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!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news-feed1.de1.concert.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!53.200.244.43.ap.yournet.ne.JP!not-for-mail From: Michael Cash Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Tell me, Mike Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:57:49 +0900 Lines: 64 Message-ID: References: <3FCB56B7.F16C0ED4@yahoo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: 53.200.244.43.ap.yournet.ne.jp (43.244.200.53) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1070377071 69329490 43.244.200.53 ([51151]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:8683 On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:56:55 +0900, Eric Takabayashi belched the alphabet and kept on going with: >I'd like to get my own Dash Mura going and put up some >small buildings, domes, tipis, yurts or log cabins, to >expand or work from home. I've been looking for a place >for years, and somewhere large or affordable enough is >usually hidden away in the hills say an hour from town >without a highway or train line, but it doesn't get >much more conveniently located on paper than this: > >http://tinyurl.com/x7c3 > >Check it out on the map: > >http://tinyurl.com/x7bu > >Zoom in, zoom out. Enlarge the map. Check it out to >scale. Check the amenities in the pull down menu. >Practically walking distance for me. No nursery schools >or kindergartens in that town, though. Not even a >junior high. You need to do a yingyong google. I found a 保育園 near South Snakewell Station: http://tomiokaizumi.hoikuen.to/index2.html There are four 幼稚園 listed here: http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~caw79710/list/list1_10/1003.html And I'm pretty sure those are just the private ones. There must be some run by the city as well. > >Is that area decent? How's Tomioka City? I don't >believe I've seen a city that small on a map. I've only been over there once or twice. I don't recall having any particular impression of the place. > >http://www.city.tomioka.gunma.jp/ > >Their homepage makes it out to be a nice, quiet place, >close to nature. The contour lines on the map would tend to verify that. You would be at the absolute bleeding edge of the Kanto Plain. > >Of course that house needs work, probably more than the >entire property costs. Depends on what you're willing to tolerate. > >But do you think this is worth looking into? If I had the money and the sort of career that would allow me to make a living while isolated on the edge of nowhere, I'd probably drive over there and take a look at it myself. Like you said, it's convenient to the ultra-boonies of Nagano and the backwater metropolis of Maebashi.