Hello, all!
This is Takato from Borderless house in Kyoto 🙂
Here, we announce that we will open two international sharehouses in Kyoto!! Each house has half Japanese local tenants, so you can live and learn Japanese from locals!!
We introduce these international share house in this article!!
Please give us your contact, if you are interested in 😉
Borderless House Kyoto Saiin 2! Only 5mins walk to Saiin station!
Good access to the center of Kyoto, Shijo, Kawaramachi, and Osaka!
This house is located in 5mins wall from Saiin station, which is good access to Shijo, Karasuma, Kawaramachi, and Osaka. Moreover, if you study at ISI Japanese school, you can walk to the school in the 15mins walk!
Huge 50㎡ LDK and all types of rooms are installed!!
This house has three floor and all types of rooms, which is private and shared room type. If you want to have more opportunities to communicate Japanese, the shared type will be recommended!! This house has three floor and all types of rooms, which is private and shared room type. If you want to have more opportunities to communicate Japanese, the shared type will be recommended!!
Borderless House Kyoto Kinugasa! Newbuilt & Large size House giving utmost international experience.
Good location for Ritsumeikan students! 5mis bicycle ride to Kinugawa campus!
It is good to access to Ritsumeikan university, 5mins ride bicycle, and 20mins walk! Also, you can go to Enmachi and Karasuma area from the bus stops nearby the house!!
Newly built sharehouse keeps balance privacy and communication!!
Now, we are constructing Borderless House Kinugasa.
As this sharehouse contend, 26 tenants, it gives a lot of experience to someone who wants to meet more people from local and another country!!!
The room types are private room and shared a room! As all private room has loft space, it is very spacious. The shared room has own private loft space, so privacy will be kept!!
How are there two international share houses?
We are very welcomed to have your inquiries and questions anytime!!
Please let us know from the below link if you are interested!!
What kind of culture in Senegal? This is the program you can enjoy international experience with five senses!
As-salamu alaykum! Hello, this is Yuya from Borderless House who is in charge of the program!
『BORDERLESS DINERS～Experience international restaurants and travel around the world ～』This new program has started since last month!
You can enjoy different cuisines in restaurants or catering in Tokyo!
Eat!Talk! think! It is a hands-on program where you can enjoy international exchange with the five senses.
Second time is Senegal cuisine! I am going to report BORFERLESS DINERS was held on March 31st.
Fresh cuisine you can enjoy looking at! Cheerful Senegalese chef cooked in front.
This time is Live Cooking! that Aly san came to Honancho House in Shinjuku. Participants can see a process of making dishes with talking with Aly san right in front!
Says of Senegal cuisine, it’s so colorful and beautiful because they use papurika, egges, tomatos and any other vegetables.
Being wrapped Fatayer(Samosa Senegal style), being fried Beignet(Donut Senegal style)
The participants were very interested in the dishes onw after another. There are many questions and it’s Aly san time to shine!
First, you enjoyed international experience with your eyes!
Plant to drink! The gut healthy drink that contains baobab and hibiscus
Next is the smell! Enjoy the vivid welcome drinks with baobab and hibiscus!
Besides looking, it also had a good smell. The smell of hibiscus and baobabs mixed up and seem to be in the forest.
Moreover, it seems to have the effect of recovering the intestines, and it is an excellent drink that is good for your skin and beauty as well!
After eating the appetizer Fataya while drinking the welcome drink, we feeled more hungry!
But first, we learned a little bit about Senegal. Aly san talked about Senegal’s population, religion, and language!
“Thank you” is “Jerjev” in Moloch spoken in Senegal
Finally it’s time to eat dishes! Thank you for the chef Aly’s preparation!
Shiny hands! Holding and eating a large dish
In Senegal, lunch is the main meal of the day and staple food is the same rice as Japan.
The dish of rice cooked with platter and rice dishes and side dishes. This is Senegal’s feast!
This time we had a typical rice dish of Chevyap and Sesaginal. What a sumptuous feast!
Chebu means rice, Yap means meat. Sesaginal, a dish made of meat and rice, is rice dish with onion sauce!
Let’s start to eat the beautifully presented dishes with everyone!
but they said…..
“How do you eat even though there are no plates or spoons?”
Fufufu, have you noticed? This program is the international “experience” program, of course, you should eat it by hand just like Senegal!
