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Hi, everyone.

I'm new trainee, Masaru.

I started working here, Sakura Hotel Hatagaya from last week, and I noticed that there are lots of guests speaking Japanese beyond expectation.

Some speak greeting words like 'KONNICHIWA' and some speak like '~~SHITAINDESUKEDO...' (I would like to do ~~)

I was teaching Japanese language in India and South Korea

So I am really happy hearing foreigners speaking Japanese!!

Do not be anxious if you do not speak Japanese.

We have English, Arabic, Korean speakers.

It's me who speaks Korean.

And Arabic speaker is Mr Mohamed!!

Why don't you come and feel international atmosphere at Sakura cafe Hatagaya ?

Hi. I'm Kaz, a new staff of SAKURA HOTEL. I consider myself that

I'm quite familiar to streets in Tokyo area, having an experience

of a taxi driver. If you would like to go out by taxi with the shortest way

and the lowest fare, I might be able to help you such as the best way 

to talk to a taxi driver. I'm looking forward to seeing you soon.

Hello~ I'm Mikiko!! Nice to meet you~!!

I 've just started working at Sakura Hotel:)

Let me introduce myself a little bit! I'm from Shizuoka prefecture, which is famous for Mt.Fuji, green tea and eels...haha!!

I've stayed in SanDiego (USA) for a year, Seoul (S.Korea) for a year and other countries for studying or working holiday!!  I LOVE to travel around the world!!

I'm looking forward to seeing you and talking a lot at Sakura hotel or Sakura cafe soon:)

Hello, all. This is Tamura.

I went to Mt. Fuji and took a good photo as below...

 

...No. I lied. It is actually a photo of the postage stamp.

( Mt. Fuji is closed this season for your reference.)

 

Sometimes, our hotel guests come to the front desk and ask "What 

do you recommend I buy for Japanese souvenir?"

Every time,  I tried my best to meet their request, after asking what 

type of souvenir they are looking for. But, the gifts they want should 

basically be "very Japanese", "not too expensive" 

and "not too heavy".

 

The other day, when I found a postage stamp sheet in my 

house, I noticed that these can be one of the best souvenirs from Japan!"

 

First, they are mostly "very Japanese". Some of them are

serialized, if popular. So, good for collectors.

 

Second, they are "not expensive".

 

What's more, they are all "lightweight". Could be bought even

piece by piece.

 

Additional advantage is that you can buy them at the post

office anywhere in Japan. Actually our Sakura Hotel Hatagaya

and Sakura Hotel Ikebukuro are located right behind the

post offices. Sakura Hotel Jimbocho & Sakura Hostel Asakusa are within walking distance from the nearest post offices, too.

So from now on, I, with confidence, recommend Japanese postage stamps  to our guest as one of their choice for the souvenirs.

 

By the way, postage stamps are never without postcards. At Sakura hotels, we sell post cards of Tohoku Bokujo↓↓. 

They shows rare vegetable flowers. I recommend these post cards, 

too ↓↓.

Winter time

In Disney land

Anne's birthday!

 

↓↓ No1 hotel in tokyo ↓↓

Whoa! What a great picture no?  I've always wished I could ride a horse...like him...

He sure rides like a cowboy, oh wait, he IS a cowboy!!!

And, I am proud to say, he is our new staff!

His name is Nao, he has lived in north of Queensland,Australia for 2 years working as a horse riding instructor.  Obviously he rides horses like a champion,which already makes him so cool.

However, when he catches you with his big lovely smile, you would want to get to know him better.

Things he would like you to see in Japan is...

Our big TOKYO!  This city has so many faces.  Each area has its own uniqueness.

Our food!  Please taste the REAL Japanese food!

Our culture.  Meet our people, get to know us, and feel our culture!

Well, I asked him 5 words to describe himself.  He listed....

Cowboy, Energetic, Big(he is so tall!), Adventurous, and Crazy(in a good way)!!!

At Sakura Hotel Hatagaya, he will welcome you with a big smile and a big heart.

Come say hi to Nao!

Hello.

My name is Riko Oshima .(Left side)

I just sarted to work here in Sakura Hotel Hatagaya from today.

Before I came here,I was in Sakura Hotel Jimbocho.

