Mineko Seki

Mineko Seki is the grandmother of Oriko Seki who runs the family ryokan, Hananoyu Inn.

Appearance
Mineko is an elderly woman with gray hair and a purple stripe of hair.

Personality
Mineko is nice and mindful of others, when Oriko came to live with her, she wanted to ask her to become the new innkeeper, but didn't knew how to approach the situation given that Oriko recently lost her parents.

Synopsis
When Oriko Seki parents died in an accident, Oriko came to the Hananoyu Inn. Upon seeing her coming Mineko and Etsuko who where sending a customer off, got really happy that she was coming to live with them. Mineko then showed the new room Oriko will be staying and told her that it used to be Oriko's mothers room.

Later when Oriko fell in the pond, Mineko and Etsuko gave her new dry clothes to wear and they were happy the clothes fit her. Mineko left for a moment and returned with some food and accidentally overheard Oriko saying she wants to run the inn and that made Mineko really happy. Mineko wanted her to take over the inn, but due to the death of her parents, she didn't know how to ask her. As Etsuko and Kounosuke Minoda came too, Mineko explained that Oriko wanted to take over the inn and they all got happy, willing to help her and train her to become a good innkeeper.