It is Senegal-style to take a size that is easy to eat, and hold it for a while and then eat.
At first, they started to eat with hands nervously, but we can not stop at the overly delicious Chebyap!
”You are a Senegalese!” There were people who grab a tip and were praised by Aly san.
Everyone enjoyed the feeling of the hand.”
We were full for lots of delicious food, and noticed what a shiny hand! Good smile!
Looks and tastes of Okinawa food? Senegal and Japan in common
Full, but the dessert is another! After all, we also enjoyed Senegal’s popular Benie by hand.
Senegal’s Benier, when you look closely it looks and tastes so familiar with Sata Andagi in Okinawa …?
“It is no longer Sata Andagi! The only difference is whether raisins are in or out!
The taste that is loved is the same things even if different countries.
Of course the drink is coffee! Senegal coffee contains spice and is very rich!
Make bubbles and pouring in this way!
Actually, Senegal is a coffee lover country because it seems to be drinkable to all ages, male and female even if the taste is very rich.
“A country without homeless people” An aspect of Islam not known in Japan
They seems to be getting eager to know more about Senegal.
From now, we will have a lecture about Senegalese culture and religious to know about Senegal deeply.
“Senegal is an Isramic country in which 95% of the population believe in Isram. However, the commandment is not so strict and we don’t have bad relationships with the other religious believer.”
Aly told us, “We, Senegalese Muslims are doing really good with the other religious believer. I’m Muslim but my school was a catholic one and I have a lot of catholic friends. Important thing is to take the teachings in actions, live cooperating with neighbors and show gratitude every day. Since it is really natural to help each other and be thankful, there are no people who are hungry in Senegal although there are people in difficulties due to lack of money of course. Senegal is a country which doesn’t have homeless people.”
We shouldn’t eat all completely in Senegal, “Omotenashi” country!
We shouldn’t eat all completely in Senegal, “Omotenashi” country!
“Do you know that Senegal is a country which has “Omotenashi” culture like Japan. *”Omotenashi” is a Jaoanese word which means an atitude or an action with a hospitality when we welcome guests.
In Senegal, peoole use the word “Teranga” for “Omotenashi”. The word has a meaning of taking good care of the connection with other people and sharing it. This meanins also comes from the Isramic teachings.
Aly says, “In Senegal, we don’t lock our house doors so that people who are hungry or who need help can visit anytime.
The Isramic spirits are widespread so that’s why we have this culture. We mustn’t eat the served dishes completely. In other words, they serve lots of dishes we cannot finish.
Even today, Aly prepared the food more than the amount for the number of people.
He says this is because he has a heart of the hospitality which he wants to make the guests feel full.
In Japan, it is not good to leave food so if we eat everything according to the Japanese culture, they serve continuously.
Don’t you think it is really interesting that there is a difference in the dining culture although both country have the same “Omotenashi” culture?
Enjoy differences! This is also the good part of this program!
Islamic culture is to help each other. It is a warm religious culture.
Aly told us that the important thing is not money but the connection with people.
If we live in Japan, there is no opportunity to get to know the Isramic teachings and the way of thinking in life based on the teachings.
This program became a really good one because we could get to know that the Senegalese food is so nice and there are nice culture in Senegal.
Of course we took a photo together at last!
The next program is for Syria!
“BORDERLESS DINERS ~Experience international restaurants and travel around the world ~” is a program which we hold once in a month only for our tenants!
We will have this program at Syrian restaurant in Ikebukuro next time! What can we experience from the program?
Hello, everyone! This is Yuya from Borderless House planning team!
It’s getting warmer, spring has arrived! So you must be excited for new life!
With the coming of spring, our new program has started!
The program name is『BORDERLESS DINERS～International Experiences Restaurant for Traveling the World～』
This new hands-on program has started!
Food is closely related to cultural costume! Let’s touch different culture with five sense! See! Feel! Taste!
LINK UP, which was run as a Borderless House exchange program last year. We received many happy comments from the tenants, such as “new connections with other share houses!”
LINK UP is a program which provides the tenants with the opportunity to meet and connect through languages and interests.
During this program, we also received comments that “I want to know more about various countries!” And “I want to touch culture and international experience more deeply!” That is because we restart the program as “BORDERLESS DINERS”.
“BORDERLESS DINERS” is an international experience program focused on “food” in order to make you feel and learn deeply the countries of the world.