Let me introduce myself ;)

I was born in Hiratsuka city .

here are the things that I like to do .

I love traveling ,watching movies,and CATS.

Last Febuary I went to 6 countries in Europe.

Most favorite city was Amsterdam!!!!! 

It was awesome;)

and also in Asia area ,love Thailand .

About the movies,I love Forrest gump;)

RUN FORREST RUN!

Ｉ really love to talk any topics  with many people.

so please come to talk with me in Sakura Hotel ,Cafe Hatagaya !

These are national flags of today's guests countries.

We have almost all countries' but some countries are not ready.

So I am triyng to remake national flag cards.

These sheets cover 195 countries over the world.

In addition I made Hongkong,Macau,South Sudan(became independent recently),

Palestine and Kosovo.

Myanmar has changes it's flag design on Oct.2010.

Africa occupies one fourth of 200 countries.

There are 56 countries in the continent.

How many countries have you ever been to?

Hello !!

My name is Makiko Matsumoto, I'm new staff here at Sakura Hotel Hatagaya!

（Now I'm writing this from Miwa's account.)

I love traveling, eating, talking with people !

I'm looking forward to meeting people from around the world!

Here are the photos I took in New York this March.

 【Central Park】 SAKURA is already bloomed. Some people enjoyed eating lunch watching sakura, like HANAMI in Japan !

After the musical "RENT".   It was very moving.　Have you ever seen it?

Let me talk about New York more next time...!

See you again!

Hello, everybody, I am Sariko. I've been working Sakura Hotel for 5years.

Here is my information. If you visit Japan, talk to me!

Name: Sariko 
Hometown: Tokyo 
Language: Japanese, English 
Countries visited: Canada, United States, Korea, Indonesia(Bali Island), Costa Rica, France, Spain. India, Jordan, and Thailand!
I like....................... Travel, shopping, hang out with friends, beer, chocolate, sweets, French bread, 
park, river, drive, cherry blossom, shining sunny. 
My memorable episode: When I went to Death Valley national park in west coast of United States, I felt like world is mine. The nature in there is just beautiful and marvelous!!
My favorite movie: Lost in translation, Virgin suicides, Devil's wear Prada, Roman holiday, 
Porco Rosso, Ruokala Lokki(seagal diner). 
Message: I promise you to have great time in Sakura Hotel Ikebukuro. Come and join us!!

Hello, everybody!

Today, we have big news. Our home page is renewal open.

How do you think?

We have many different contents on our HP.

Please check check!!

http://www.sakura-hotel.co.jp/

Nice to meet you everyone.

My name is Shinichi Tsda. Please call me 'SHIN'

I started to wark at Sakura Hotel Hatagaya from March 2012!!

I hope I wanna meet many people and talking.

Please come Sakura Hotel Hatagaya for meeting Meeeee!!!

I'm looking forward to meeting you!!

This is my last working day in Hatagaya today.

I've working at Sakura Hotel Hatagaya for a year but will work at Sakura Hotel Ikebukuro from tomorrow in the personnel reshuffle.

Thank you very much for all of your kindness!!

I miss all staff in Hatagaya...

This is my thank you gift for all of staff in Hatagaya.

Please drop by Ikebukuro if you come to this area.

See you soon!!!

So we had some fun with it...

The last picture is Ai by the way. XD

There was another box as well. I wonder what we'll use them for.

I will let you know when I find out! ^^

So today I would like to show you some of my favorite photos we took during the last year. There are so many, that I had a hard time choosing. LOL
Here we go!

I'm sure we'll take many many photos this year as well. ^^

I'm Anne from Germany and have been living in Japan since February 2011. I started working at Sakura Hotel Hatagaya in March 2011.

I have been to Japan as an exchange student before and fell in love with the country. I have met so many great people here, who make Japan my second home.

Two of my favorite places in Japan are Kamakura and the Fuji Five Lakes. I love to go there whenever I can.

I love Japanese and Italian food. I could eat Okonomiyaki, Ramen or Pasta everyday. Oh, and I eat way too many sweets for my own good, but I just can't resist all the delicious cakes and deserts that are sold at every corner here in Japan. ^^;

  My hobbies are hoopdance, going to Jazz clubs, eating out and sleeping.

