This is my valley, as seen from my house. This is what most of Yamaguchi in the Western part of Japan looks like: low rolling hills and mountains. My house is pictured here below on the left. On a clear day you can even see out to the sea.
	One of the distinct advantages of living in the house the furthest up the road is that you build strong legs from walking and riding a bicycle to school every day. What with being surrounded by rice fields, we go to sleep every night while enjoying the rhythmic chorale of thousands of little amphibians. My section of Yamaguchi (Choshu) is also well know for providing the revolutionaries who overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate in the Meiji insurrection in the 1850's.

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