Hatchi is a five-year old shiba-ken that lives at Naoki-san's home and is not often seen at the Itokawa Guest House. Nonetheless once-in-a-while guests get to see Hatchi and immediate fall in love with him. He loves going for walks along the Okawa River over which the bridge above goes across.
Cick on the image above to get a larger view of the message the guest left in the Itokawa Guest Book