Reply #18: An apartment in Kyoto! Lucky you! [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

Is it in your lady friend's name? It would sort of have to be if you don't have a Japanese residence permit.

Anyway, I'll be back in Kansai in June (the planners of the conference have scheduled it during the rainy season for reasons that are not entirely clear), so maybe we will overlap at that time.

I'm just a couple of subway stops from Kyoto station, but I've discovered a disadvantage of the neighborhood--it's all offices, and there are too few places to get dinner in the evening! Last night, I was reduced to eating at a restaurant that specializes in ox tongue (the walls were plastered with posters about the merits of ox tongue), but fortunately, the menu also included lamb served Genghis Khan style.