Hello everyone! Welcome to the Mysterious Land of the Far East, Japan 🇯🇵

We’re a couple who love traveling and meeting new people.

Koki👨 is from Ehime prefecture which is located near Hiroshima. He’d been living in Tokyo and Kanagawa since he was 18 years old. He was a strategist and planner in educational field

Koki👩 is from Kanagawa prefecture which is located next to Tokyo. She was working in IT field.

We did a whole year trip around the world from 2023 to 2024✈️ That was a big decision in our life, but it gave us a lot of irreplaceable memories🫶

Whenever we travel, we try to meet local people and experience something local. Having friends that we want to see again is worth more to us than staying in a fancy hotel.

If you’re looking for some good local restaurants, bars and any experience, let us know! We can help you.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meeting people means to know new world.
This is the reason why we traveling around the world.
We really like to know local culture and local people's story rather than just spend time in hotel and tourist spot.

And also As we experience the long journey around the world, we started to realize how unique (sometimes I can say weird) Japan is. So we really want to be helpful for visitors to understand our culture.

Interests

【Koki’s Interests】
Football, people, local experiences

【Ray’s Interests】
Cooking, local experiences, music

• local food
• local people
• culuture
• local festival

Music, Movies, and Books

【Koki’s peferebce】
🎵-------J-pop, Bruno Mars, Jason Mraz
🎬-------Forrest Gump, Studio Ghibli movies
📚-------too many to describe here

【Ray’s preference】
🎵-------J-pop, Charlie Puth, classical music
🎬-------About Time, Ameri
📚-------Haruki Murakami’s essay

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Staying in Maasai tribe village for 7 days🇰🇪
Participated festival type of funeral in Ghana🇬🇭
Going to a 100+ degree public sauna and jumping into the lake🇫🇮
Seeing the Northern Lights in Iceland🇮🇸
Joining the carnival of Rio de Janeiro until 7AM🇧🇷

Not one though😂

Teach, Learn, Share

Our travel story, information about Tokyo area, tips to get a cheap flight, how to cook Japanese food, wearing Japanese traditional dress experience, Writing your name in Japanese calligraphy style…

What I Can Share with Hosts

Japanese food. Japanese dress, Japanese calligraphy, camera video.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Norway, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, Japan, Philippines