It's pretty nice in a town, except that everyone assumes I speak perfect Japanese and rattles off at light speed. I can understand when they talk slowly, but that's about it.
My "leopalace" (a chain of cookie cutter apartments) is rather small, and there's a bathroom in the kitchen (lol, just like in Powerpuff Girls). The walls are super thin, too, and I can hear the neighbors snoring or flushing their toilets. I could even hear their cellphones when we had an earthquake alert last week.