International exchange × no guarantor × fully furnished in Kobe share House

A share House is finally opened in Kobe Motomachi for the first time on 15th of September.

Hello, this is Yuuka from Borderless House Kansai Office.
This time, I went to the brand new share accommodation in Kobe Motomachi!

First blog:
International atmosphere!! New international exchange share house opens in Kobe!

Second blog:
International exchange share house × Kobe vegetable! In Motomachi Kobe Japan

And this is the third blog introducing rooms for this accommodation and Borderless House’ s features for those who want to know the share house’s daily life.

The rooms Before☆After

This is the room that I showed in the first blog. It’s very simple with no furniture.


But now, it is fully furnished!

※This is the room for 2males with 2 singe beds. (Most of the shared rooms ordinarily use loft beds)

And then, the cozy and comfortable living room!

Here is the vegetables only refrigerator, where vegetables delivered from farmers will be stored.

If you would like to see the other rooms of this accommodation, please refer to the website below.

Borderless House Kobe Motomachi
http://www.borderless-house-zh.com/jp/sharehouse/h/kobe-motomachi/

Enjoy international exchange and the feature of Borderless House!

In fact, Borderless House’s 10th anniversary is this year!

Those Japanese who want to make foreign friends and interact with them, those foreigners who want to make Japanese friends and have difficulties with renting because of guarantor issues.

Borderless House wants to connect these people and established the share accommodation business.

※Borderless House Kyoto Kamigamo(Summer2017)

Although this is the first time opening the share accommodation in Kobe, there are more or less 80 Borderless Houses in Japan.

We have a lot of programs such as free accommodation in Korea and Taiwan, language exchange and balancing the ratio of Japanese and foreign tenants 50:50 to maximize international exchange enjoyment!

Surprises everyday! Lots of fun!

Speaking of share houses, you would think there are tenants who move in because of cheaper rent and no guarantors. However, most tenants in Borderless House have motivation for interacting with other tenants from all over the world!

We talk with tenants before their move-in via video chat to introduce our features, whether they’re living in the mountains of Thailand, the Mediterranean sea or outer space!haha

If there are people who want to live in a share accommodation for travel only or the cheapest one, we sometimes recommend another share house which is most suitable to their preferences even if we have vacancies.

Therefore, many tenants have unique ideas for fun! I think they are experts at enjoying life! For example, this picture shows preparations for a Nagashi-soomen(flowing noodles) using a pool inside the share accommodation!

What is this?! I’m not a child anymore, but I was excited!

Next, there was a takoyaki party with firework viewing tenants from other share houses!

Borderless House tenants have a lot of chances to make new friends because there are many other share accommodation in Japan!

Next, everybody’s great faces!

Awsome! One of the tenants took a picture when they were having a welcome and farewell party!

Won’t you join Borderless House life where you can enjoy the international atmosphere in Kobe? We are looking forward to whatever happen in the Kobe share accommodation.

Why don’t you check out our website below?!

Although I only planned to write 3 blogs, the 4th blog is coming soon because we have a lot of things that we want to share with you about Kobe!
I hope you will enjoy the next blog!

<Borderless House Kobe Motomachi>
http://www.borderless-house-zh.com/jp/sharehouse/h/kobe-motomachi/

We also have an official Instagram & Facebook page, please check it out!

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/borderlesshouse-zh.com/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/BORDERLESS-HOUSE-in-Tokyo-Japan

*HOUSE EXCHANGE* Daniel – Kyoto to Seoul

House Exchange from Kyoto to Seoul!

