"Guus Veldhuis" <guus@dse.nl> wrote in message news:<2om6qcFca89dU1@uni-berlin.de>...

> I want to start living there from may next
> year in a little part of Osaka called Takatsuki. I had enough of Europe.
> 
What made you decide on that section of the region? Personally I loved
living in Shin Kobe. A short distance from my apartment there was
great shopping, restaurants, bars, hiking, bicycling, rock climbing
(gym, though there are some rocks relatively close), and swimming. The
pollution isn't too bad (relatively close to the coast). To me it was
an ideal place to live.

John W.