Staff

Miu

Joined DEN: April 2026

I work as a barista and love making coffee. My hobbies are going to cafes and playing the ukulele. I'd love to talk with everyone and get to know you all!

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Ayumu

Introduced: August 2026

I'm 23 and from Chiba. I'm really into the outdoors: soccer, snowboarding, hiking, camping. I've met so many great people at hostels while traveling abroad, and I'm looking forward to meeting people here at DEN too.

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Ryota

Joined DEN: November 2025

I love music and go to a lot of live shows and festivals. I also like writing and singing my own songs. Next year I'm heading to Toronto, Canada on a working holiday for music.

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Rento

Joined DEN: August 2025

I joined DEN to get more chances to speak English. Lately I've been into reading books at cafes. My English is still a work in progress, so please feel free to talk to me.

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Hikaru

Joined DEN: October 2025

I'm a university student in Tokyo. I love eating, sleeping, and traveling. I often stayed in guesthouses while traveling and loved meeting people there, which made me want to work at one myself.

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Kurumi

Joined DEN: October 2025

I love traveling and eating. Lately I've been getting into cycling, hiking, and running. Looking forward to talking with everyone!

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Ema

Joined DEN: August 2025

I work as a nurse, and came to DEN after visiting for an event. Lately I've been into running and moving my body.

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Mirei

Joined DEN: August 2025

I love baseball and anime. I'm a university student studying childcare, and I enjoy cheering loudly at baseball games.

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Mio

Joined DEN: June 2025

I love eating, sleeping, and music. I'm on a break from university right now. My recent goals are seeing dinosaurs at the science museum, visiting a planetarium, and seeing lots of sharks.

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Miki

Joined DEN: January 2025

I'm from Kiyose, just barely inside Tokyo. I'm a fourth-year university student and played basketball for 12 years. I love sports and food, so let's do something together.

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Yu

Joined DEN: February 2025

I'm from the Asakusa/Ueno area, really close to DEN, and I often carry the mikoshi at festivals. What I love most is traveling, especially the slow kind where you connect with local people, which is how I ended up working at DEN.

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Kosuke

Joined DEN: November 2024

Born and raised in Tokyo's old downtown, but I love nature and travel, so I'm often away doing trips and resort work. In my student days I mostly backpacked around Asia. My specialty is video editing!

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Sho Ishii

Joined DEN: January 2025

I worked as a data analyst until three years ago, then quit and came to DEN, where I met so many travelers that I wanted to go experience things myself. This year I'm planning a working holiday in Finland, so I started working at DEN partly to practice English.

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Minagi

Joined DEN: November 2024

I'm from Chigasaki in Kanagawa and a third-year university student in Tokyo. I love traveling, guesthouses, fashion, and volleyball (watching, these days). I love the warm atmosphere of guesthouses, and I was lucky to land at DEN, where I'm having a great time.

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Yuka

Joined DEN: around June 2023

From: Aomori. Hobbies: visiting izakaya, singing, campervans, travel. [How I started at DEN] I was touring Japan by campervan, and when I came back to Tokyo a friend introduced me to DEN!

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Manami

Introduced: October 2024

Born and raised in Yomitan, Okinawa. I love my hometown, so please say hi if you're ever heading to Okinawa. I love traveling too, so tell me your favorite countries — I'm always collecting recommendations!

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Max

Introduced: September 2024

I’m from the Netherlands and half English, born and raised in Amsterdam. I was born in 2002, 22 years old now. I’m a professional chef.

CoCo

Joined DEN: around September 2023

I'm from Narashino in Chiba. Things I love: art, especially looking at mural art and making things; cooking, my goal is to travel the world through rice-bowl dishes. My special move: eat, sleep, play.

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Hyeong

Introduced: August 2024

I'm from Daegu in Korea, a city near Busan, kind of like Nagoya in Japan. I came to Japan this January on a working holiday visa. If there's anything you want to ask about Korea or about me, please ask me lots at DEN!

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Cassio

Introduced: June 2024

I’m half Japanese, half German from Brazil and I’ve been in Japan since November 2023! I enjoy socializing, eating and drinking~

Yohei (JOE)

Introduced: May 2024

I quit university to become a backpacker and I'm living as a 21-year-old doing that. At my other part-time job people called me George, so I ended up with a similar nickname at DEN too. My hobbies are travel and pretty much any sport.

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MANA

Joined DEN: around April 2023

It's almost been a year since I started at DEN! Today I'm sharing the DEN Dance Club session that happened by popular request. Both the members who've danced before and the ones who hadn't seemed to have fun, which made me really happy.

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Taka

Introduced: October 2021

Today's event was 'English lecture by Taka — let's write our own self-introductions in a foreign language!' With vaccines starting to take effect, it finally felt like the pandemic might be easing. We wrote self-introductions in English and Spanish.

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SHOTA

Introduced: February 2020

At the time, this was an introduction with just a name and a photo — no further words.

SANMIN

Introduced: February 2020

At the time, this was an introduction with just a name and a photo — no further words.

GIULIANA

Introduced: February 2020

At the time, this was an introduction with just a name and a photo — no further words.

YARA

Introduced: January 2020

At the time, this was an introduction with just a name and a photo — no further words.

MARI

Introduced: January 2020

At the time, this was an introduction with just a name and a photo — no further words.

ERINA

Introduced: November 2019

At the time, this was an introduction with just a name and a photo — no further words.

KAZUMA

Introduced: November 2019

At the time, this was an introduction with just a name and a photo — no further words.

YEONG

Introduced: October 2019

At the time, this was an introduction with just a name and a photo — no further words.

MELLATI

Introduced: October 2019

At the time, this was an introduction with just a name and a photo — no further words.

WASSWA

Introduced: October 2019

At the time, this was an introduction with just a name and a photo — no further words.