  Hello, this is Share House Borderless House! Our tenant staying in Kansai, Daniel has been to Seoul for a week by house exchange program! He has shared his precious memories with housemates in Share house in Seoul, and gave us some nice pictures taken in Seoul after a trip. Let’s see how was his trip to Seoul and what he felt in Seoul! Hello, everyone! My name is Daniel and I am currently staying in Borderless Share house Osaka. I came Kyoto to study Japanese and learning new language is always so hard. So I decided to visit Seoul for my short holidays! I had stayed in one of share houses of Borderless House Seoul for my trip. I would like to share some moments of my trip with everyone! When I visited Seoul, it was rainy season and sometimes it was really hard to walk around. But when I visited the palace, the weather was really awesome! The palace I have visited has unique atmosphere with great weather. I was really happy to take pictures during the time walk around the palace. Share house where I have stayed in Seoul was near Hongdae. Hongdae 4 house has really great access to famous area in Seoul! Especially to Hongdae, it takes only around 5 minutes by walk. The picture is the center of Hongdae, and I was on my way to have fancy dinner! The place I loved most was the market. I could meet many local people there and could feel real Seoul. People who sells fish were really kind! They kept ask me to have some raw fish when they clean fish. Do not miss trying delicious dishes in the market! I had Jeon which is cooked fish and vegetables with egg and flour. It was so nice and I could drink a lot with these Jeon! I was so busy during the day and my housemates also had their schedule. So we always met in the night time and loved to have a conversation and drink! We enjoyed to visit fancy restaurants together and the picture is the moment we visited Han-river! They recommend me to have “Chimaek” which is having Fried Chicken and Beer!   I love traveling, but it was my first time to stay in Share house. It was really awesome because I could meet many local tenants in Seoul! After this trip, I am planning to visit Taipei with this program again! If you are a tenant of Borderless House, why don’t you try it?     * Only for tenant * If you want to join our House exchange program, feel free to contact us! Always welcome! Please refer to the link below for more information. http://www.borderless-house.com/houseexchange    

About female only share houses only in Borderless House Seoul! -Yeongdeungpo, Jongno area

About Female Only Share House only in Borderless House Seoul!

Hello, this is Borderless House Seoul! Here is the last posting of ours which is about female only house in Seoul! If your University or office is near subway line No.2,5, what about staying in Yeongdeungpo area? And there is also a house is located in Jongno area, where you can easily get to Jongno, Seodaemun area.   Yeongdeungpo 1,3  houses are located near Yeongdeungpo Gu-cheong station subway line No.2,5. From this house, you can easily get to Universities located near the station of subway line No.2, such as Yonsei, Ewha, Hongik, SNU etc. And also, you can easily get to famous areas in Seoul, such as Gangnam and Hongdae area. These two houses located in same building, but different floors. This cozy apartment typed house has four rooms, and this is the double room. This double room has its own bathroom and dressroom, and it is really convenient! It has two bunker beds, desks, chairs, shelves and hangers you can hang your clothes. If you are worrying about sharing bathroom with many people, we would like to recommend this room for you! This private room has larger space compares to other private rooms of ours. It has a single bed, a desk, a chair, a shelf and hangers you can hang your clothes. If you would like to stay in share house, but you need your own place, we highly recommend to stay in a private room! If you need more information for the other rooms and about this cozy house, please refer the link below: http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/sharehouse/h/yeongdeungpo-gucheon1/ http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/sharehouse/h/yeongdeungpo3/ Introduce our Jongno 1 house located near Sinseoldong station subway line No.2, and Dongmyo-ap station subway line No.1,6. The closest University from this house is SKKU, Dongguk and also Universities in  Dongdaemun area. This house is always fully booked, and it is one of the most popular houses of ours! This high-rised apartment typed house has big windows in every room. It will give you fresh feeling in the morning! This double room has its own bathroom and dressroom inside, and there are big closets on the wall. It has cozy and stylish kitchen! What about cooking dishes with housemates and having it together? It will make you closer to your housemates, and great memories.  

If you need more information for this house, please refer our website from the link below:

http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/sharehouse/h/jongno1/

* Only for Female

If you need more information for those houses or want us to give you more information of female only share house in Seoul, Please refer to the link below for contacting staff of Borderless House Seoul! http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/introduceform/

Language Exchange with Global Overseas Adoptees Link

Language Exchange with Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link!

Hello, this is Borderless House Seoul! As you might already know, there are three Tenants-Only Programs only for the tenants who are staying in Borderless House. From those programs, we would like to share one of our latest orientation we had with a member of an organization which is called Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link! We normally match a tenant to other tenant for Language Exchange. But this time, we had a chance to work together with Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link! So we are going to participate one of their famous and important program holding for adoptees, ‘Motherland Tour’ and also, we are going to match our tenants who are interested in Language Exchange to their members who are  interested in this program either. Before sharing this wonderful experience with Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link, we would like to introduce this organization briefly to all of you. Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link (G.O.A.’L) is an organization founded in Seoul, South Korea. Since it is founded by Adoptee and founded for Adoptee, they are offering many services for adoptee who is searching for their birth family such as Birth family search assistance/ translation & interpretation, visa procedure and Social gathering etc. And this time, we had an orientation for Language Exchange Program between our tenant Minkyeong and Ellyn from Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link. Minkyeong is currently staying in one of share houses in Borderless, and Ellyn is from USA and currently working as a English teacher in Seoul. Minkyeong has an experience of staying in USA for her exchange semester in University, so they had conversation to share their experience of staying in USA. Also, Ellyn had shared her hilarious experience in Seoul for us. It was their first time to meet each other, but there were so friendly! They had about 3 hours of orientation in Borderless House Seoul office, and they said they will have a dinner together in a few days. We hope them improve their language skill and be a good friend for each other!

