[zanarkand]

Like many others here, I also plan to work remotely from Japan for a year! And I'm planning to do homestay as much as possible, so that I can experience the family life there.

Since I'll be doing remote work, I'd be on my laptop most of the time during the day. But if I just do my work at home Mon-Fri, I worry that the host family will find that too weird. So it might be better for me to go outside to do work every now and then. But I'm not sure where I might be able to stay for such a long time during the day. Cheap places would be good. Library? Cafe? Manga cafe? Any suggestions?

I also plan to get a SMS+data sim from iijmio and do the monthly plans. Anything I should watch out for? Is it with getting a voice sim card? I'm thinking VoIP would be sufficient most of the cases, and I also have Skype calling.

Where can I go to meet people (Japanese or non-Japanese)? I'm not really a bar person.

Thanks! Hope to see you all there!