Woot, Akiba plans!

Well, it looks like I've accidentally secured a place to stay late-ish in the summer for my Tokyo trip. A friend's son has offered to let me stay at his apartment in Yokohama for a few days. It's a $7, one-hour trip from Akihabara, so I won't be limited to just one trip to Geek Mecca, but will be able to go numerous times. Figure three or four days if that's okay, and I will probably spend two to three of them exploring Akihabara.

Summer Plans

Well, after consulting with my parents, I've decided to stay here over the summer. I was thinking that I might come back for three-ish weeks so I could visit family, and so I could get my dose of kitten, which I am dangerously low on.
This is largely from a fiscal standpoint, which makes a very strong case for staying right where I am.
$1400 - Round-trip plane ticket to Seattle, Washington, and back to Kyoto, plus transportation on both ends
$425 - The amount of rent that I'd have to pay despite not being here

And that's really about it. I just don't like to think in numbers that large, and I have no idea where I'd come up with that kind of cash. On the other hand, I'd like to do a little traveling over the summer, and it looks like I'll at least be going to Matsue for a while. I might be able to get some work there, even.

Even if I can't, there's still a lot of Kyoto that I haven't seen, and there's also Osaka that's not very far away. Tokyo is a $130 and three hours of bullet train away, so I might get to visit Akihabara, which is pretty high on my list of things to do.