Today, I’d like to introduce a share house just a short walk from Maiko Station.
I’d like to introduce Grand Blue.

2024.2.28 Rewritten, information added!
・Double glazed windows installed in all rooms.
・Living room expansion remodeling

Please take a look at this blog post to learn more about the overall concept and introduction of Kobe Sharehouse WARAI.
What is Kobe Sharehouse WARAI?
https://sharehouse-warai.com/kobe-share-house-warai

Exterior

[Beautiful scenery] Sea and sky, Akashi Kaikyo Bridge and Awaji Island

4 minutes walk from JR Maiko station and Sanyo Maiko Koen station.
On the way from the station to the house, you can see Awaji Island, the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, and a magnificent view of the ocean.

「Some photos (views and rooms) courtesy of Oshare Omoshirofudosanmedia Hitsuji Real Estate. 」

JR Maiko Station, where the rapid train also stops, is 15 minutes to Kobe Station, 45 minutes to Osaka Station, and 36 minutes to Himeji Station,
It is a very convenient place for commuting to work or school.

Concept★International exchange with foreigners. A share house where you can speak English in your daily life.

From the fall of 2023,
Share House WARAI GRAND BLU will be opening a new concept, Share House WARAI GRAND BLU

We have a new concept,

“International exchange with foreigners. share house where you can speak English in your daily life”.

and one of the seven rooms will be reserved for a foreigner who is fluent in English!

For the first foreign sharemate,
5,000 yen discount on rent♪

• For Japanese who want to live with a foreigner
• For foreigners who are looking for a share house in Japan

If you know someone who is looking for a share house in Japan, please let us know,
If you know someone who is looking for a share house in Japan, please introduce them to WARAI GRAND BLU.

In the spring of 2023, we will be fully remodeling the bathrooms and upgrading the interior design of the common areas.
We highly recommend WARAI Grand Blue!

Rooms

Mix male/female building, capacity of 7 people

(One of the two bathrooms and toilets is for women only.)

Please click here for the availability, rent and other expenses for each room.
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シェアハウス和楽居　空室状況

All rooms have been remodeled with plaster on the walls.
All Western-style rooms have been refinished with solid cedar flooring!

South Wing 4 rooms

Room101 6 tatami mats: Japanese-style room

Rent : 46,000 yen
Interior : Plaster wall, Tatami mat
Facilities : Air conditioner, closet (oversized)

This is a large Japanese-style room. The closet is also oversized. You can live comfortably as it is located far from the common area. Good sunlight.

101 From the entrance side

Room201 3.5 tatami mats: Western-style room

Rent : 36,000 yen
Interior : Plaster wall, Solid Japanese cedar flooring
Facilities : Air conditioner, closet (medium size), half-tatami-mat board room, veranda, ceiling fan

The ceiling was pulled out and beams are visible. It is a small but open room with a high ceiling and a large window.
There is also a 0.5 tatami-mat board room that can be used like a closet, which is convenient.

Room201 High ceiling with ceiling fan

Room202 7 tatami mats: Western style room

Rent : 43,000 yen
Interior : Plaster walls, solid Japanese cedar flooring
Facilities : Air conditioner, bed + wardrobe. Hanger rack, desk, veranda.

Spacious room. A wooden bed is provided and a wardrobe is placed under it for ease of use.
The room has a nice view of the ocean from the veranda.

Room202 Table and Hanger Rack

Room202 Bed

Room203 5 tatami mats: Japanese style room

Rent : 41,000 yen
Interior : Plaster wall Tatami mat
Facilities : Air conditioner, closet (medium size), shelves, half tatami mats solid wood flooring, veranda

Japanese-style room with a large window on the west side. It is a comfortable room with a lot of storage space and an occupied veranda.
From the veranda, you can see the Akashi Strait.

Room203 Japanese-style room with veranda

North wing 2 rooms

Room204 6 tatami mats + 1 tatami mat between boards: Japanese-style room

Rent : 51,000 yen
Interior : Plaster wall Tatami mats
Facilities : Air conditioner, closet (large size), Itama (wooden floor), veranda
Spacious Japanese-style room with large storage space.
Large windows on the east and north sides of the room provide good sunlight,
You can also see the ocean from the veranda.

Room204

The view from Room201, 202, 204 “Wide sky and blue sea”.

Room205 6 tatami mats : Western style room

Rent : 47,000 yen
Interior : Plaster wall, Solid Japanese cedar flooring
Facilities : Air conditioner, closet (extra large), veranda, ceiling fan

An open room with a vaulted ceiling.
A stylish room with pure white plaster walls, solid wood flooring, and a ceiling fan to match.
The room is spacious with a large storage room and a private veranda.

Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, Awaji Island and the sky

Great view from Maiko station

Living in connection “Local community”, “Vegetable garden”, “Exchange of things you can do”.

