Anyone who has been living in Japan for any length of time knows of the friendly, decades-old, rivalry between Tokyo and Osaka – Tokyo built Tokyo Dome for baseball games and as a concert venue. A few years later Osaka Dome opened to great fanfare. Tokyo negotiated with the Disney Corporation and opened Tokyo Disneyland. Not wanting to be outdone, Osaka brought Universal Studios to Japan.

Tokyo. It can’t be all business, right? Kabukicho is filled over the top with entertainment. The name means kabuki town, but is also colloquially known as the “The Street that Never Sleeps".

It is important that you think very carefully, if you are coming to live and work in Japan for the first time, about where you would like to live. Are you a city dweller or a countryside rambler?

Which of these two magnificent metropolises is the better place to live? I've lived in both.