Ayu @ Birthday party in Tokyo
 

http://ayu.no/images/news/3138.jpg

Ayumi was recently out in Roppongi, Tokyo to celebrate a good friend, along with Peach Jonh President Mika Noguchi. The sunflowers was a gift from Ayu, and is made by Mariko Hamasaki, Ayu's mom and owner of the store "HanaBI". ^ㅂ^

the card says 'Natsuki'. Ayu is still very good friends with her, I see ^^

This isn't the friend Ayu calls Aneki right?

Nice! Thanks for the pics

Awwww ayu's so cute. She looks hot in the pics :laugh

The sunflowers are pretty.

Thank you. ^^

Wasn't aneki one of ayu's best friends and she died a year a half ago? The one that ayu wrote untitled ~for her~ for.

(Unless if I'm wrong and natsuki is aneki). ^^

The flowers sure looks expensive o.o

Cool, thanks for posting the pics. :)

That's why I'm confused. I remember early speculations about Untitled ~for her~ was for Natsuki, but Ayu's TA messages revealed it was someone she called Aneki, which made me further confused thinking Natsuki is Aneki. >__>

very cool Ayu is very beautiful ! I think so flowers are expensive x)

i think Aneki means older sister.. like Aniki = older brother

this natsuki girl looked drunk :lech

The girl who died is Ayumi Ogata, a girl she met on a drama set, that's her that Ayu called Aneki and Ayu wrote "untitled for her" for her

omg im so stupid is the sunflower real or artificial?
if its real I would die to keep it alive

Ahh~ seems like alot of fun. Ayu is looking very pretty again.

Aneki is Ayumi Ogata then, I see.

Well, now we know that there's no way Natsuki could be Aneki.

frankly I don't like her hair colour but her outfit's great

nice sunflowers too :yes

uhm so good, anyone know where is the location of Mariko's store? I'll go to Tokyo soon, I wanna buy sunflowers too :P

So now it's quite sure that "untitled ~for her~" is for Ogata Ayumi.

Natsuki looks cute and so young. It's amazing that they're friends since so long.

I find it funny AYU's name is bigger than Natsuki's on the card. Maybe that's the custom in Japan (so the receiver can see who it's wrong?), but it reminded me of when fry died and bender gave him flowers ~FROM BENDER~.

wow, i wish i enjoyed roppongi haha, i'd go there more often. but i do not :P

she looks good :D And ayu's mom's shop is so expensive, haha. And i hear the staff there rarely ever see ayu's mom. But my friend and I want to go there :D The chocolates that they make are expensive too -__- but, they're cheaper than flowers, so i'm gunna get some :D

Thanks for the pictures !!

Well in Shibuya there is florist called "hanaBI" I think it's one of Ayu's mother
here is the adress --> 東京都渋谷区広尾5丁目17-11 (Tokyo-to Shibuya-ku Hiroo 5chou 17-11)

i think ayu wear less make up in her ordinary days...she looks natural and young...always stylist and hot...

very nice pict.
thanks for sharing

She looks nice in the pics. Its great that someone as busy as her made it to her friends birthday.

I bet her moms shop is pretty famous, right?

I dont think the flowers look expensive, they look the same the artificial flowers from quite cheap shops here are, or they are very fake looking real flowers xD

Thank you Maxker!

Ayu looks good! Da-yum!

Hmm... okay we know who untitled ~for her~ is really for... lol I thought her friend came back from the dead or something while reading through the comments... O_o

I remember the story of the other Ayumi too..

anyway, it seems Ayu's loving hats this spring ^_^

Ayu looks like she was having fun. I wish she'd buy me some sunflowers...>_<

now i got the Aneki thing~

Wasn't hanaBi a hairstyling place?

nice potato sack ayu!
(jk) she looks so cute!

SunshineSlayer has mentioned before that hanaBi (or however you spell this lol) is this gift shop... so they sell chocolates and fake (I think) flowers... all really expensive though.

Alright, someone go to hanaBi and snap some pics of Ayu's mom so we can clear up if that young looking girl from PCDL is really her! :lech

^ Apparently they never see Ayu's Mom, though...

But I'll definitely go by there next month and take pictures of the place, though! Who knows, maybe that'll be the lucky day I see Ayu's Mom! Hahaha.

But those flowers look real... and so big and nice, too!!

I think I recognize that girl on the right of Ayu in the first picture... I think she popped up A LOT in Dej Deji (up until about 2003, anyway).

is that artificial flower or fresh sunflower?
ayu's outfits is like ZARA brand...^^

I've never heard about this.. what happened?


haha I also think that she's wearing ZARA when she was in HK, on the Fated's making off, the one she's hugging an old lady.. but well ya~ sumtimes ZARA loves to copy those big labels.. but who know :D

Haha, I would mention here how "if this isn't proof that Natsuki's still alive, then I dunno what is" but that's been discussed already, lol :)

Thanks for the pictures :)

aww~ it's nice to see that they are still friends. not to mention that she's still alive! last i heard, i thought that it was natsuki who had passed last year.

ayu wore a nice outfit.