In the Maiko area, there is another building called “Arch” across the passage.
It is located right in front of the entrance.

The Arch is,
The living room, dining room, and kitchen are about 20 tatami in size,
The kitchen is equipped with a gas oven,
If you want to use the spacious living room or the gas oven in the kitchen, you can communicate with the share house mates in Arch,
The Grand Bleu has a capacity of 6 people, and the kitchen is equipped with a gas oven.

Grand Bleu has a capacity of 6 people, and Arch has a capacity of 3 people.
The total number of share house mates is 9, so if you want to get together with others, you can contact us on the day of your stay,
If you want to get together with everyone, it’s great to be able to gather right away, even if you call on the day of your stay.

We’ve become good friends with the 6 people living on the same staircase.
With our neighbors of the same age, we have dinner at home together, watch movies, do yoga, go out, etc. They are just like our share mates.

We exchange what we can do for each other, such as replacing screens, moving large pieces of furniture, carrying luggage, and so on. Sometimes, we even help the relatives find a matchmaking partner.

At our annual summer stairway BBQ, we have a wide range of ages from 20s to 70s along with the stairway people. I imagine it would be interesting if eventually passersby and people from the next stairway would join us.

A garden where you can cultivate a field

The arch has soil,
It’s a vegetable garden space where you can plant herbs and vegetables,
The Arch Grand Bleu share mates and those who want to plant a garden are free to use it.

The biwa saplings we planted together in the spring of 2016 are growing nicely.
Biwa leaves are versatile and used in natural remedies such as hot moxibustion and tea.
In 2017, many fruits were harvested and everyone enjoyed them.

Biwa no Ki

Shared space (with women-only bathroom and toilet)

Originally, two families lived in a row of houses with connected roofs, but they were completely separate,
The kitchen and living room were connected by removing a wall.

Sofa and projector are already installed.

The sofa & projector in the living room are shared by both men and women.

Grand Blue Living room

Grand Blue [Living room & Kitchen in the north wing]

All the buildings in WARAI are already equipped with a projector.
You can watch all the movies on amazon prime for free.

Entrance, kitchen, bath and toilet are located in both South and North Wing, one each, 2 places in total.

Kitchen in the north building

opening to south wing kitchen & north wing

kitchen in south wing

opening to south wing kitchen & north wing

Fully equipped with gas oven & three burner stove (kitchen in north wing)

One side of the kitchen has a gas oven! (Installed in spring 2021)

Bathrooms and toilets in the south wing are for women only, while those in the north wing are shared by both men and women.
Living room, kitchen, and refrigerator are shared by men and women.

Attractive neighborhood

Within a 5-10 minute walk east of Maiko Station are,

• Former Kinoshita Residence: A Japanese-style building with modern sukiya-style architecture. The garden is also beautiful.
• Former Yamaharu Muto Residence: Stylish Western-style building in Azure Maiko.
• Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Shijikaku): An important cultural property designated by the national government with an impressive hexagonal shape.
• Maiko Maritime Venue Promenade: You can climb on the girder of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge. The view is breathtaking.

There are many buildings to see, such as the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, and the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge.

On the way to each spot, it is nice to walk on the lawn of Maiko Park while enjoying the view of Akashi Kaikyo and Awaji Island. Five minutes further east is the sandy beach of Azure Maiko, where many people come throughout the year for a relaxing walk or run. Especially in summer, many families and couples gather here to enjoy swimming.

Five minutes west of Maiko Station, you will find “Taihei-no-Yu,” a hot spring spa with bedrock baths, and “Marinepia Kobe,” an outlet mall with over 100 specialty stores, making it convenient for both relaxation and shopping.
Walking west from Maiko Station in the direction of Akashi and Asagiri, you will find “Maiko Roku Shrine” and many cafes along Route 2 where you can enjoy the spectacular view.
Walking west or east around the Maiko Station area is enjoyable in either direction.

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I’m Inoji from Kobe Share House WARAI.

2 minutes walk to the beach where you can swim in the ocean and have a great view.
You can also walk to the JR and Sanyo stations.
I’d like to introduce you to our garden, which has the most beautiful living room in WARAI.

To learn more about the concept of Share House WARAI and the house as a whole, please take a look at this blog post.

What is Kobe Sharehouse WARAI?
https://sharehouse-warai.com/kobe-share-house-warai　

Please check the current vacancy status here
https://sharehouse-warai.com/vacant-room-info

Stylish common space & full of facilities

Open living room full of natural materials ◆Floor: Solid Japanese cedar flooring ◆Wall: Plaster wall

Gas oven & three burner stove + two refrigerators

The far-infrared ray effect warms the body to the core.
It is also convenient for boiling water, stewing food, and baking potatoes.

We have written an article about the charm of pellet stoves.
If you are interested, please take a look.

