

Yumi and Miwako are not close and never really have been, but after Nancy uses the nonogram numbers and discovers Kasumi's final letter stating her wishes that the girls stop fighting and work together instead and that neither girl has to run the ryokan, their previous animosity vanishes and allows the girls to form a better relationship. Even though she can be very prickly when it comes to the Ryokan Hiei, she appears to want Nancy to help her family. Hidden within those colorful pictures is a code that opens a little froggy safe in her apartment, revealing her half of Kasumi's nonogram numbers. Despite Nancy's determination to know what happened to Kasumi, or perhaps because of that determination, Yumi sends her purikura photos of her, Bess, George, and Rentaro.

Even though Yumi seems to resent the place and wants nothing to do with it, she is still protective of its secrets and will refuse to talk to Nancy if she gets too pushy.

Nancy can always make bento boxes with Yumi and can even trade phone charms with her, but she can't get Yumi to talk about her mother or the hauntings at the ryokan. Yumi warms up to Nancy very quickly and within their first conversation she gives Nancy her phone number and a key to her apartment with the orders to retrieve her extra bento boxes. Taking trains to Matsue, Nancy sees her working a bento booth and as soon as Yumi discovers she's friends with Bess and George, she gets the super-sleuth to work alongside her. Knowing that she grew up at the Ryokan Hiei, where Nancy is staying, they encourage Nancy to meet her. However, she felt so trapped with the idea that she left to run a bento stand in the city instead.īess and George meet Yumi in Kyoto in 2010 and become good friends with her. She makes her own clothes, and loves the color pink.Īs the eldest daughter of the Shimizu family, Yumi was expected to inherit the Ryokan Hiei. She is apparently very trusting, as she gives you a key to her apartment that she adores. Miwako considers her a brat, and Yumi thinks Miwako needs to have more fun. Players can meet and interact with Yumi at her bento stand by the Technology Expo in Kyoto. She has a very strained relationship with her family and Rentaro, due, in part, to her unconventional views and over-bearing personality. As the oldest daughter, she is, by tradition, to inherit her family's ryokan, though she chooses to live a life in the city instead. Yumi is Kasumi's older daughter who runs a bento stand called Happy Bento in the inner city of Kyoto.
