CURRENT MISSION

Be positive, Flexibly thinking

ABOUT ME

Hello. My name is Kenichi . I studied English and Spanish in university of foregin language.But my foregin language skill is not so good, because more than ten years have passed since study in university.

Now I have Japanese restaurant with 1 star on micchellin guide Hyogo edition .Chef and manager is my role.

website of my Restaurant. (English page is now preparing)
http://www.kokochiyo.jp
http://www.kokochiyo.jp/info/access.html (how to access)

I also worked as web designer for about 3 years.
This website is produced by me. Also foto.

My house is located next to the restaurant, and you can sleep on 2nd floor.
I live with my wife and child(2 years old), one cat.

I love verseas trip.
I visited Spain (3 times), Morocco, Switzerland, Cuba, Mexico, Turkey,Egypt, Czech, Hungary,Poland, India ,Thailand.
Especially I love Barcelona. with its culture, beautiful townscape,food.

I wellcome you only during the offseason of my restaurant (Mar,Apr, Sep,Oct,Nov)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

recommendation from my friend

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

This is first time.

Interests

---Travel---
Being impressed by wonderful scenery , staying in quiet space, being separated from daily routine task. Thease are necessary sometime to keep my mental fresh.

---Business---
I worked as web disigner, director at Osaka for 4 years and gained design skill, experienece.
After that I worked at authentic Japanes restaurant in Kyoto for 3 years, and gained skill and experience.
Now I manage my Japanese restaurant for success.

I think passion for business if very important. Generally many hours are passed in working in one's life.
I wanna be positive in working time. I dont wanna feel pain in jobs.

• culture
• design
• cooking
• traveling
• business
• webdesign

Music, Movies, and Books

Salsa Jazz
Haruki Murakami

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Beautiful scenary from top of schilthorn (2900m high mountai) in Switzerland.
Landscape of Sahara desert in Morocco.

What I Can Share with Hosts

guest room with bed. (2person maximum)
toilet. bathroom.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan