"Are you are moving out on this date?" the ward officer pointed at my form and asked.
"Yes," I answered.
"Is it because of work?" the officer continued.
"Hmm... no... it is not because of work," I answered carefully. This was the third time that I went through the moving-out process in Japan, but it was the first time I was asked for a reason.
"You have just moved from Sapporo this month. Are you moving out?" the officer asked again.
"Yes... because the weather is cold," I tried to explain but my brain was not working. Her question was not the scenario I had expected. An unhandled exception occurred, and my brain failed to compose a sentence in Japanese correctly.
"So, you are not coming back to Sendai?" the officer just wanted to confirm that I was permanently moving out.
"Yes," I confirmed. The cold weather was a very good reason to me.
The photo is my impression of Sendai, beef tongue, the most famous dish. It's sold all over Sendai. Restaurants, bars, souvenir shops. I even saw a factory of beef tongue meal boxes in the middle of paddy fields.