We are going to reserve restaurants in various countries in Tokyo for this problem!
Eat! Talk! think! It is a hands-on program where you can enjoy the international exchange with the five senses.
The program will be held once a month for our tenants only. The maximum number of participants is only 20 people in this program, so you can interact with people more closely, which is a bit different from big events!
“Eating” and “learning about” food from other countries. Purpose behind the program
This program was launched with the wish of experiencing different cultures through “food” and enjoying the differences.
Italian, French, Chinese, Korean cuisine and ethnic food such as Thai food!
I believe that these types of dishes are familiar to everyone.
However, there are many countries that you may know the name of such as Myanmar and various African countries, but you have never eaten their foods!
The world has a variety of dishes unique to that country, and each dish has its own story and culture.
For example, because Japan has four seasons and the ingredients available in each season differ, Japanese food culture has developed along with events and seasons.
Furthermore, there must be many people who think of “niku-jaga” when hearing the words Japanese home cooking?
Do you know the origin of this national soul food of niku-jaga? ?
Actually, the origin of niku-jaga is beef stew!
What I mean is, “niku-jaga” was born as a result of the trouble of a certain historical person who could not forget the taste of beef stew and somehow wanted to make it in Japan.
Thus, traditional menu items actually contain rich international origins, and conversely, in some cases, they come from a culture that has been developed for religious reasons, and it can be seen that the origins of foods are very deep!
“Food” is a very familiar means of learning about a country.
It is our hope that while eating the food of a country, you can learn about that country. Through cooking, countries that were previously “unknown” become countries that you “would like to know more about” and “would like to go to”!
We aim to create a program that allows you to experience such things.
Venue changes every month! Traveling through food program, the first country is Myanmar!
This program was held in Myanmar restaurant which is located Takadanobaba on Feb 22.
4 Koreans, 1 Franch, 1 Saudi Arabian, 1 Taiwanese and 8Japanese participated! The ratio of male to female and ratio of nationality aere also slmost 50:50!
Is this place Little Yangon! ? A long-established cafeteria loved in Takadanobaba where 1,500 people from Myanmar live.
In fact, Takadanobaba is a fierce battlefield of Myanmar cuisine with over 20 such restaurants. Ruby, where the event was held this time, is a long-established Burmese restaurant that has been open for 20 years in Takadanobaba! Naturally, the restaurant staff is also from Myanmar! You can enjoy authentic cuisine from Myanmar.
What kind of country is Myanmar? ? The manager of the restaurant told me about Myanmar.
Start of program! What kind of country is Myanmar?
Myanmar is located in Southeast Asia and has about 1.8 times the area of Japan. It is a devoutly Buddhist country with over 100 ethnic groups, and there are several temples and pagodas on the streets.
Myanmar is located in Southeast Asia and has about 1.8 times the area of Japan. It is a devoutly Buddhist country with over 100 ethnic groups, and there are several temples and pagodas on the streets.
Reportedly, when he happened to come to Japan to travel 30 years ago, when he was listed as part of an anti-government organization by the military government, and unable to return home, became a refugee.
I told me valuable stories and exciting stories, such as the story of his time 30 years ago in Japan, the story of being able to return home for the first time in 20 years last year, and stories about Burma during the military administration and Myanmar in the present.
What impressed me the most was the story of Kyaw Kyaw Soe-san’s dream.
“Myanmar, which I returned to for the first time in 20 years, has become unrecognizable, but after since the government has changed, the people have no sense of unity. Therefore, I would like to spread the school song culture that I learned in Japan in Myanmar. I would like to make school songs so that students sing together and head toward the same goal.”
Hearing such precious stories is part of the appeal of this program!
The participants also find it interesting.
And finally, it was time to eat the cuisine from Myanmar!
Myanmar is surrounded by five countries, and Myanmar has absorbed the delicious points of the cuisine of these five countries!
Myanmar food is characterized by being a little bit spicy and a little bit oily.
In fact, Myanmar is surrounded by China, Laos, Bangladesh, Thailand, and India, and it is a multi-ethnic country in which various ethnic groups and cultures are mixed.
Therefore, the variety of dishes is also diverse!
The cultures of the surrounding countries have influenced the cuisine, and there are very good dishes from many countries, as the cuisine has incorporated the spiciness of Indian food, the quick and easy cooking methods of Chinese food, and the sweet and sour taste of Thai food.
