Hello!

How are you?
Hope you’re all fine as always : )!

It’s soon going to be July 7th… the TANABATA day : )

Tanabata is an event related to the STARS.
It is based on a story that only once a year, Hikoboshi and Orihime, the two lovers, would be allowed to meet each other at the shores of the heavenly river.
And that DAY they can meet each other is – July 7th.

Hikoboshi and Orihime were husband and wife.
They were so deeply in love with each other and started to NOT do their job/work.

That is a problem. Right?

So as a punishment, they were separated and only allowed to meet one once a year.

On the night of 7th July of every year, people write their wishes on colorful paper sheets and hang them on bamboo leaves.

That is how the TANABATA came a celebration in Japan !
(*Although there might be various theories.)

Have a sweet TANABATA night : )!

Thank you.

Hi!
It’s been really HOT these days.
The summer finally came to Japan!

Which means…
The TSUYU- rainy season has started too!

In Japan, the rainy season lasts from the beginning of June to mid-July.

We call the rainy season ‘tsuyu’, which literally means ‘plum rain’.
We call like this because it starts when plums are ripening.

When the TSUYU finished … the HOT HOT summer is going to come!
And will be the best season for swimming too : )!!! Can’t wait!

The rainy season might last for a little more,
But let’s enjoy the rainy TSUYU season too.

Thank you!

Hi!

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We update our latest news, the recommend flat information, and other valuable information here every day! (Sorry, but we usually don’t on our holidays!)

You may get a chance to get the discount coupon if you inquire us from Instagram!

Follow us and grab the chance to get the discount!
Don’t miss it : )

Good evening 🙂

It was really a hot day today…
great day for viewing the apartments!

Today, I got this super lovely sweets from my customer who finished her contract this morning…!

It’s not that I’m happy because I got a really good sweets,
but I’m really happy because I got the feeling of
her satisfaction to the apartment,
her satisfaction to our service,
her full expectation to the new life in the new room/ new area,
and had her word of ‘Thank you’ to me, for the apartment we’ve found and the service she had.

These experience motivated us a lot- and we’ll always do our best searching our customers the BEST-FIT apartment and the area.

Looking forward helping search YOU a new place to start your new life :)!

Thank you.

Today is ‘Mother’s day’ in Japan.
It’s a date to how your respect and gratitude of your mother’s daily hard work.

‘Mother’s day’- which is becoming one of the world-common celebration day- came to Japan in the 1910’s, and became common in Japan in the 1950’s.

In 1947, the ‘Mother’s day’ was officially decided to be on the second Sunday of May in Japan.

We usually send gift to our mother- the most popular one is a red carnation.

But did you know that there are many more colors of carnation?
And they each has a meaning…
For example:
-Red: Love, love of mother
-Pink: Gratitude, thankful, warmth
-Purple: Elegance
-Blue: Eternity happiness, graceful

Hope this will help you in some way 🙂

Lastly, I’ll introduce my favorite word-
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It takes someone really brave to be a mother,
someone strong to raise a child
and someone special to love someone more than herself
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Have a lovely Mother’s day.

Hello!

Thank you very much for all your help and support as always.

Today, we want to inform you about our Golden Week holidays.

The office will be closed
【from May 3rd to May 5th】,
due to the national holidays in Japan: Golden week.

We will resume working from May 6th.

Apologies for any inconvenience it may cause,
thank you very much for your cooperation.

Thank you.

Hello!

How are you?

It have been Golden week in Japan,
Are you having a good holiday?

We are going to have our golden week holiday from tomorrow- 3rd to the 5th of May.
Please check out the here for the details!
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News

Do you know what ‘Golden Week’ is?
It’s the week where we have many public holidays- that sometimes it becomes a whole week off.

For this year, these are the main three public holidays:

①3rd : Kenpo Kinenbi— Constitution Memorial Day
→The date the current Constitution of Japan came into effect.

②4th: Midori no hi—Greenery day
→It’s a ‘Greenery day’- the date we should thank to the nature and all the ‘green’ around you, and enrich your mind and heart.(*It stems from the Emperor Showa’s birthday on April 29. The name “Greenery Day” was chosen to commemorate the Emperor Showa, who had profound knowledge of biology and botany. And in 2007, Greenery Day was moved to May 4th.

③5th: Kodomo no hi—Children’s Day
It’s a day to celebrate children’s happiness and to respect their personalities. The day was originally called “Tango no Sekku”, or Boy’s Festival. It was celebrated in order to wish the healthy growth of the boys in the family.

④6th: Saturday

⑤7th: Sunday

Hope this will help know MORE about Japan : )

We’ll resume working from the 6th, Saturday.

We all are looking forward to see you soon!

HELLO 

Do you know ZABUTON ?

It’s a cushion we use when we sit on the floor.

As you may know,
We Japanese used to sit on the floor, with a low table in the tatami living / dining room.

But if you sit directly on the floor…
That will hurt your legs, right?

So that is why we use ZABUTON- the cushion to sit on.

Also, it was one of the way to show our ‘OMOTENASHI’ too- when customers come to your house, we always took out the ZABUTON for them.

These days, the style of living changed to ‘Western-style’ and most of us use the table and a chair to sit and eat, and the room floor is flooring.

But it may be quite a good option to have a low table with ZABUTON, in a tatami room- you may feel the breeze of Japanese tradition.

Enjoy your life in Tokyo, Japan 

Hello!

The SAKURA is beginning to end the season,
And the new season is starting to come up in Tokyo.

All the trees will turn green from the white/pink SAKURA- which is also beautiful view.

Have to get ready for the picnic!

April is the beginning of the new period in Japan.
So many new comers start to join the company- like your school or your job.

What we do first to welcome them,
Is the welcome party— which means to go drink with your coworkers.

It is said that there are some ‘rules’ or ‘manners’ for the drinking scene in Japan.

For example…
-When you take your seat, you have to sit closer to the entrance (of the room) than your boss.
-When you make a toast and hit the glass to your boss, you cannot make your glass higher than your boss.

 

These may be quite OLD-STEREO typed rules,
And it is NOT that every single person in Japan follow these rules and you have to do it too,
But it is true that many of us follow / be aware of these.

It may help your NOMIKAI- if you knew these Japanese rules?

Hope you’ll have a great one　:)

Hi!

It became SAKURA – HANAMI season now in Tokyo!

Have you ever heard of it?

It’s a traditonal way to enjoy the SAKURA- cherry blossom.

I’ll intorduce my favourite HANAMI areas in Tokyo :)!

(1)YOYOGI Park
Nearest station : Harajuku / Shibuya / Yoyogi station
It’s a HUGE park in Harajuku aea!
Good point about this is about the AREA!
As you know, Harajuku aera have THOUSANDS of shops and cute sweets shops!
You can buy the foods / sweets here and enjoy it in the park ; )
And no fees to enter the park!

(2)SHINJUKU GYOEN Park
Nearest station: Shinjuku Gyoen Mae / Shinjuku station
The location is great, and the SAKURA in this park is REALLY beautiful.
The combination of traditional Sakura and the modern buildings in Shinjuku makes the view.
You need to buy a ticket to enter, but it must be worth paying it.

(3)Meguro river
It is a stream along the Meguro area.
Sakura bloomed along the Meguro river is one of the MUST thing you got to see when you come here in Tokyo.
There are many cafe and restaurants along the river too,
so you can enjoy the coffee with the Sakura too :)!

I’m planning to go HANAMI soon too.

Hope you’ll enjoy the Japanese SAKURA!

Thank you 🙂