Filip’s mellow life in Tsubaki Gardens

with only 1 room empty for the weekend, tsukaki gardens has never been more crowded than now.  While the tourists at Nippori are going to see the sumida fireworks,  the guests in kamata enjoy the local matsuri in kamata tonight !  The whole week we could observe preparations for drums, dance and mikoshi (portable shrines).  The matsuri itself is a parade in which people are dancing, jumping, screaming, playing instruments and especially sweating Probably that s why all this has traditionally to be followed  by …… a lot of drinking.   Well if that s the way to celebrate the gods, why not ?

officially we changed on our website that we do not take reservations if it is for less than a week.  Because there are only a couple of rooms available we cannot book for just 1 or 2 nights in august.   Perhaps tsubaki gardens is getting too popular (joke ; )    

In nippori mainly long-term-summer-holiday-travellers this month and next month.  In Kamata mainly long term people .  therefore the  atmosphere in both guesthouses is very different.   I am going back and forward all the time ,    and when I am in the one guesthouse I actually miss the other ; )   

summer is around the corner and we have a whole lot of tourists booked in our nippori guesthouse.  Since Nippori opened less than a month ago, everything has to go fast.  Still now everyday we are changing small things to make our guests stay nicer and more comfortable.