A newcomer to Kaguraya in the fourth season.

The first season of this popular drama aired from November 2010, and was followed by season two in October 2011, and season three in January 2014. In this fourth season of Behind the Curtain, Naoko has overcome a variety of handicaps to become the innkeeper of Kaguraya and strong enough to voice her opinions to Shino. One of these opinions is that you don’t have to be “the innkeeper if they have the drive and a true desire to be hospitable to guests. Shino opposes this point of view and begins a series of lectures on the “Kanazawa innkeeper”. The positive and cheerful yet dull-witted and sloppy Machiko comes to apply for the apprentice position. Shino takes one look at the scrawled letters on her C.V. and dismisses her as “hopeless”, but Naoko worries about Machiko and hires her as a trainee. However, Machiko’s presence causes a new commotion at Kaguraya…