Kounosuke Minoda

Kounosuke Minoda is the cook who lives and works at the Hananoyu Inn.

Appearance
Kounosuke is an aging man with short hair starting to turn gray.

Personality
Kounosuke is very nice and friendly man. He loves his job and the inn. He was really happy when Oriko decided to become the next innkeeper.

Synopsis
After Oriko Seki had arrived to live in the inn, he overheard some commotion and went to see what was going and Etsuko Tajima explained him that Oriko wanted to be the next innkeeper. Hearing that he was overjoyed and crying from happiness. Oriko tried saying she still wasn't very confident about it, but Etsuko and Kounosuke told her they will be helping her out.