I am interested in the following Sakura House locations. Only looking for apartments priced 82,000 and below. http://www.sakura-house.com/english/premise/monzen_ab.php – located near a good friend’s place http://www.sakura-house.com/english/premise/asakadai.php – lovely large apartments with lofts http://www.sakura-house.com/english/premise/hibarigaoka_b.php – nice apartments with lofts http://www.sakura-house.com/english/premise/tsuruse.php – huge with lofts and gardens
Archive for August, 2011
Weekly Quicklinks for August 27, 2011
Onna becomes an expat – Japan Cat Network Experience of taking an adopted cat from Japan to the USA.
Phone
Tonight’s research: Phone options! You can’t get a contract unless you’re living there two years or more, which I’m not. Prepaid options for data service are slim, and I consider data service essential. So I’m looking at two things: 1. http://www.hotspot.ne.jp/en/index.html provides access to a bajillion wifi hotspots around Japan, but not just anywhere. You [...]
Hyperdia
I used this site so much in Japan, and they didn’t even have an English version at the time! Now there’s not only an English website, but an Android app! I have it on my phone already, just for fun. Hyperdia | Timetable and Route Search in Japan.
Weekly Quicklinks for August 20, 2011
Go Vegan with Ellen I had no idea Ellen DeGeneres is vegan!
Split Cities
While looking up some information on a town in Antwerp province, I was surprised to notice a little bit of Belgium situated actually inside the Netherlands. It turns out it’s even more complicated than that: Baarle-Hertog is a city that is Belgian in some places and Dutch in others. There are some excellent maps here [...]
Weekly Quicklinks for August 13, 2011
Where Does the South Begin? Looks at rivers, Route 40, religion, etc.