This time, various dishes were prepared, such as the national dish that can be eaten in Myanmar to dishes that are eaten for celebrations such as weddings.
This time, various dishes were prepared, such as the national dish that can be eaten in Myanmar to dishes that are eaten for celebrations such as weddings.
Some people were a cautious about trying the foods, and some dug in quickly!
You could hear the voices of the participants at different restaurants saying, “This is spicy”, “This is delicious!”, etc.
The origin of udon is Burmese noodle nan gyi thohk? ! Connections in the world as seen from food!
The origin of udon is Burmese noodle nan gyi thohk? ! Connections in the world as seen from food!
Because there were participants from various countries, the predictions of each person varied! It was a heated discussion!
For example, “The udon salad is probably a kind of reimen in Japan because it is so light.”
“Perhaps sweet foods are used for celebrations? So tapioca and sweet potato desserts must be for weddings!”
Then, the answers were presented.
Have you ever seen this dish?
Don’t you think that it looks like udon?
Yes, this is actually udon found in Myanmar. The name of this dish is nan gyithohk, and it is a type of udon salad.
The recipe for the noodles is almost the same as that of udon! It is made of soybean flour, and people in Myanmar eat the salad when they want to feel refreshed. It is home cooking and is often eaten as a daily meal. It is the same as in Japan, right!
Then, Kyaw Kyaw Soe-san said that this is the origin of Japanese noodles.”The taste and texture of the noodles are almost the same as those of udon.
so please try it once if you are interested!
There was also a dish called dan bauk, which is eaten during celebrations such as weddings.
It is a simple dish of stewed chicken and butter rice.
But making it is hard!
It is a dish that is very time-consuming to make as various spices are mixed and it is stewed for a long time.
However, once it is made, it can be served immediately like curry, and it was explained that it became a dish of hospitality served for celebrations since guests are not kept waiting.
In this way, even in a seemingly distant country, Japan is actually connected like a relationship with nan gyi thohk,
and we realized that the heart of hospitality for cooking is universal!
If you order “the food served in the Borderless House program”, you will be able to eat these foods, so if you are interested, please check out RUBY in Takadanobaba!
Borderless House, tenants-only program that can connect with over 700 share mates
Finally, recommended spots in Myanmar were presented, and the program was concluded!
Then, a male participant invited everyone to a house party saying, “There will be a party at my shared house in Iriya tonight, so everyone is welcome to join and continue talking about the program!”
In this way, the Borderless House program is also able to connect with more than 700 share mates living in 69 share houses in Tokyo!
Next travel is SENEGAL!We will do live cooking next time in Shinjuku Honan-cho, our share house!
The cheerful senegal chef make Senegal cuisine for participants.I hope you will enjoy the next blog!
Venue and food change every month! Traveling through food international experience restaurant.
Why don’t you stay in Borderless House that you can join this kind of programs?
Chinese New Year, as known as the Luna New Year, based on the lunar calendar, begins on the first day of the first lunar month, which is the most important festival to celebrate in Taiwan!
Every family members will gather on Chinese New Year Eve, share a dinner and the life of the previous year.
But you must what to ask, when you living aboard here in Taiwan, what can you do and where can you go during the New Year holiday?
Don’t worry! We got a few options which you can do during that time!
Dihua Street 迪化街
If you’re looking for a place to feel the Chinese New Year atmosphere, then Dihua Street will be the best choice for you! Start from a few weeks before Chinese New Year until the end of the New Year holiday, people go there to buy Chinese New Year’s goods, so Dihua Street will become very crowed and lively.
Longshan Temple 龍山寺/行天宮
Longshan Temple was built in 1738, it’s the most well-known temple in Taiwan! During the Chinese New Year, people gather to Longshan Temple to pray for a fresh and peaceful new year, and that’s the best way to experience the new year atmosphere.
Sanxia Old Street 三峽老街
Sanxia old street was an important business center in north of Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period. For now, Sanxia old street still keeps the historical red brick buildings and became to a famous tourist spot. And the Sanxia Qingshui Zushi Temple is also a must visit spot if you visit Sanxia, it will be very lively during Chinese New Year!