* Tenants Only Program

If you need more information for language exchange program, or if you want to apply for this program, please refer the link from the below for contacting staff of Borderless House! http://www.borderless-house.com/languageexchange/

Real share house life report introduced by a tenant

Hello.
This is Hyesoon from BORDERLESS HOUSE Kansai office.

I guess there are many people thinking like this “I’m interested in a share house but what kind of people are living like”

So, here is the second blog which written by Nami who lives in Borderless House Kyoto Kamigamo!
She wrote in detail about the daily life of the share house.

Let’s see one day of the share house‼

It is a report of Nami who is one of the tenants of Borderless House

This is Nami who is a tenant of Borderless House Kyoto Kamigamo.
It’s kind of sudden, what kind of image do you have about living in a share house?
When I started living in a share house, my friends asked me “Do you have a party everyday?” “Is it like a terrace house?”

So, this time I would like to tell you what kind of life in BORDERLESS HOUSE Kyoto Kamigamo.

■ 7: 00 ~ begin to hear the share mate’s preparation sound

From around 7:00am, I hear the footsteps and conversation of the roommates.
There are not only students but also business person.
And each of them get ready to go such as eating break fast or taking shower.

Normally, there are more or less three people in the living room at 7:00am, most of them get up at around 8:00am.
Since my time to go to university is not fixed,
when getting up early, I stay in the room and read books, study and do some work until everyone comes up.

■10:00~ Free time

After finishing the breakfast, it’s a time to relax. There are some people who have already left school or work.
On the other hand, some tenants have classes in the afternoon. They take a time as they like such as using personal computer, watching TV and studying.
For my case, my class started from in the afternoon, I thought taking a blanch with my friends at university! And then, I prepared for it and went out!

■ 18: 00 ~ Share mates do homework as soon as coming back home!

I went straight back home.
They always do their homework in the living room as soon as they get home. (Holding a study group for Japanese!) I often teach Japanese while cooking, and they also help me when I study art literature which was written in French and English.

The kitchen has never crowded until now, because the time each tenant comes back is different.
Some tenants sometimes share their meals and we often have cooking parties.

■ 20: 00 ~ cozy timeAfter dinner and finishing homeworks,

we have a good time with everyone such as watching TV together, talking about events that happened today. Most of tenants come back home around this time.
Everyone says Tadaima(I’m home) and Okaeri(well come back) when tenants come back home.

I think it is the share house-specific!

Everyone drank delicious sakes or ate snacks.

The time refreshed me completely!

■24:00~ Good night!

As expected, it was time to go to bed.
Oyasumi nasai (good night).

I think there are pros and cons of living in share house, but it depends on you whether the share house life will be good or not. Why don’t you discover new things at the share house?

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So, how do you think?
It was the story that you can see real daily share house life, wasn’t it?!

Borderless House is available for staying from 1 month!
If you are interested in the house, why don’t you come a room-viewing and ask questions directly to tenants and our staff about life at the share house?

There are rooms available from now!! ↓ ↓ ↓

<Borderless House Osaka Toyonaka 1>
**10 minutes to go to Osaka station and there is a free Japanese class at the closest station of the house.
<Borderless House Osaka Toyonaka 1>

**Good access to anywhere in Osaka city
<Borderless House Osaka Tsuruhashi 1>

**Only female floor available,
<Borderless House Osaka Tamatsukuri>

International Bowling Competition! with tenants from each Kansai share houses

Hello, this is Yuuka from Borderless House!

We listened to the voice that tenants want to interact with other tenants living in other houses so we held a team competing bowling competition in Osaka on July 9th!

