I've been in Tokyo two weeks now, and believe me that's not what I had in mind when first coming to Japan. Actually its the exact opposite. Even without a plan of any kind my heart always longs for the country, the small towns and tight knit communities they foster. I may be old fashioned, but the big cities just don't feel very welcoming to me. Some people love them, thriving off the palpable levels of frenetic energy oozing out of every square inch of concrete and steel, longing to go from one novel excitement to the next. Tokyo is surely that, only times 38 million, and I can feel my inevitable departure from this megalopolis coming, and soon