ペレットストーブのある暮らし（おすすめ・燃料・コスト・煙突工事について）

Gas oven & three burner stove + two refrigerators

There is a space in the fridge for your own stuff and a space called “share corner” (anyone can eat there).

Bathroom with bathtub (remodeled)

Bathroom (remodeled)

Article about the garden by a resident

『Miho』ガーデンでの暮らし。海近い！畑できる。オーブン最高！

Living in a share house near the ocean

The best thing about Garden is its proximity to the ocean.
The coast offers one of Japan’s most spectacular views of Awaji Island, the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, and the wide open sky and ocean,
It takes only 2 minutes on foot to the beach of Azure Maiko.
You can go to the beach in your bathing suit.

Rooms

Capacity of 4 people Room101, 201, 202, 203
Please click here for current room availability.
https://sharehouse-warai.com/vacant-room-info

Room101

6 tatami Western-style room
Rent : 47,000 yen
Interior : Plaster walls, Solid Japanese cedar flooring
Facilities : Air conditioner, closet (large), hanger rack, bed, TV, DVD deck

Solid wood, plaster and bamboo. Surrounded by natural materials, this is a pleasant room with two windows facing south & west.
There is also a porch, and it is nice to be able to go out to the garden directly from the room.

Garden Room101

Room201

6 tatami Japanese-style room
Rent : 51,000 yen
Interior : Tatami mat
Facilities : Air conditioner, closet (extra large), closet, private veranda

It has an oversized closet, a large private veranda, and windows on the east and south sides.
It is a spacious and easy-to-use room.

Photos will be added later.

Room202

4.5 tatami mats Japanese-style room
Rent : 41,000 yen
Interior : Plaster wall, Tatami mat
Facilities : Air conditioner, closet (extra large), closet

Plastered walls, tatami mats, south facing window. The room is cozy, sunny, and somewhat relaxing.
The room has an oversized closet and a closet, so you can have a spacious space in the room.

Room202 Japanese style room

Room203

4.5 tatami mats Japanese style room
Rent : 42,000 yen
Interior : Plaster wall Tatami mat
Facilities : Air conditioner, closet (large), storage case

It is a corner room, has a large storage space, and a pleasant room with windows on two sides of south & west.

Garden 203 【Photographed from the back of the room to the entrance side】

Women-only building

In WARAI,
3 mixed gender buildings (Organic, Grand Blue, and Ocean)
There are 2 women-only buildings (Garden & Arch)
The Garden is a women-only building.

The Garden is a women-only building.

Japanese-style community in Kasumigaoka area

In front of Sanyo Kasumigaoka station, there is a mixed gender building “Ocean” and a house for families “Rainbow” (vegan men live there), which is located 1 minute walking distance from the station.
And “Garden” is a 3 minute walk from the station, and there are 3 share houses in a row.
There are 8 households in total and about 10 share mates living close by.

Garden has a garden where you can cultivate a field, and Rainbow has a space behind the house where you can put many planters,
Ocean also has a large veranda on the second floor, so you can grow your favorite vegetables and herbs in each building while living in town,
You can exchange what you have grown with each other, or harvest from the garden to share at dinner parties.

The patissier of “Patisserie Sato”, a cake shop in front of Kasumigaoka Station, and “komadori”, a very relaxing cafe with delicious breads and side dishes full of vegetables,
The owners of the stores in front of the station, as well as the people across the street and next door, are all very kind,
They give us vegetables, rice cakes from rice-cake pounding, flower seedlings, etc., and we have a good relationship with local people.
It is a very peaceful and easy to live in area.

It is only a minute or two walk to the sandy beach “Azure Maiko” where you can swim with a spectacular view of Awaji Island and the Akashi Strait in the background.

Vegetable garden space for everyone / Garden for growing vegetables and herbs

Garden garden and vegetable garden space

We used to grow radishes, mini-tomatoes, lemon balm, etc.
If you want to grow vegetables or flowers, please do!
We would also like to plant fruit trees in the future…

Facilities near and around the station

JR Maiko station is a 12-minute walk. Sanyo Kasumigaoka station is a 4-minute walk.
Supermarket, bookstore, restaurants, 100-yen store, etc. for daily life,
Banks and other facilities are also located in front of the station.
From JR Maiko Station, it is 48 minutes to Osaka, 17 minutes to Kobe, 4 minutes to Akashi, and 31 minutes to Himeji.

Awaji Island, a place overflowing with nature, is also only 7 minutes away by expressway bus.
It is an easily accessible place to go anywhere to the west, east, or south.
It is also a 15-minute walk to JR Tarumi Station, where there is a busy downtown area.

It is also a 10-minute walk to the popular outlet mall “Marinepia Kobe” and “Tarumi Onsen Taihei-no-Yu”, a hot spring facility with bedrock baths.
It is a 10-minute walk with a view of the sea, so you will have no trouble with shopping and relaxation.

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