Hello, Annyeonghaseyo, Bonjour, multiple languages

On that day, tenants from various countries such as Japan, Korea, Belgium, Netherlands,etc from a total of 4 houses gathered! (Kyoto Kamigamo House, Osaka Tamatsukuri House, Osaka Tsuruhashi House, Osaka Toyonaka House.)

Borderless House is a share house based on international exchange concept. As people with various backgrounds live together, they can learn each languages everyday and enjoy exchange culture while making their own cuisines.

It is the biggest feature of the house that you can enjoy intercultural exchanges!

Borderless House-specific! International team name!

We divided the members into three teams, and they thought about the team name!

“Team ☆ Turkey!” It is expressed that they want to take the turkey and win!
“Team ☆ Yotchon!”   ….?
“Team ☆ Pen Pen!”   ….? ?There are team names that we can not hear normally…

I heard the meaning from each team, ‘Yotchon’ is Korean and means ‘coming from behind to win’.
And “Pen Pen!”, it was said that it was decided by a tenant from the Netherlands who answered the question;“what is your favorite word in Japanese?”.There is a present on the winning team and the lowest team have to do penalty game, so everyone is motivated for victory!

Heat up much

It was the start of bowling!However, if it only competes for points, it will be a competition only for ability. If someone is a good bowler, you can only pray for a gutter…Therefore, we set up a special rule this time!that was…..

”Prohibited use of dominant hand!”stick! Those who have passed this must play with non-dominant hand.

Those who are handed down were disappointed…

those who hand it was grinning♪

It is available for the other team up to twice per game for each team.

Throwing a bowl at a person who is not a dominant hand will not be able to make a good performance at all, such as becoming the gutter!(It is as expected!)Everyone enjoyed the bowling tournament while using the stick!

A wonderful striker – ー ー ー ー ー ー ー ー ー!

There are also tenants who get prizes!They also enjoyed talking to each other during a little break between the games.
And there was a team who was thinking as to who would use that stick the next while laughing grinningly.

How! There were also strong men who took the turkey twice! All of the team members were excited!Every team aimed hard to win to the end and did best!

Which team won? Result announcement!

After the heated game, the winner was …

“Team ☆ Yotchon”

The score of the first one was losing to the other team, but like the name of the team, they made a comeback to win!
Congratulations!

On the other hand, the lowest place is …..

Team ☆ Pen Pen!

Then, please have wasabi(Japanese horseradish) puffed creams as a penalty !

I’m sorry, but I can not show you their reaction after eating…..

Turning over a new leaf and everyone took a group picture together at the end!

Even after the bowling, everyone went to eat out and it seemed to have continued interaction!
And I have a feeling that fun exchanges are going to happen in the future!
It is because the tenants were talking about planning to have a barbecue together in this summer.Thank you very much for everyone!!

Availability of share house room

Currently in the Borderless House Kansai, there are houses from more than 20 large share houses to 8 people share houses, especially for people who are concerned about share house life for the first time, we recommend a small large share house that you can easily open up to tenants.Although it is a little left, If you are interested in our share house, please visit our website below!

<Borderless House Osaka Toyonaka>
http://www.borderless-house-zh.com/jp/sharehouse/h/toyonaka1/

This house has a kitchen facing the living room and tenants can talk about daily life events each other there! (There are french pancake, Korean cuisine, Okonomiyaki party etc. Currently there are many interactions through various countries’ food!)




<Borderless House Osaka Tsuruhashi>
http://www.borderless-house-zh.com/jp/sharehouse/h/tsuruhashi1/

Osaka Tsuruhashi House where is good access anywhere in Osaka and you can enjoy going out together with tenants such as shopping, restaurants…etc
(Currently there is also exchange through sports!)




<Borderless House Kobe-Motomachi>
http://www.borderless-house-zh.com/jp/sharehouse/h/kobe-motomachi

A new open share house which is located in just 4-minute walk from JR/ Hanshin Motomachi station. This house is for 13 people and has a concept “International Exchange ×  Agriculture”.

About female only share houses only in Borderless House Seoul! -Gangnam area

About Female Only Share House only in Borderless House Seoul!

