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Series · 2011

Hanasaku Iroha

花咲くいろは

Genres:Drama
Five young women stand outside a traditional inn.
(C)花いろ旅館組合

Sent to her grandmother's hot-spring inn, Ohana discovers that living with family also means joining a demanding hospitality workplace.

Sixteen-year-old Ohana leaves Tokyo for Kissuiso. Her grandmother and the inn's staff give her a new home, practical responsibilities and relationships she cannot simply observe from outside.

A short-haired girl wearing a yellow apron stands in a kitchen.
The inn's domestic rooms are also working spaces. (C)花いろ旅館組合

Kissuiso is both a family address and a business. That overlap gives Ohana's arrival two kinds of stakes: finding a place among unfamiliar people and learning what guests and colleagues expect from her. The story follows work inside the inn alongside the students' personal relationships. Choose it for an ensemble drama organised around hospitality work and a young newcomer learning how to contribute.

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