Best small places in Japan?
 

Rated 1 to whatever, 1 being the highest, what are the best small places to live in Japan if you don't want the overcrowded city life? A friend of mine said Yonago City.

I hear Yamagata is quite nice, especially in the winter. I'm not sure what you mean by "small" but with a population of about 200,000 it's definitely not as crowded as places like Tokyo or Osaka.

Yamagata, Yamagata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And a few of my Japanese buddies say that when the girls speak in Yamagata dialect it sounds kinda sexy. :p

http://rocketnews24.com/2011/11/10/151272/

This list made me think of this thread.