Hello, everyone.
I am Park, one of the staff on weekends at Ikoeno-ie.
Today, we bought a huge red umbrella which will be decorated at the gate of the building in which the reception desk is located.
It was a lot of fun gathering ideas with the co-workers and the owner for making Ikoeno-ie a cozier place for everyone. The first step of it was finding the perfect position of the umbrella.
The one holding the umbrella is another weekend-staff, Sawaki (A very brilliant MBA course student at Kyoto University).
Unfortunately, you won’t be able to see him holding the umbrella when you visit us; once the position is decided, we will make a strong holder to fix the umbrella.(^^)
Come to see the umbrella, and come to see us.
We are looking forward to meet you under the Big-Red-Umbrella. :)

hello mina sama

this is moshe from israel and i am new in this blog sow please be kind to me
anyway i wake up this mornning and i look out side from the window and out side was no good whether i just hope sow in the weekend the whether is going to be changing
be good people
moshe

We moved!

Hi here's a little update from us.
We've been quite busy lately
because we just open new buildings and had to move our reception.
It's Machiya house which is known as a traditional building in Japan.
It looks pretty nice and we really like it!
We hope you stay here if you have a chance to come to Kyoto...

We look forward to meeting you anyway!

Takeshi

snowing kyoto

cold indeed for the last 2 days, we had snow yesterday. the temperature last weekend was too mild like spring, who could imagine it would snow the following day!
keep warm everyone:) Manami

Wanna Dumpling?!

Last week our guests, a couple from Australia and I had Chinese dumplings for our dinner after cooked together.
It was very nice opportunity and they tasted very delicious! But I couldn't take photos of it unfortunately because I didn't have a memory card in my camera...

If you wanna have some foods of Japanese, you can ask us and them you may be able to eat them in our hostel after cooking together!!?

Meg.

Hatsu Kobo Shrine Market

Every month on the 21st a huge market called Kobo-san which is related to the famous monk, Kobo Daishi, is held at Toji temple. Hatsu Kobo means the first shrine market of the year and about 1,200 stalls will be open and many people will come to enjoy them.

You can easily get to the temple from our hostel, so you should definitely visit there!! It must be very interesting!!!

Coming of Age Day

Second Monday of January - Mon, 12 January 2009.

Today is the national holiday in Japan to celebrate people becoming adult that is older than 20 years and legally enable to drink alcohol and smoke.
So you can see cute kimono girls and guys on the street if you are lucky:)

Megumi