the piano, please go ahead and have fun!
When you are thirsty, hungry, angry, lonely, happy...
Pease come to our 'hand-made' café.
This is not a formal luxury café where you can barely breathe, but a home where you can get cozy and take a deep breath.
They are from Barcelona. Recently I watched the movie 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' and I enjoyed Woody Allen's world. I am hoping that I could make a trip to Spain in the near future. 
Rains kept hitting against umbrellas on the night of July 24.
I stopped by Rokugo-dori shopping center's matsuri before going to work.
Yakisoba (fried noodles) ... I was hungry and I bought 2 packs.
I saw people stand in line waiting for something???
Answer : Watagashi (cotton candy)
Konjac (devil's tongue) ...it feels like rubber and tasty
Children are trying to scoop as many small rubber balls as possible.
Children's smiles are shinning in Matsuri, no matter where Matsuri takes place.
Our neighborhood ROKUGO-DORI SHOPPING CENTER will have MATSURI, summer festival, on July 24th and 25th, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The shopping street will be filled with colorful food and toy stalls. Not only children enjoy them but also adults get crazy about them and they become kids again.
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HATAGAYA SHOPPING STREET'S Bon Festival Dance will be held on August 1st and 2nd, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bon odori (dances) was originally a religious ceremony to send ancestral spirits back to the spiritual world, but nowadays bon odori becomes one of the major summer entertainments in local MATSURI and people wearing yukata (light cotton summer kimono) gather and dance together. The movement of dance is soft and like cool sea breeze.
Fireworks are colorful, powerful, glamorous and romantic, but MATSURI is more delicate, sentimental and emotional ... maybe it is because MATSURI respects harmony among people and touches deep inner spiritual world.
The Japan Meteorological Agency announced the end of the rainy season in Kanto region yesterday.
No more rain! I saw a lot of women put up their umbrella for the protection against the sun rather than from the rain in the street
It is time to come to Japan. We will have 'HANABI' fireworks displays almost every weekend, from July to August, and also there are many local summer festivals called 'MATSURI' and outdoor rock festivals, such as FUJI ROCK, SOMMER SONIC and more...
Sumida River Fireworks Festival, July 25, 2009 Sakura Hostel Asakusa will have a party.
http://sumidagawa-hanabi.com/
Our local shopping area 'Nishihara Shotengai' will have summer community festival on July 19.
I went to SOMMER SONIC last year. COLDPLAY was awesome and Allicia Keys was beautiful and sexy. http://www.summersonic.com/
My favorite 'ap bank fes' will be held on July 18, 19 and 20 at Tsumagoi, Shizuoka.
Kazutoshi Sakurai (Mr. Children) that I respect is one of the founders of the fes and the fes brings up environmental issues. http://www.apbank-ecoreso.jp
We will have a workshop of UCHIWA , paper fan, on July 25. Come & join us!
At our hotel, a new cafe called "Sakura Cafe" opens!
Coffee, tea, juice, sweets, pizza, snack foods and more...
I ordered double chocolate latte and apple cake with Ice-cream!
Sweeeet and yuuuuum!!
The cafe serves very tasty coffee, just 190yen!!!
Please taste it:)
We are looking forward to your coming:)
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