Toki no Kakera

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By Taiki Kawasaki (The Fountain staff)
November 20, 2018
Ronnie making a field in Toki no Kakera
Ronnie who is an APU student from Netherlands said “Toki no Kakera was one of the opportunities to enter APU for me.”

Toki no Kakera is a hotel established in 2008 for foreign tourists in Yufuin City of Oita, and Kaz Naito, the owner is a graduate of APU. He always employs volunteer staff from foreign countries as working holiday tourists, and Ronnie is part of the staff there.
In Toki no Kakera, Naito has employed over 300 parts of staff from more than 20 countries since he started his business. In other words, this hotel is also the place that people who come from various nations know and share their cultures with each other.

Employees there have a lot of opportunities to communicate with Japanese people who live around there. For example, they meet residents when they take goats for a walk. Toki no Kakera owns a variety of animals such as chickens and goats, and staffs have to take care of them. He says “this hotel exists not only for being hospitable for guests but also for making foreign young people find something interesting there”.
Recently, Kaz has started a new project in his hotel to make the best of his career as a drone instructor. This project is “Drone Hotel”. In this project, he made the place to connect people who play drone in Kyushu Area by connecting drones and a hotel.

On Nov. 14, he started Drone Hotel as pre-opening. Guests talked about drones and shared their videos taken by their drones in that night, having dinner used special products in Oita and taking a hot spring. Next morning, they flew their drones and took videos of the viewing in Yufuin.
Kaz says “I want to make this hotel as turning points of many people”. This is why he makes the events like Drone Hotel here.


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