I usually don't sleep at work though. ;)

Since I started working at Sakura Hotel Hatagaya, the number of countries I would like to visit has  

increased dramatically, because we have so many guests from all around the world, who

tell us about their home countries. 

Today, I'll introduce myself.

It seems like too late to do that :) since I've work here almost a year now.

My name is Maiko Sato.

I was born in Taito-ku, Tokyo.

Taito-ku is a downtown side of Tokyo. There are famous temple Senso-ji.

Have you ever been there?? I love my hometown very much.

I love travelling, see musicals, and  fluffy things!!

The best country that I ever been is Canada!!

I went to there 4 times and lived for one year from 2009.

So Canada is my 2nd hometown :)

My favorite is "Mamma mia!" and "Cats"

And this is my lovely....Pig!!!

Please say hello to me if you have a chance.

Thank you and I look forward to seeing you near future!!

Hi, everyone. It is new from an old thing today but subject is the Shinkansen. Various Shinkansen appeared from commencement of business in 1964, and it retired to private life.

It continued the other day also at first 0 series, and, as for 100 series and 300 series, retirement was decided. If a new thing is made, the old thing is lost someday. The time is progressing.

Although the appearance of the newest N700 series and E5 series are good looking, if it is called the Shinkansen, are they the Shinkansen of a round nose which is first generation!?

Hi, everyone. How's your day? Please look at a beautiful scene from the sea today. Various things will be considered with what, looking at the sunset.

The circumference is the sea!! The sunset from the sea is really beautiful.

If you take a big luxury ship, just enjoy beautiful sunset on the sea.

Hi, everyone. Happy New Year. Do you have a cold??

It is a southern island which is saying this time.

Cold day has been continued recently. So, it flies over to a southern island such at the time.

We will forget winter season if it goes near the equator. It's a relaxing on the beach!!

Don't you forget a busy life and lengthen your life??

Warm climate, the passage of loose time, delicious food,,, It's awesome.

Where is here,,,?

Hi, everyone. How are you? A season is winter now. Future time, mind and body will get warm with warm foods.

Today is Japanese style hot pot for winter season.

The hot soup using dark-brown miso based for hot pot.

This spicy soup makes warmer the body much more.

Japan has various kinds of hot pot and this season's pleasure increases.

However, hot soup based of hot pot is a recommendation awfully.

At last of hot pot, it's risotto!!

A topping is carried out with cheese, and it closes and receives with eggs. It's awesome!!

When you have hot pot with your friends, please refer to it

Ok, see you next time.

Hi, everyone. How are you? I have been to see Red leaves at the end of last month.

It was a bit late this year and there was a little Red still more.

However, it is also a famous place and many persons were enjoying Red leaves.

It is popular, so that there are also people who come to see these Red leaves from overseas, and it is also a Japanese true symbol.

The Red leaves seen all over the country!!

Ok everyone, see you next time.

My name is Bryan.

Welcome to a beautiful city Tokyo.

This city attracts me so much and I have spent here already 4 years.

I come from Malaysia, a " truly Asian " multi-cultural society.

Sakura house gives me also an opportunity to meet many friends of different countries and    backgrounds.

 I welcome all of you from all over the world!

 美しい東京へようこそ。マレーシア出身のブライアンです。

世界各国のさまざまなお客様と会って、仕事が出来ることが、私の一番の幸せで嬉しいことです。

ご質問がありましたら、遠慮なく私にお聞きください。お手伝いいたします。

それでは、サクラホテル幡ヶ谷にてお待ちしています。

Hi, everyone. How have you been?

Today is Ayers Rock in AUS.

The drama of Japan also became famous which is centre of the world.

In fact, Ayers Rock is the rock which looks like mountain.

Moreover, it is buried in the earth 90%.

In a visible portion, there is 348m height.

Although Ayers Rock can also be reached, most is closed in many cases.

I was not able to reach, either.

The time of sunrise and sunset is solar sunlight and Ayers Rock becomes red.

It is really beautiful.

Please see, if there is an opportunity by all.

If it can reach in the centre of the world, please cry for love.

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!

I'm Hirotaka Hayakawa.

I have been working for Sakura Hotel Hatagaya for about 3 years and half.

