[Nyororin]

Reading through the posts, I have to say this sounds more like you had skewed expectations of what moving anywhere would be like... Not just Japan. And, well, would most likely experience the same thing when moving anywhere unfamiliar.
It`s good that you`ve realized that your experience has a lot more to do with your own feelings and expectations than Japan being "bad". Expectations of what life may be in a location you aren`t directly familiar with are generally wrong... And even when they are, a whole life isn`t going to be set up and waiting for you - you have to make it yourself.

I would personally advise you to give it a bit more time before deciding to just throw in the towel and call the whole thing a mistake. You say you discovered things - there is likely much much more out there to be discovered. Maybe not as much as you were looking forward to - cue the "Japan is not an amusement park" - but there is more than enough to do pretty much anywhere if you look. In the long run, you may have a better experience for not being with friends in the city... Although it looks like that is where you`re going to be heading soon.

I agree with your advice to those who want to just leap into Japan with closed eyes, but I don`t agree that you should be leaving so quickly. No, make that "strongly against" you leaving so quickly. At least spend a bit more time going around - if you leave now all you will have is a bad taste left in your mouth and the feeling of having wasted huge amounts of time and money. Japan is a big country - travel a bit more and find a place that you do feel a bit more comfortable. Not everywhere is the sticks of Fukuoka.

But the biggest question I can`t help but ask... What DID you expect? What did you intend to do once in Japan?

(I`m not trying to be hostile in any way, just understand a bit more.)