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Hello! Project OG Sato Masaki recommended her go-to standing-bar izakaya in Hiroshima on the radio. She dropped hints — that it’s known for norimaki (seaweed rolls), plus directions via taxi — but the information was so fragmentary that she never actually named the place, kicking off an identification hunt on 5ch’s Hello! Project thread. With several similar standing-bar joints and multiple APA Hotels clustered around Hiroshima Station, candidates like “Uotora” and “Soraya” were floated, but neither was a clean match given the distance from the station, and in the end listeners couldn’t pin it down. The thread also buzzed about the announcement of a new-single event at AEON Mall Hiroshima Fuchu on November 28.
What people said
Sato: November 28th, at AEON Mall Hiroshima Fuchu (*clap clap*)
lolololol
It's the area packed with grungy little bars that's a holdover from when a red-light district was set up in Osuga-cho after widows who lost their husbands in the atomic bombing turned to prostitution and it became a social problem
one by the Shinkansen exit, one across Ekimae Bridge, and one near Mazda Stadium
going just off "standing bar" and "norimaki," Uotora seems like the top pick, but it feels too far from the station
She's probably just being taken wherever her manager recommends
Giving directions in Hiroshima is tough, huh
@machika_a15
I want to go to Ma-chan's favorite izakaya in Hiroshima
@Taku_Hoshi
Hiroshima Station area, izakaya, norimaki
I want to go, so tell us the name at the release event
@yuusan19692
Lol, she's introducing a Hiroshima izakaya nobody could possibly track down
Though honestly the taste doesn't change much no matter which stall you pick
she's said things like "I want to just wander around" or "I want to stroll through the AEON Mall" about other regional trips too
Current members are stuck cooped up in hotels and venues, after all
that probably means crossing the overpass west of the station
Just "image-change" that traffic light! (a nod to the famous line from Morning Musume's "LOVE Machine")
Ma-chan probably can't even read that kanji
the first one that comes to mind is Soraya —
seafood norimaki, that is
so it's probably Soraya
You can ignore this guy's directions, lol
head west, and there's an intersection with Yume Mart on the right and an APA Hotel on the left, so turn left there and cross the overpass —
after that, no idea
Wasn't this the story about the time Ma-chan and Akane-chin rode in the same taxi, lol
brings back memories
For some reason there's a lot of sake from Shimane
Pretty solid lineup, not bad at all
Somehow I don't like that
Her family runs a Shinto shrine, so even if she can't hold her liquor, she gets made to drink the sacred sake (omiki) at ceremonies
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Background and Key Points of This Story
Sato Masaki is a former member of Morning Musume who has kept performing as a solo artist and in the group’s OG lineup since graduating. It’s not unusual for her to mention a restaurant she visited while on the radio during regional events, but this time she only gave characteristics — norimaki, standing bar — without ever naming the place outright, so fans with detailed knowledge of the area around Hiroshima Station lit up the thread floating candidates like “Uotora” and “Soraya.” Neither guess went beyond speculation, though, and the thread never reached a definitive identification. Part of the local difficulty is that the area around Hiroshima Station has multiple APA Hotels plus a glut of similar standing-bar joints, making it hard to pin down a shop from fragmentary clues. Keep in mind that the shop names floated in this article are strictly fan speculation, not information confirmed by Sato herself.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “[Sad News] Sato Masaki Introduces Her Go-To Standing Izakaya in Hiroshima, But the Directions Are So Convoluted Nobody Can Find It wwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
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