I have been in Tokyo for more than a quarter of a century.

But there are lot of things I still don't know about Tokyo...

I have been to Germany (for 3 weeks) and France (for 5 days).

I cannot speak Germany but I can speak a little French (un peu de Français).

I used to like getting on local train so long such as from Ueno to Kushiro (about 1,200 km) and Tokyo to Kagoshima (about 1,200 km).

Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me.
I'll try the best I can do.

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

.

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.

Hello everyone! Nice to meet you :)

My name is Kyoko.

I am a new part-time staff of Sakura Hotel Hatagaya since November.

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Today I'd like to introduce myself to you understand me well.

I'm majoring Portuguese language in a university in Tokyo.

From 2009 to 2010, I was studying and living at University of Aveiro in Portugal.

It's Aveiro. Very beautiful city :)

I love traveling!!!

Thinking about my next trip makes me soooo happy!

I've traveled more than 20 countries all over the world.

 Macao

New York City

Paris

And the my best trip is in Morroco!

Of course in Japan I've traveled a lot.

I've ever been to Hiroshima for 4 times because I love there!

 Deers in Miyajima :)

 Recently I've learned Uzbek language and the situation in Uzbekistan by myself.

I've stayed in Uzbekistan for a month in summer vacation.

I'm doing my best to be able to help the guests everyday.

And if you need the help in Portuguese, please feel free and ask me!

Since we love variety at Sakura Hotel we wear our staff T-shirts in many different colours!

Have you seen them all?

Ai is wearing black today. Btw, she's busy preparing Welsh Cakes at the moment!

I'm purple.

Keiko will show you the other colors!

I love the yellow one.

What's your favorite color?

Hello everyone！

I'm KYOKO, started to work at Sakura Cafe/Hotel Hatagaya from today!

Nice to meet you---.

'I can speak Português! because I used to be in República Portuguesa
República Pertual for 1 year for study!!'

The numbers of countries, she travelled before, are over 20!

Super!!  

From  this afternoon, Kyoko began to do trainning at Sakura Cafe Hatagaya, and was tought how to make drinks and foods.

♪Please come to talk with me♪

 

Ai has been working at Sakura Hotel Hatagaya for about 3 years and our guests love her, because she's very friendly and so much fun to be around. She immediately becomes friends with everyone she talks to and is very interested in people and foreign cultures. She always asks me about German traditions, like the way we celebrate weddings, Christmas ect.

Ai used to live in Canada for a year, where she worked at a Japanese restaurant and at a karaoke bar among others. Her favorite food is rice, so she considers herself lucky to be born Japanese. ;)

Ai is very good at crafting and painting. She writes/ paints all the signs and menus for our cafe.

She also loves to take funny photos. Here is a little collection of pictures I stole from her facebook gallery (with her permission of course).

 One of her favorite hobbies is juggling. She even does performances at parties and festivals! She's really good. I was so surprised when I found out.

 There's so much more I could tell about her. Why don't you become friends with her and find out for yourselves? (^O^)

Oh, and did you know that Ai means love in English?

Very fitting name indeed.

We love you Ai! ^^

Hello!

My name is Ryoma, a new staff at Sakura Hotel Hatagaya!

Since I have joined this hotel just about a week ago, everything seems new.

This is the first article I post, so I start it off with my self-introduction!

I was born in Atsugishi, Kanagawa and living in Tokyo right now.

I majored in English in my university and like novels, music, arts and good food and drinks!

I like hanging out with my friends as well. Last Saturday, I went to Tama zoo.

It is easy to go there from our hotel.

1. Take the Keio new line from Hatagaya station to Shinjuku sta.

2. Take Keio line (express) from Shinjuku sta to Takahata-Fudo sta.

3. Change trains at Takahata-Fudo sta., and get off at Tama Dobutsu Koen sta.

And there I found funny animal! Do you know its name?? It's not Kangaroo or Wallaby.

 IMG_0568 / necoco

Its name is...Wallaroo!!

I heard that they are not so different from Kangaroos except their size: they are smaller.

 

If you are interested in the zoo or anything, please ask me! 

I'm looking forward to seeing you at Sakura Hotel Hatagaya!

 

Baking them takes a lot of time, since we have to prepare a big amount and different flavors. Up until now it was always Ai who baked them, because she is responsible for our cafe's menu and has the most experience.