Taiwan Lantern Festival 台灣燈會
The Taiwan Lantern Festival is the biggest lantern festival hosted by Tourism Bureau in Taiwan, normally takes place during mid of Feb to beginning of Mar, and the event venue will alternate at different cities every year.
This year (2019), the Taiwan Lantern Festival will be take place in Pingtung city, and according to the Chinese zodiac sign, the main lantern this year will be “Pig”, if you have chance to visit south of Taiwan during that time, you shouldn’t miss it!
Here are the few options we want to share with you! Let us know if you have some other suggestions, or if you got any cool ideas to do during CNY, share with us!
Happy Chinese New Year! Everyone!
The streets and shops became Christmas, so it is time to have Christmas Party !!
At Borderless House Christmas Party, there were some contents such as BINGO game, SNS award, and etc. Everybody had a lot of fun on Dec 8th.
So, now we are going to show you a little bit about the Party !!
How was it ?? Do you want to know more details ?
By the way, this is Yuya who is one of the staffs of this event !!
In this vlog, I am going to tell you about Christmas Party !!
Before getting into, we want to thank you all who came to this party !!
We are so glad that a lot of people from different house showed up this party.
We felt too short because we had a lot of fun at the party.
You can make friends who will spent Christmas with you !? International Party has to be Borderless House
First, I am going to show you the party place called “silk load cafe“ in Kinshicho.
The cafe has a good atmosphere, so we were so excited to start Christmas Party.
It is actually a long story to decide this place, but we are happy that everybody liked it.
If you have time, please check this cafe 🙂
Also, there were about 100 people joined this Party from 21 countries !
You might have an idea who is the host and cameraman. Yes, there were two people who volunteered to have this party
The party has started and everybody was having a fun with new friends.
But wait?? there is a guy who is the host, but he is not Borderless staff. Who is this ??
Guess what ?? He is ONE of tenants in Omori 1 House.
His nickname is Satis who was one of the host at this Party.
Before he decide to join the event team…….
Lsat month, our staff visited his house and talked with him and suddenly,
He said he will move out from the house because he wants to travel all over the world !!
We were sad because he has stayed in Borderless House for a long time, and had a great experience.
So, we wanted to do something with him for his last memory as Borderless House tenants.
And, we offered him to be the host at this party…
He said Yes and joined this event team from the beginning !!!
Also, there is another guy who is volunteered to help this event
His name is Raba chan who is living in Funabori House !!
He was the cameraman at this party because we know that he loves taking photography and he has great skills as well.
He was happy to be the cameraman and brought the great camera and taking a lot of photos at this Party !!
All photos that I used in this vlog is taken by Raba chan. He is truly talented !!!!
Thank you for taking great photos, Raba chan !!
Som now, let’s get into the our first contents!!
Satis san explained the rules for everybody !!
The party has just started !!
You can be a frend with people from different house !! Exciting Contents !!
Our staff always talk that International exchange is the key, so of course, there is a opportunity that you can talk to people from other house in the content !!
Theme is “ connect across border “
What kind of content would that be……..?
The gesture relay game !! Can you understand what people try to tell you??
Yes !! Frist content was the Classic Party game “ Gesture game “!!!!
But, this is Borderless event, so we add some rules to make it more fun.
Rules are here !!!
Each group has 9 people. We gave first two people the topic and they gestured next peron, and the person guess the topic and show it to next two people and so on.
The topic was “Olympic”
If you were there, how would you gesture ?_
The interesting thing is that even though the topic was simple, everyone seemed confused about it because each one gestured differently.
For example. one tenant from Korea was doing archery, but another tenant from US was doing swim.
The person who guess the topic was so confused about it !!
His answer was sports culb !!
Topic is simple, but everyone takes it differently!!
That is why gesture game is funny !!
The first finished group got a prize !!!!!
The winner gets……..
10 packs of Nabe soup !! LOL
We chose it because we want to use it with everybody like having Nabe party 🙂
You are the reason why I get free rent !! FACE BINGO GMAE!
What would you think of the Borderless Christmas event ???
Yes !! You are right !!
we can not have the Borderless Christmas Party without BINGO game !!
FACE BINGO GAME!!
Can you guess what it is??
Rule is simple
When people came to the party, we took photos of their face with number.
So, we set the photos in BINGO game program and we show it on the screen.
A person gets BINGO by yourself number, and another person gets BINGO by number your friend has.
