Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: larry_fitzsimmons@hotmail.com (Larry Fitzsimmons) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Housing Search in Japan Date: 20 Jul 2003 19:39:45 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <73fde4f0.0307191803.1aa69c61@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.185.177.177 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1058755185 20700 127.0.0.1 (21 Jul 2003 02:39:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Jul 2003 02:39:45 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:3138 Thanks for the tip! I will check it out. I really appreciate all the help everyone is offering, it really helps to be able to tap the brains of people who have already been there. I am also looking for information on ISPs-- I would love to hear from anyone who uses "gol" for broadband internet access. I am strongly considering using them, and could use any information on pricing or services that anyone can offer. Also, I am leaning toward getting a "J-phone" after receiving numerous recommendations. Does anyone have any experience with using them? I am looking to get good-to-adequate service, for prices comparable to the U.S. Finally, I have heard that opening a bank account in Japan is very difficult. Does anyone have any information regarding the documents or fees that are needed to open a bank account in Japan? Thanks, I'm sorry if you have heard these questions a million times before, but they are important to me and would make my passage to Japan a lot easier. worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) wrote in message news:<73fde4f0.0307191803.1aa69c61@posting.google.com>... > larry_fitzsimmons@hotmail.com (Larry Fitzsimmons) wrote in message news:... > > > > > Thanks a lot, I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer. > > If you go to www.newsonjapan.com, in addition to news the left side > menus have tons of links to just about everything you need. > Apartments, nightlife, restaurants, cars, etc. It's fairly > comprehensive; there might be better databases out there, but I like > this one. > > John W.