Must be a fast pace life there in Tokyo.
Actually if you check some of my vids on youtube for example the walking up our river, our neighbourhood, and the river bike rides etc you will see that it is more rural feeling than many rural places. I hate cities myself but we have racoon dogs, herons, egrets, bats flying about in summer, fireflies etc all outside our door! Yuki wants to move to the country and after our Goto trip has discovered we can buy a liveable house there for one million yen! It's tempting but employment here is easy (self employed) and, as I say, it's a very very nice area.
What are you doing in down in Yamaguchi?