There are a lot of people who was looking for people’s number
And, there are always prizes.
1st prize was 1 MONTH FREE RENT !!!!!
The lucky guy who got 1 month free rent ticket is ……..
this guy !! from Honancho House
How lucky he is !!! Everybody was jealous about that !!
Congratulation !!
Who got most like on Instagram !! The SNS award is …..
Every Borderless House Event has SNS award !!
So, this time, we asked everybody to post photos with #borderlesshouse as many as possible during the party..
Then, end of the party, we checked who gets most like on Instagram !!
SNS award is a pair ticket for team lab Borderless !!!
She is one of my best friends !!! We interviewed the tenant !!
The Christmas Party is getting end, and I found a guy who is enjoying the party so much.
I had eye contact with him, so I felt like I need to ask him why he is enjoying so much.
HIM : Hey, look!! I made best friend !!
ME : Wait what !? but you just moved in Borderless House 2 weeks ago, and you found your best friend !? Also, you guys do not even live in the same house !!!!!
I was suprised how quickly people make their best friends.
He also said that this is the first time to live in shared house, and I already made a lot of friends and am able to join the this Party, I am so happy now !!
This is the Borderless Event !!
Do you feel like you want to join the Borderless event ??
Next event will be Borderless Olympic !? We are going to held International sports event next spring !!
The Christmas Party is finally coming to a close …
End of the party, we gathered everybody at the stage and took a group photo !!
This was the last Borderless House event of this year !!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING THE EVENT !!!
From now
I am going to give you heads up about next event in spring.
Actually, we gave you some hints about the next event at this Christmas Party.
Is anyone who noticed about it ??
RIGHT !!
We are going to held Borderless House Olympic next spring !!
There are a lot of people moving to Borderless House from all over the world,
so why don’t we held BIG sports event, right ??
We finally decided to have Borderless Olympic !!
We will be updating you about it onece we decide more details !!
Do not miss it !!
We will have more parties which bring connections between tenants in the future!
We assure that you will learn not only language but also Japanese local culture with your Japanese housemates in Borderless House.
Why don’t you try us and make your stay more enjoyable？
We are looking forward to meeting you again at next event !!
There are many interesting shops on this new and nostalgic area, Kuramaguchi St.. Please enjoy the video!!
In this blog,
・Location and Facilities of Borderless House Kyoto-Kuramaguchi house
・Recommended spots in Kuramaguchi St.
Here we go !!
Easy access to Karasuma station and Kyoto station!! You can go anywhere in Kyoto with Subway, Bus and Bicycle!!
By Kyoto Subway,
・7mins to Karasuma station
・11mins to Kyoto station
By Bus,
・15 mins to Emmachi station
If you go to ISI language school center, you can get easy access to Emmachi station from the house. Also, Bicycle is a best transportation way in Kyoto!!
For example, you can go to Doshisha University in 10mins !!
All private rooms with a lock. 56㎡ specious living & Dining with an earth floor”Doma“ will be a conformable place for daily living !!
In this specious common space, you can have a daily chat with international housemates and eating a dinner together.
Also, you can have your own time in the private rooms.
This is Borderless House Kyoto-kuramaguchi!! Here is the current construction update !!
Living is still in construction!
Looking forward to meeting you in the house !
So specious!! 40㎡ specious LDK and 16㎡ earth floor ”Doma“
This 40㎡specious LDK and 16㎡ earth floor ”Doma“ with high celling make you so conformable.
You can use this big community space for events or parties with locals !!
Two options of private rooms！！Loft type or Normal type
We prepare a desk, chair, ward-lope, desk light and book-shelf. So, you can just only bring your clothes!!
1st floor has rooms with loft space. So, you can use more space!!
All room on 2nd floor is normal type. High celling with skylights. It is incredibly bright !!
Brief introduction of Kyoto, Kuramaguchi St. where novelty and nostalgia exist together !!
Here, we are going to introduce some interesting spots in Kuramaguchi St. Please visit there with your future housemates!!
Sarasa Nishijin
Café＆Restaurant「Sarasa Nishijin」, renovated from old public bath, opened in 2000.
It is famous for unique architecture and various menu. Please enjoy your slowly day-off in this space!
Funaoka onsen
Kyoto is famous for public bath！
Funaoka onsen is a king of public bath！This traditional public bath opened a hundred years ago.
