Tarou Toudou

Tarou Toudou is a man who writes magazine articles about inns and rates them.

Appearance
Tarou is a middle-aged man with a short brown hair and is little overweight.

Personality
Tarou is friendly and loves doing his job rating inns. He finds it quite fun going around, traveling and resting at various places so he can rate them.

Synopsis
Tarou Toudou came to Shuukou Lodge to rate it, but wanted something more peculiar so Matsuki Akino took him to Hananoyu Inn. Mineko Seki welcomed him and was happy he was there and saw surprised he had heard of them, but Tarou told her he even heard of the young innkeeper that was there. He then requested Oriko Seki to show him around and she did. As she showed him the place, he saw taking pictures and Oriko asked him if he had any questions. He asked about the old friendship Mineko and the owner of Shuukou Lodge had, but Oriko didn't knew much and only repeated things that Makoto Tateuri told her. He then asked her about why she wanted to be innkeeper and she explained it was due to a friend kept telling her to do it, referring to Makoto.

Oriko then took him around the main street and later before leaving, he spoke with Mineko, telling her he will write a great article thanks to Oriko.