Hello, this is Borderless House Seoul! Are you searching for a place to stay in Seoul, especially in Gangnam area? Since Gangnam area is one of the expensive area in Seoul, you might be hard to search a place with reasonable rent. And if you prefer to stay only with female housemates, it will be harder to find out good place to stay. But, now you do not have to be worried anymore! Among 25 share houses in Borderless House Seoul, half of the houses are female only. And two of them are located in Gangnam, so we would like to introduce our Gangnam 2 and Gangnam 3 house located in Gangnam area! This is Gangnam 2 house located near Maebong station subway line No.3. From this house, you can easily get to Gangnam, Yeoksam and Apgujeong where are the famous areas in Seoul, especially in Gangnam area. This cozy mension typed house has four rooms, and this is the first room. This private room has larger space compares to other private rooms of ours. It has a single bed, a desk, a chair, a shelf and hangers you can hang your clothes. If you would like to stay in share house, but you need your own place, we highly recommend to stay in a private room! There is one more private room in Gangnam 2 house, and it is a bit smaller than this room. But it offers much lower rent than other private rooms, so if you would like to save money for housing, we highly recommend this room. We have two double rooms in Gangnam 2 house. Those rooms have same condition, but the only difference is the bathroom. One double room has its own bathroom inside, and it will be with your roommate only! Tenants in other three rooms will share a bathroom in living room together.   If you need more information for the other rooms and about this cozy house, please refer the link below: http://www.borderless-house.kr/kr/sharehouse/h/gangnam2/ Introduce our Gangnam 3 house located near Hakdong station subway line No.7. The closest University from this house is Konkuk University, and also Sejong University. This house is always fully booked, and it is one of the most popular house of ours! This house will give you antique and cozy atmosphere. You can see from the picture of the kitchen in Gangnam 3 house, it is furnished with a wooden materials. You can cook foods with your housemates and have it! There are two double rooms and two private rooms in this house. This is the picture of one of double rooms, and it has a double deck bed. The best opportunities of staying in this room is Sunshine. This room is well-lighted, so it will give you fresh feeling all days. If you need your own place to take a rest and chill, what about a private room? You can stay with many housemates in the shared area, living room and kitchen. And during the night time or whenever you want, you can have your own time and space. Are you going to attend Konkuk or Sejong University? Or are you planning to stay in Gangnam area for other purpose? Then what about our cozy Gangnam 3 house? Make many good memories with housemates in this cozy female only share house! If you need more information for this house, please refer our website from the link below: http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/sharehouse/h/gangnam3/  

* Only for Female

If you need more information for those houses or want us to give you more information of female only share house in Seoul, Please refer to the link below for contacting staff of Borderless House Seoul! http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/introduceform/  

About female only share houses only in Borderless House Seoul! -Hongdae area

About Female Only Share House only in Borderless House Seoul!

Hello, this is Borderless House Seoul! We would like to introduce our female only share houses in Seoul! Here in Seoul, we have some houses only for female tenants! Among 25 share houses in Borderless House Seoul, half of the houses are female only. Now, we would like to introduce our female only share house in Hongdae!

Hongdae 1 share house located in Hongdae area.

The closest station from this cozy mension typed house is Hapjeong station line No.2,6. There are three types of rooms, a triple room, a double room and a private room. And it has really great access to the Universities, such as Hongik, Yonsei, Ewha and Sogang! This is a triple room in Hongdae 1 house. This room has its own bathroom inside! If you need more information for the other rooms and about this house, please refer the link below: http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/sharehouse/h/hongdae1/

Hongdae 3 share house

This house is also cozy mension typed and located near Mangwon station line No.6. It has really good access to the Universities such as Sogang, Sookmyung (without transfer), Hongik, Yonsei and Ewha (by bus or subway)! This room is a triple room in Hongdae 3 house. It has its own bathroom and dressroom inside, so there is no worrying for busy bathroom! If you are a student of Sogang, Sookmyung or any other University in Hongdae area? Then what about our Hongdae 3 share house? Please refer the link below for more information for this house! http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/sharehouse/h/hongdae3/  

Hongdae DMC 1 house near Digital Media City station line 6, Gyeongui and Airport railroad.

This luxurious apartment typed house has its own gym in the first floor.

