Tagged with " foreigner" Dec 14, 2012 - People, Places, Society
 No Comments  Finding a place to live in Tokyo   I am sticking
with some real life topics this week.  Finding a place to call
home in Tokyo when you are a foreigner can be a real challenge
sometimes.  If you have been in Japan you will know how much the
Japanese love taking care of visitors and making them feel at
home in just about any situation. Hot towels when you enter a
restaurant and a free umbrella if it happens to be raining when
you leave. Toilets that gently wash your backside and ATMs that
speak to in a perky female voice.  The key word in that phrase
was “visitor”  In other words you are expected to leave.  If you
choose to stay then the paint will start cracking and as the
mirage fades and you are standing outside the convenience store
where someone stole the umbrella that you brought cursing the
same people you just exclaimed your love for.  Finding housing
in Japan can be very similar to this.  All the hotels are open
to you and