Q - What's the difference between <your hometown> and a container of yogurt?

A - The yogurt's got culture.

Badum pum!

But no, seriously, folks. Do you ever feel like you get culturally deprived sometimes? The past while I've been starving for something to enrich my mind... A concert, an opera, a theatre play, a ballet, ANYTHING!

Well, I finally managed to do something about it. For my birthday coming up, we're going to go to a jazz concert featuring one of Japan's top sax players. Then, today I bought my wife's Christmas present: tickets to the ballet at the New National Theatre in Tokyo.

There IS culture to be found here, but honestly -- 2 hours out of Tokyo is still a bit too far to do anything on a regular or semi-regular basis. Sometimes I wish I could just move to NYC or a large city in Europe... <sigh>

So... What (if anything) do YOU like to do?