![]() ![]() One of the characteristics of life in the big city is how convenient it is. ![]() ![]() Life in the Big City The Good (1) – Convenient When I say “countryside, I’m excluding the abovementioned areas as well as other urban areas, such as Fukuoka, Sapporo, Sendai, etc. ![]() I spent my first year in Japan in a city called Kanazawa (more below), which by Japanese standards, is the countryside, but this is a city of almost half a million people, which by American standards (from whence I come), this is a good-sized city, and a city like Tokyo, with a population (depending on how you define it), is the most populated city in the world, so by “big city” I’m referring to is Tokyo and its immediate environs (Tokyo-Kawasakai-Yokohama-southern Saitama, western Chiba) and the greater Osaka-Kyoto area (Osaka-Kyoto-Nara) (and perhaps Nagoya, though I’ve never been there myself, but I’m just looking at population numbers). A lot of what I have to say holds true for other countries, too, as life in the big city versus life in the country is the same in many other countries, but as a newcomer to Japan, it may be helpful to understand some of the differences unique to Japan concerning this urban-rural divide.įirst of all, the definition of “big city” in Japan may be different from other countries’ definitions. In the current article, I want to compare and contrast the good and the bad of life in the big city in Japan versus life in the boonies. ![]()
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