Setting up my new apartment

He moves into a two-month apartment-style guesthouse near Osaka for ¥150,000/£770; free Wi-Fi contrasts with shared facilities and severe noise. He spends nearly ¥10,000 on essentials, streams a walk, uses 15GB, and fears neighbors, doxxing, and shared bathrooms. He revisits Chihiro-era locations, mourns lost fame, youth, money and stability, but says he feels calmer alone than in 2016.

Nostalgia increasingly reframes Japan as ideal, while isolation, debt, privacy fears, and relationship instability remain unresolved.