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NorthofAmerica · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 187 Location: Recovering Expat

Okay, so I troll this place often enough but aside from passing references to Tokyo (Japan's official centre of the world) I don't see many people actually come out and say where they live. In the spirit of hopefully helping people meet like minded and friendly foreigners in their area why don't we all post whereabouts we are living. And please no one say "Japan" as I find that particularly useless in people's profile.

I live in Hikone, Shiga. About 45 minutes north-east of Kyoto and an hour and a half from either Osaka or Nagoya. Nice little city on the edge of Lake Biwa. We gots ourselves a castle and a starbucks and a nice lil selection of bars and shops Wink

bshabu · Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 200 Location: Kumagaya

Hey I used to live there as University exchange student a few years back. Nice place...but we didn't have Viva city when I lived there though Mad

But to answer your "?", I live in Kumagaya.

cornishmuppet · Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 642 Location: Nagano, Japan

Nagano City, Nagano prefecture. Near Zenkoji temple, for those who know the city.

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

I was in Shiga a couple years ago at a CALL conference, Kusatsu I believe.

I live in Takamatsu, Kagawa, on Shikoku. It's just south of Okayama over the bridge. Smallish city, but it has 4 Starbucks.

Sweetsee · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2302 Location: ) is everything

We live in Niiza; southern Saitama, on the border with Tokyo. Anyone interested in hitting some balls, kicking asphalt or sharing job leads?

TK4Lakers · Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Posts: 159

Kamisu-shi, Ibaraki-ken.

kdynamic · Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 562 Location: Japan

Hokuriku

Eva Pilot · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject:

Izumo, Shimane.

Very quiet little city, but I really enjoy it here now.

osakajojo · Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 229

Amagasaki, though I work a hop, skip, and a jump away in Nishinomiya, where I had lived two years befor moving to the Tsukaguchi area Laughing

rai · Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 119 Location: Osaka

I live in the crusty, dirty Naniwa ward of Osaka. It has lots of personality (and homeless people).

Temujin · Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 90 Location: Osaka

Joto ward, Osaka. Next to the castle. It's very boring, but only 15 minutes away from Umeda and not much further to Namba and Shinsaibashi. I don't know or care how many Starbucks Osaka has.

callmesim · Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 279 Location: London, UK

I too am a resident of the beautiful Naniwa ward. Daikokucho to be more precise. Get good milage out of it, if only to have students tell me how dangerous the area is. Oh, it makes me laugh.

moot point · Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 441

Tokyo...but far away from Tokyo.

fat_chris · Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 3198 Location: Beijing

Northern Manhattan, New York City

But I occasionally kick it in the West and East Villages of Lower Manhattan. The East Village, in particular, is a neighborhood where a lot of Japanese hang out. Went to a Japanese toy store there a few weeks ago. Lots of Japanese restaurants, but those are all over the City...

markrendl · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 11 Location: Osaka

In the middle of Osaka, a stone's throw from Nippombashi and the Bunraku Theater.