Last time she asked me to help her, so I could learn the recipe from her, and today she let me do it all by myself! Yay!!

 I still need a bit more practice, but they turned out quite well for the first time.

And this is our new staff, Ryoma! It was his second day at work today.

Look forward to his introduction post in the near future. (^O^)/

 Have you ever tried -2℃ Beer??

I went to Asahi Extra Cold Bar in Ginza, Tokyo few days ago.

There were still long line up when we arrived there at 9:00 PM.

We could enter the bar 15 min. after, and of cource orderd beer

and it was so~~~~nice!!!　o(*^▽^*)o~♪

Mild and creamy froth of beer!!!

We also had experience to serve a beer by myself at there★

Look!!

Looks nice right??

We also got this card for certificate!!

It will open until the end of September,

you should go there and try it!!

Do you know? Welsh cake made by a lot of our LOVE.
By the way, my name is Ai. Ai means LOVE.
hahaha.

"One for All, All for One."

Do you remember that I love to see musicals? :)

I saw "The Three Musketeers" at this time, and this word from D'Artagnan and three musketeers.

I always learned many things from musicals and plays.

It's not just a fun, good for study though★

I learned the importance of a companies at this time!!!

・・・By the way, I could shake hands with an actor who I like, I was so happy♪♪

haha♪♪

I had a realy good time in Ginza with my friend  of ten year's standing few days ago.

That was...

Live House!!! 

I went to Live House in Ginza, and it was my first time to enjoy Ginza night. 

My older friend brought me.

And...2 places we went.

KENTO'S that we went first was really nice atmosphere and there were a big stage inside the house.

It actually not so big inside but we enjoyed old songs and they're nice talk.

Then we stayed until close time :)

I didn't know that I can enjoy at Ginza like an adult city!!!

Please try to go and enjoy if you have a chance!!!

皆さんも是非行ってみて下さい！

絶対また行きたいです！！！！！

Hi,there!

I am Yoshitaka,a new receptionist.I came here in mid June.

I lived in Aizuwakamatsu,Fukushima prefecture before I moved to Tokyo.
It's my hometown which is 100km away from the nuclear plants.

Although the city is very famous sightseeing spot among Japanese,
the tourism and farming are seriously damaged by the accidents.
I hope that it will recover from the disaster soon.

I've travelled over 50 countries in this 15 years.
I am glad to help tourists from other countries to travel in Japan.

Yoshi

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: [email protected]
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hatagaya_hotel
Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/SakuraHotelTokyo

Hi! My name is Tak Yoshida, and I'm a new staff at Sakura Hotel Hatagaya(^^)

Before joining Sakura Hotel Hatagaya, I have trained at Sakura Hostel Asakusa for a month. (Some of you may have already known me from my tweets @asakusa_hostel.) Before joining Sakura group, I have lived and worked at small hotel in Hakone for 2 years.

I have also lived in India for 2 years. I have rescued street children there, and taught them music. I'm proud to say some of them have now become professional musicians.

Before working in Japan, I have studied music in US for 10 years. Yes, I'm a songwriter! I have written songs in both English and Japanese.

Please feel free to talk to me anytime, and share your smile (^^)

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: [email protected]
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hatagaya_hotel
Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/SakuraHotelTokyo

I went to Hamanako-lake last weekend with my family

and bought Unagi-pie for my co-worker.

Do you know Unagi??

 It's an eel!!

Yammy~♪　yammy~~♪

Syunka-dou is a confectionery maker in Hamamatsu.

I went there yesterday!

Unagi pie had some eel powder.

Can you believe it??

But it's really nice!!!

gonna have some with Miwa and Yukako from now♪♪

You wanna try??

Sometimes you are in Japan, let's go there if you like!! 

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: [email protected] 
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hatagaya_hotel 
Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/SakuraHotelTokyo 

Her name is Hitomi.

One of Sakura Hotel Jimbocho's staff (freshman).

Now, she is working in Sakura Hotel Hatagaya.

（This photo is taken in Sakura Cafe Hatagaya）

I think she looks like someone in Japanese Actress. But I couldn't find out the actress' name.

★Do you find out whom she looks like??★