Try this traditional Japanese culture!
Tom Sawyer
Beloved bakery in locals.
They server about a hundred kinds of bread.
You must find your favorite bread here!
Fujimori Ryo
This is shops and ateliers renovated from old university student accommodation.
As they have trial lessons, please enjoy it with your housemates!
Kenkun Shrine
Here is good view point of Kyoto city from this small mountain of this shrine.
Also, it is good local spot to see famous bonfire summer festival in Kyoto.
(Gozan Okuribi)
Why do not join this international share house in thus unique area, Kyoto Kuramaguchi ?
Thank you so much for being interested in Kyoto-Kuramaguchi House!
We are very happy, if you can imagine to live in this share house!
We are planning to have collaborated events between local shops and Borderless House.
From next blog, we would like to introduce more about ”International community ”×”Local community ” between Borderless House and Local neighbors !!
Or planning to start your Chinese class in Taiwan?
Before that, we have a few interesting things what to let you know before you come to Taiwan!
1. Convenient store everywhere! (7-11, FamilyMart, Hi-Life, OK…)
（圖片來源：saveinmycity）
You’ll find out the convenient stores are one of the best things in Taiwan once you arrived!
Convenient stores in Taiwan are not just a store for junk food or beverage, you can basically do everything at there, ship packages, pay your bills, buy tickets (train, concert, exhibition…etc.), print documents, call taxi, ATM…and so much more!
And these 24H convenient stores are everywhere, seriously, EVERYWHERE! You can even find 2 or 3 convenient stores on one street! It’s your best neighbor ever!
2. Musical garbage trucks.
Living in Taiwan, we got some tips here for you to deal the household garbage.
Most of families here don’t have trash bins next to their house. Instead, garbage trucks drives through streets at night with playing Beethoven’s Fur Elise loudly to alert people their arrival, and you need to carry your trash bags (If you living in Taipei, you need to use the city-approved trash bags), and throw them into the trucks by yourself.
And you will find out the time of garbage trucks coming, is also the time of social gathering, because people come out earlier and chat with neighbors while they waiting!
3. Earthquakes and Typhoons.
Earthquakes and Typhoons are 2 things you will experience in Taiwan!
Taiwan located in a seismically active zone, the average number of perceivable earthquake is about 1,000 per year. (not to mention the un-perceivable earthquake is more than 18,500 per year.)
And if you visit Taiwan during July to September, you will probably hit the typhoon season, prepare some foods and save some clean water is what you need to do before it.
But don’t worry! You’ll also find out Taiwanese handle it very well, most of buildings in Taiwan are prepared for earthquakes and strong wind of typhoon!
4. Bubble tea.
Taiwanese LOVES bubble tea! You can find bubble tea shops nearly EVERY corner of Taiwan’s streets, and it’s a part of Taiwanese culture now!
If you planning to visit Taiwan soon, put bubble tea on your “must-try” list!
5. Friendly people!
Even not every Taiwanese can speak fluent English, but you’ll still find out how friendly are of Taiwanese!
Most of Taiwanese are defiantly welling to help if you need (sometimes you don’t even ask for help)! Finding a restaurant, point you a way to your hotel (or just take you to there with their scooter)!
And if you got chance to visit south of Taiwan, the people from south are even friendlier, most last generation can’t speak English, but they still give you smile, and try their best to help! You’ll definitely feel welcoming here!
6. Kingdom of Scooters!
Do you know Taiwan has the highest scooter density in Asia? The population of Taiwan is 23 million, but the amount of scooter is over 14 million! Almost every family has at least one scooter!
Taiwan is a small island, and scooter can take you to almost everywhere in Taiwan, especially when you travel out of Taipei City (Taipei has every complete public transport system), you’ll find out how convenient it is! And if you planning to travel around Taiwan, scooter is a good idea!
But remember to prepare your driving license and international license before you rent a scooter in Taiwan!
Wearing the traditional dress is one of the best way to experience a culture.
If you have a chance to visit Taiwan, you definitely need to try the traditional dress-Qipao!
This time, we take our tenants to Da Dao Cheng for day tour, which is a very historic area in Taipei. Wearing Qipao, walking in that area, it just feel like back to the 1920’s!
The 1920’s Salon offered a lot of different style’s Qipao, the owner Mrs. Lin also helped customers to dress up perfectly, included hair style, makeup and hand bags.
