Comments by "Jordan, inside-outsider in Japan" (@Jordan-inJapan) on "Leave Tokyo u0026 Save the Country | Japanese Regional Revitalization Experiment ★ ONLY in JAPAN" video.

There is something to be said for ‘moderately rural’. There are a lot of beautiful, rural areas in Japan that are not far from small or medium sized cities. I’ve been living is such a place for nearly 20 years now, and it’s fantastic. Not only the scenery and the cheap fresh vegetables, but also the more laid-back lifestyle. Especially if you’re raising kids…it’s just so much easier in a less urban area. ‘Inaka’ is where it’s at!
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“We should buy one of these abandoned buildings and start a brewery.” I don’t know how many times I’ve said that traveling through small towns in my area. Doing just that has been something of a dream for me over the last 10 years or so. Good for Mr. Mukai for making it happen. I’ll have to head down there and check that place out one of these days. 🍻
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@jalanampang6338 well, I’d say ‘moderately rural’ could describe parts of it. Kind of like where I live. It’s really just a rural pocket between a bunch of cities, but all the locals are convinced we live in ‘inaka’.
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@onlyinjapan John, off topic but I’ve been meaning to ask you for ages, you weren’t living in Numazu in 2000-2001 were you?
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@5chevin5 Sounds good to me! 👍
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My thoughts exactly. 🍻
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Agreed! I actually started off as a ‘city kid’, but now I’m happily living in a mostly-rural area and love it. Especially with kids, I can’t imagine living in a big city here… way too stressful!
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Nice, where will you be living?
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@shonix123 good choices. Izu-Hakone is a really nice area. (Izu is where the city of Atami is). I lived in Numazu city (west side of the Izu peninsula) when I first came to Japan, and I really fell in love with the whole region.
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Colorado is on my list of travel destinations for just that reason. Japan has definitely been developing, brewery-wise, but it’s slow going. Outside of the major urban areas, there just aren’t many people who have much awareness or interest in craft beer. But things here are definitely moving in a good direction.
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