I love the candles on that cake hahaha!

Those sunflowers are wild lol.

love her style, thanks for the pics XD

flowers? seems like an unexpected birthday gift....

Thx, That cleared things up!

And thx for the pics Maxker! Fun to see! ^^

Aw! the sunflowers are beautiful! I love ayu's outfit!!

ayu looks great! thanks for the pics :love

Wow she really looks so...normal. Really casual and natural.

ayu looks very nice and natural ... xD
<3<3

thanks for the pics! ayu is always in trend. :)

Thanks for posting

thanks for the photos!
that cake looks so scrumptious :heart

Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much! There is a map in the official website (http://www.hanabi-a.jp):

http://www.hanabi-a.jp/shop_info/img/map.gif

But I can't find the store door (http://www.hanabi-a.jp/shop_info/img/hiroo_01.jpg) using the street view at Google Maps. Maybe the pics for the street view are very old. Or, I'm not in the right place:

http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q&sourc...2&z=16&iwloc=A

Can anyone show me the exact place?

P.D: I find the store blog too (I think is the Mariko's blog. There are a lot of pics of CREA and MELON, and her store of course: http://ameblo.jp/hanabi-crea)

I love how Ayu's mom has a life outside of her daughter. A lot of celebrity parents in the Western world latch onto their kids and ride the gravy train of their child's success... It's sad really.

@_@ wish i was ayu's friend XD she looks really good there!

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Ok, I confirmed the place!

This is a pic from the balcony/window of "hanaBi" store:

http://stat001.ameba.jp/user_images/...0151162495.jpg

You can see the awnings of the shops on the other side of the street (green and yellow). They are the same awnings that appears in the "street view" of Google Maps (the "street view" pictures were taken before the shop was built, there isn't any name sign yet):

http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q&sourc...2&z=16&iwloc=A

So, the "hanaBi" store isn't at street level, but on the 1st floor of this building

(Even so... there is another "hanaBi" store near, at street level I think, but not appears either... investigating... :cool)

nice pics, thx for posting!:luv2

Ayu looks very drunk. xD

:laugh

Cute pics, and I think it's interesting that the gift Ayu gave was sunflowers.

Ayu looks cute! Her friend looks cute, too~ Thanks for sharing!

sunflower could be meaning as ''i wish for ur happiness n peacefullness'' or ''u r brighten my live''
that's i know so far..

THX for the pictures. Ayu looks so happy..*^.^* And she also looks so beautiful.

I wish she came to my bday
:D

These are such nice pictures! It's so nice to see Ayu having fun like this!

Cool, thanks for the pics! ^_^ That looked like a pretty low-key, but fun party :D

Hey!!! Ayu has a lot of money!!!! She could have given her something better...:P:P:P

^it's not about the cash, it's the tought and the meaning of the gift that counts.

i like how she looks, she seems like she had a blast at the party^^
tnx for posting theese :D

Those flowers are sooo expensive at "hanaBi"... no wonder Ayu only got her sunflowers!!! =P Haha, I kid. But, seriously, they're really expensive... when I go there, I am only buying some chocolate, and MAYBE a candle. Those are some of the cheapest things there lol

she looks so young in those pics....
she was such a nice good friend :)

Great pictures!!
Those sunflowers are beautiful!!

nice pics! it shows ayu's face from a rare angle!

WHOA!! Thanks for sharing such rare pictures! (: The sunflowers looked gorgeous!

Sweet pics Thanks for sharing :)

thanks for sharing

what a cool picture!!

thanks for sharing
ayu got nice outfit again
and maybe the black vast is more $$$ than we think~

That's rather shallow of you, haha.

Ayu is so kind for giving her friend the flowers. If I got one from her, I'll never throw away the flower even though the flower get ugly and stink.

maybe her friend loves sunflowers???? i feel like people are questioning the gift when there's no need for it. i mean they're friends....she doesn't need to impress her or anything. she gave her flowers, that's a nice gesture.

Ayus looks so cute! Actually as usual! :D

She must really like that straw-ly hat lol. XD
thanks :)

Ayu is so gorgeous!! And really Ayu's name is bigger than to Natsuki..hmMm,

Thanks!

wow.. great.. thanks for sharing!!

nice pics thanks for info^^

Ayu in the party of her friend, with hat and glasses? That's so... fashion? :S

I guess they all really like sunflowers ^^