First step, feel free to try on all you like, choose your favorite Qipao style! And don’t forget to choose accessories for your costume, it’ll make it even perfect!
Of course, traditional dress is not just for females! Males can also wear the Chinese tunic suit!
After everybody finished dressing, it’s time for the tea testing! Mrs. Lin share some different tea leafs and explain how to do a tea testing to everyone.
Every different leafs has different smells, it gives everyone a different imaginations!
We shared our imaginations and memories which can contact to the smells.
Of course, you do want to take some nice pictures since wearing Qipao is a very special experience!
Luckily, we had a chance to take some cool pictures in “Lok Hue Hng”.
“Lok Hue Hng” is a second hand furniture store located next to 1920’s Salon, offering high quality and tasteful furniture.
Afternoon, we started our walking tour in Dadaocheng.
Qipao costume made us be came to the center of attention on the street, some people even asked for picture together.
The first place we visited was Xia-Hai City God Temple. This temple was built in 1856, and the City God is a protector of city, the resident came here praying for rain, for relieves from nature disasters.
But in recent years, the Chinese Cupid (The old man under the moon) became to the famous god in this temple, there’s a lot of people come here praying for a good relationship.
We show tenants how to pray step by step! It’s a very special experience for some tenants who didn’t try this before.
After the Xia-Hai City God Temple, we went to a few different traditional convenience store. There’s some very interesting products in the traditional convenience store!
Have you heard a kind of vegetable called loofah before? The old generation will exposure it under the sun, and use the dried loofah as a scouring pad!
And of course, the Taiwanese style printing fabric are also very famous, especially the lanterns made by the printing fabric.
Give Qipao a try if you are interesting in the Taiwanese traditional dress, and if you are in the history of Taiwan, Dadaocheng is also a perfect place for you!
If you’re looking for a place to feel the Chinese New Year atmosphere, then Dihua Street will be the best choice for you! Start from a few weeks before Chinese New Year until the end of the New Year holiday, people go there to buy Chinese New Year’s goods, so Dihua Street will become very crowed and lively.
Longshan Temple was built in 1738, it’s the most well-known temple in Taiwan! During the Chinese New Year, people gather to Longshan Temple to pray for a fresh and peaceful new year, and that’s the best way to experience the new year atmosphere.
Sanxia old street was an important business center in north of Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period. For now, Sanxia old street still keeps the historical red brick buildings and became to a famous tourist spot. And the Sanxia Qingshui Zushi Temple is also a must visit spot if you visit Sanxia, it will be very lively during Chinese New Year!
The Taiwan Lantern Festival is the biggest lantern festival hosted by Tourism Bureau in Taiwan, normally takes place during mid of Feb to beginning of Mar, and the event venue will alternate at different cities every year.
This year (2019), the Taiwan Lantern Festival will be take place in Pingtung city, and according to the Chinese zodiac sign, the main lantern this year will be “Pig”, if you have chance to visit south of Taiwan during that time, you shouldn’t miss it!
Here are the few options we want to share with you! Let us know if you have some other suggestions, or if you got any cool ideas to do during CNY, share with us!
Happy Chinese New Year! Everyone! 
▪士林夜市： 士林夜市絕對是遊客必去的景點之一。其佔地面積較廣，攤位種類多元，有吃又有玩，吃飽喝足後，還能到遊戲攤小試身手，絕對能讓外國朋友玩得盡興！
▪饒河夜市： 
永康街周圍除了有外國人最愛的鼎泰豐外，還有許多知名的特色小吃。像是米其林推薦的永康牛肉麵、排隊美食天津蔥抓餅、老字號東門餃子館，都是非常適合介紹給外國朋友的在地美食喔！
4. 中式早餐店
一日之計在於晨，開始一天的行程前，先帶朋友去品嘗傳統的中式早餐吧！台北美味的中式早餐非常多，各家都有自己獨特的風味，像是古亭站的劉媽媽飯糰、新北市的永和豆漿，或是被米其林推薦為全台中式早餐代表，善導寺附近的阜杭豆漿，絕對要帶著外國朋友去朝聖啊！
以上的幾個台北美食tips給大家做參考，不知道大家喜歡嗎？
或是你也有自己的必吃清單呢？歡迎跟我們分享喔！ 
