Makoto Tateuri

Makoto Tateuri, also know as Uribo (ウリ坊, Uribō) is a ghost of a young boy who lives in the Hananoyu Inn.

Appearance
Makoto is a young boy with short messy brown hair, brown eyes and big frontal teeth that are always showing. He is usually shown wearing a white shirt with green shorts.

Personality
Makoto is a nice kid, but loves messing around with people who can't see him. Being a ghost for quite some time, he became maturer for his age. He deeply cares for Mineko and the inn.

Synopsis
When Oriko Seki came in the Hananoyu Inn and started crying in her room, Makoto was looking at her and complaining about her crying. But she heard him wondering who was there. As he realized she was able to see him, he got really happy and introduced himself as a full-time ghost, but Oriko got scared and didn't want to believe, so she ran. He kept chasing her and appearing around her, insisting he was really a ghost and in the end, Oriko had to accept it.

Makoto told her that Mineko had secrets she couldn't tell Oriko and that interested Oriko. He then explained that Mineko wanted to make Oriko the new innkeeper, but Oriko wasn't really interested and Makoto told her she didn't have empathy and seeing her annoyed face, he told her she wasn't cute at all. Oriko tried hitting him, but her arm went through him and she fell in the pond.

After getting new clothes from Mineko and Etsuko, they continued the discussion about Oriko becoming the new innkeeper and Mineko ended up overhearing part of it and got happy that Oriko wanted to take over.