And security guard is always there in the first floor of the building. If you are worrying for security, we highly recommend this house for you! It has good access to Yonsei, Ewha, Sogang, Hongik University etc. This is a double room in the Hongdae DMC 1 House! The best thing to stay in this house is sunshine because all the rooms are really well-lighted! If you need more details of this house and would like to know how the other rooms are, please refer the link below to get more information! http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/sharehouse/h/hongdaedmc1/  

Introduce our Hongdae DMC 2 House

This cozy mension typed house is located near Saejeol station line No.6! It has really good access to Hongdae, Sinchon and Itaewon area by bus and subway. The closest University is Myonji and it has also good access to Sogang, Sookmyung etc. This is a triple room in Hongdae DMC 2 House! It has a bunker bed and a double-deck bed in the room. And it has its own bathroom and dressroom inside! If you are searching for a place which has good access to Hongdae and Sinchon area with lower rent than the others, why do not check the website for this house? Please refer the link below for getting more information for this house! http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/sharehouse/h/hongdaedmc2/  

Hongdae DMC 3 house located near Yeokchong and Gusan station line No.6.

It has good access to Myonji University, and also to Yeonshinnae and Hongdae area. House type is cozy mension typed, and its size is quite larger than the other houses. This is a triple room in Hongdae DMC 3 house. It has two double-deck beds and its own bathroom inside. If you would like to have many roommates and would like to have many good memories, we highly recommend this house for you! Please check the website for this house from the link below: http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/sharehouse/h/hongdaedmc3/ * Only for Female If you need more information for those houses or want us to give you more information of female only share house in Seoul, Please refer to the link below for contacting staff of Borderless House Seoul! http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/introduceform/

About female only share houses only in Borderless House Seoul! -Dongdaemun area

About Female Only Share House only in Borderless House Seoul!

Hello, this is Borderless House Seoul! We would like to introduce our female only share houses in Seoul! Here in Seoul, we have some houses only for female tenants! Among 26 share houses in Borderless House Seoul, half of the houses are female only. Now, we would like to introduce our female only share house in Dongdaemun area! This is Our Wangsimni 1 house located in Dongdaemun area. This female only house is charming apartment typed house. There are three types of rooms, a triple room, a double room and a private room. And it has really great access to some Universities, such as Hanyang, Korea and HUFS! This is a triple room in Wangsimni 1 house. This room has its own bathroom and dressroom inside! If you need more information for the other rooms and about this house, please refer the link below: http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/sharehouse/h/wangsimni1/ This is our Koryodae 1 share house! This house is luxurious apartment typed located near Bomun station subway line No.6. It has really great access to Korea University, and it takes about 15 minutes to the main gate of Korea University by walk. You can easily get to SKKU,  HUFS, Kyeonghee University from this house! This room is a triple room in Koryodae 1 house. It has its own bathroom inside, so there is no worrying for busy bathroom! If you are a student of Korea University or any other University located in Dongdaemun area? Then what about our Koryodae 1 share house? Please refer the link below for more information for this house! http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/sharehouse/h/koryodae1/ This is the last female only share house of ours which is located in Dongdaemun area. This Koryodae 3 house is cozy mension typed share house, and it has really amazing access to Korea University! Not only for it, you can easily get to Kyeonghee Univeristy and HUFS from this house! This room is a double room for two female tenants. It has its own balcony and two single beds for each tenants. Make many good memories with housemates from all around the world in this house! Please check the other information from the link below: http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/sharehouse/h/koryodae3/ * Only for Female If you need more information for those houses or want us to give you more information of female only share house in Seoul, Please refer to the link below for contacting staff of Borderless House Seoul! http://www.borderless-house.com/kr/introduceform/

Make great use of non-standard vegetables! Wagashi(Japanese sweets) making event at Kyoto Kamigamo House!

Hello, this is Suguru from Borderless House.

One month passed from “the Kimono dressing event” that ended in a great success.

“Wagashi(Japanese sweets) making ” Event was held at Borderless House Kyoto Kamigamo on June 4th.”
Thanks to the cooperation of Dekovege Cafe(でこべじカフェ) from Kyoto University, we were able to hold it.

There are some vegetables that can not be sold in shops because of its appearance such as “shape is irregular”, “too big”, “too small”. We call the vegetables “non-standard vegetables”. Dekovege Cafe(でこべじカフェ) buys the non-standard vegetables and regularly holds a cafe and cooking classes in various place.

On the day, a total of 31 people come to the event – not only tenants of Kyoto Kamigamo House, but people from other houses as well as neighbors participated.
They tried to make Dorayaki and Ichigo Daifuku! *Dorayaki – pancakes stuffed with sweet bean paste
*Ichigo Daifuku – consisting of a strawberry inside ‘daifuku’, which is a rice cake stuffed with sweet bean paste.
(In this time, we cooked tomatoes jam instead of sweet bean paste)

I will introduce the whole Wagashi making event (including Tea party and Drawing relay competition ) with photographs!

