Now while we are renting an old house in the valley, which is in a pretty built up area and doesn't get much sun. It is good to dream about where we might buy a house if we eventually sell our house in Australia and buy one here. Our friend Yuko invited us over to her place for morning tea, it's in an area she calls “Nagaoka Tibet”. The apartment block (or mansions as they are called here) is free standing not crowded in by other buildings and gets plenty of sun. Then there's the view out the back windows of all the mansions which can be seen in this photo. Actually because this place is quite far from the train station and the main town centre, it's not too expensive to buy a place out here. While I probably wouldn't want to live in Japanese style mansion, I did notice as I was riding around the area there's lots of land out here. So, maybe one day I can have a little cottage which gets plenty of sun and a nice veggie patchin the yard. OK so it's good to dream once in a while. Definitely an inspirational place for the artistic pursuits.