Hi, I’m Higashi from the techo team.

The theme for the Hobonichi Techo 2025 is “Potential.” For this Techo News series, team members will be writing about their take on the “potential” of the Hobonichi Techo.

Although I said that, when I tried putting my idea into words, I found it hard to describe it. So I decided to first write down the theme in my techo.



As I wrote the phrase
“Watch it shine through, bit by bit,
in the pages of your Life Book.”
it hit me.

Something shining through in my Life Book (=Hobonichi Techo). Right, let’s find my “potential” as I carefully go over my Hobonichi Techo.

The first thing that stood out was the “Remember This” page in April.


Don’t forget how you started out.

It had been a year since I joined the techo team, and as I got used to things, I remember feeling that I needed to roll up my sleeves and remember how I started out.



This is when I drew a sashimi capsule toy I had received that made me happy. Then, here’s a page from June that says “TRY!” in large letters.



I’ve written down my resolution of wanting to start something new and TRY. I like writing down things in large letters in the Remember This page because it turns on a switch inside me to actually do it.



Here I’ve written “I layed on my back in the veranda because it was a new moon.” This day was Hobonichi’s anniversary, and because I had spent such a fun day I’d already written quite a lot for my diary entry, but I still felt like I should write this down as well.

As I read back on my techo like this, it made me realize how writing down nothing-special, mundane things like this could turn into something interesting.

The more you write, the more fun it will be to read back on. To think that this is all possible by myself makes it exciting.

The Hobonichi Techo 2025 Preview Stadium is updated daily, so I hope you check out that page too!

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