 Kyoto Kamigamo House style!? Using nicknames makes each other close.

First of all, we worked on 3 teams; making Droayaki dumpling bean pasteDorayaki dough making, and strawberry Daifuku team.

It started to introduce themselves.

In order to complete the cooking, team work is necessary more than anything!
However … It is difficult for both Japanese and foreigners to remember their names….

To solve the problem, we used Kyoto Kamigamo House style which is a way to call each other with a nickname. Although there are more than 20 people in the House, using nicknames made each other close and easy to memorize their names.

For example, there are some humorous nicknames, one of tenants is from Italy and the first name begins with “Chi” so that her nickname is “cheese“. The other one is “Natto Man” because he eat natto(fermented soybeans) every day in every meals. Moreover, Flo is included in his name, so that he is called “furo(Bath in Japanese)” !

Calling with a nickname made each other close, soon after self-introduction, one team took self-shots!

After the self-introduction, let’s cooking!

It looks ugly, but taste is good!

Start cooking with the guidance of Dekovege Cafe staff!
There are lots of vegetables that are thrown away when their shape is ugly, but the taste is good! We cooked using such vegetables in this event!

One of tenants interpreted the menu described in English to a neighbor!

Most of tenants often cook their own meals. However there are a lot of delicate works in making sweets, so that neighbors and staff of Dekovege cafe helped and taught them.

All of participants were concentrating on the explanation of the staff!

Have you successfully made the shape of Daifuku well?

Everyone in the Dorayaki dough making team!

Finally completed!

After cooking, they ate Wagashi that they made together!

Ichigo Daifuku that we made together is delicious.
I enjoyed making the sweets with tenants of the share house!
There are a lot of voices that satisfy the making of Wagashi (Japanese sweets)!

We really appreciate Dekovege Cafe that gave us kindly guidance!

Who did you make a mistake? Drawing relay competition that was a great success

At the end of the tea party, “Team competing drawing relay contest” was held.

The rules are simple!
Members of each team decide numbers from 1 to 8. First of all, No. 1 person can see a subject and draw the picture. Next, connect the picture to the direction No. 2, No.3…., and the last person (No.8) guess what the theme is and answer.

The subject was “rhinoceros

This was the third term game and all three teams are at the top, so everyone was seriously working towards winning!

Rhinoceros(No.1)

Rhinoceros…….?(No.4)

???(No.7)

And the answer of Droayaki dumpling bean paste team is ..

“”””Unicorn “”” That was so funny we couldn’t stop laughing!

Is the picture strange from this point?
Come on!~ Daniel ~ !!
After answering, everyone check where they were getting funny!

It is a game that everyone in the team cooperates and gets the correct answer.
While I was in charge of the moderator, I was pleased to see the situation where everyone was working hard and looked fun with team members!

Finally, it was the time to announce the result of this game!

The victorious team is……………….


Dorayaki dough making team!

Ichigo Daifuku team in 2nd place!
Thanks to S-san (middle photo) who was 88 years old, this team made it to the place!

As you know the funny answer, Droayaki dumpling bean paste team is 3rd place!

In this event, we learned that there are many vegetables that are discarded if the shape is ugly and non-standard. And, even if the Japanese person, it was a nice experience that made Wagashi with such vegetables!
Thank you again for the cooperation of Dekovege Cafe san!

Also, “multi-generation and multicultural communication” that was another purpose of this event.

I think that it was good opportunities to tell own thoughts to the other party with communication that  is not only in languages such as English and Japanese, but also through body language.

Borderless House Kyoto Kamigamo wants to grow with the community while cooperating with tenants and local residents! We are planning to held fun events for both our tenants and neighbors in the future!

For student organizations that are active for international exchange and conduct activities teaching Japanese culture,why don’t you hold an event together?
Please contact us from the URL below!

http://www.borderless-house-zh.com/jp/kamigamo/kamigamo_partner/

In addition, there are two Borderless Houses in Kyoto “Kyoto Kamigamo House” and “Kyoto Hanazono House”!

For those who want to improve language skills, are interested in share house and international exchange, please check the house information below!

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