Hikari-machi

Hikari-machi is located in about 5 min. walk from Hana Hostel Hiroshima toward north after crossing a railroad.




There is a 24-hours open supermarket "YOURS".
also there are lots of local restaurants at a reasonable price.

In addition, there are walkway called "Futaba-no-sato",
and peace pagoda at the top of the mountain called "Futaba-yama".

This place is out of neighborhood map, so I visited this place in order to explain much more to our future guests. I went up to the peace pagoda.



Before that I went to Sushi restaurant named "Sushi-ken". They serve 10 pieces of sushi and miso soup in 650 yen.
fresh, cheap, authentic and professional! also they have plenty selection of local sakes. I would reccommend this place for sushi lover!

Began to walk.


Walking direction


Sign at the entrance of peace pagoda



so steep angle on my way that I got tired to easily. My heart was beating so fast.
I knew why because I am not doing regular exercise these days.
I thought I need to start some kind of sports of studet days.(baseball or Japanese archery)


finally came out on top in 20 min.





You can see until Hiroshima port. Perhaps I can see firework festival in summer from here.



I would surely go there again by motorcycle,not on foot.
I recommend Hikari-machi if you are looking for places to look around nearby.


大きな地図で見る

Kyoto Hana Hostel is on-air

The other day, there was a talk of a radio appearance from KBS Kyoto.

It was an interview of the radio car segment on the KBS radio's program named "Moriya Takeo no Osewaninarimasu!!". The program broadcast between 12:00 and 14:00 from Monday to Thursday.

One of our guest Giuliana who happened to be present also has been interviewed. Although she has rather emerged at center stage.

My tone was very low and sounds like a business presentation without interest. But Tamtam saved me with a piece of paper written "Too Serious!".

Manga Cafe

Belated HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
It is the year of 'DRAGON' in Chinese astrological calendar.

Anyways, one of the thing that Japanese is so famous about and should be proud of is MANGA/ANIME. It is also known as a Japanese culture.
I have met a lot of MANGA fans from all over the world at Kyoto Hana Hostel. And I am one of them.
There is also a girl who is big fan of manga at Kyoto Hana Hostel. She sometimes talks about manga cafe and what manga is 'HOT' right now.
Finally She and I went to manga cafe the other day! I had not been there for a while, thus I was super surprised how fun place it was!!!
I know that a lot of people have mentioned about manga cafes on the internet already. But I could not not talk about it now!! Because I was totally astonished and had a fantastic time there.
We went to the one which locates around SHIJO KARASUMA area.

They have a different rank of seats such as counter seats and private sofa seats.
Seats price includes variety of unlimited refillable beverages such as pops coffees and soups.



We took a second cheapest seats.



It was very cozy and enough space to enjoy reading manga!!
I really really really liked their food varieties ! They have great choice of food with a great value!



My friend had a rice bowl with hamburg.



I had a toast. (I am a toast lover!!)



Ooooops!! What manga I had have been reading!? LOL

I had a really really great time even though we did not talk at all as if the other was not exist,and just kept concentrating on reading!!haha

Wish for your great year 2012!!

Why don't you go to the Mazda car factory tour in Hiroshima♪

Hi there!
you remember Mr banzai been?
He came back to Hiroshima again.

He joined Mazda car factory tour yesterday , I asked him about the tour because I have never done it.

Mazda museum









This tour is good for learning about the Mazda cards and history.
It was 90min tour . The guide was very friendly, knowledgeable and informative about Mazda.

Tour is free!
Mr been was very satisfied and knew something about Mazda.

I asked Mr been " What was his favorite car' He answered , any car with the tour guide ♪　which means...He liked tour guide more than the car...




any,way he strongly recommend this tour to anybody!!

It takes about 5min from Hiroshima station by JR train (sanyo or Kure line).
As you may　know, it just 3mins walk from Hiroshima Hana hostel to JR Hiroshima station♪

Why don't you go to the Mazda car factory tour in Hiroshima♪

♪HAPPY NEW YEAR♪

it's already 2012!! I'm not still used to it yet.. I still write 2011..

Hi & Happy New Year from Hiroshima HANA Hostel!
How's your new year's holiday? I hope you all had great one. Had any Japanese style new year?
Such as eat OSECHI, TOSHIKOSHI SOBA and so on.


Osechi is traditional Traditional Japanese New Year food.
The dishes that make up osechi each have a special meaning celebrating the New Year.



Ex:Kazunoko (数の子),(Herring roe) Kazu means "number" and ko means "child." It symbolizes a wish to be gifted with numerous children in the New Year.

Soba (buckwheat noodles) eaten on New Year's Eve is called toshikoshi (year-bridging) soba in Japan. It is a tradition to eat soba on New Year's Eve since soba has the meaning of longevity.

Traditional Japanese New Year food has many special meaning, you will find out it is very interesting to know! If you missed it this year, please try it next year!!

Happy New Year to all the guest who stay at any HANA Hostel and J-Hoppers!!
Looking forward to seeing you again!