It took me years to realize what I liked about Japan was the walkable city and good public transportation. I can fill up on anime slop at home, but I couldn't place it for years that what really made me love living there was the fact that as a teenager I could just go out to a place and just do stuff. I ended up being in really good shape and lost basically all the excess weight at the same time. There was also a lot more of a community in the local block I lived on, small neighborhood events that you'd do with the neighbors for a night just to kinda stay familiar not to mention the more culturally Japanese things like 回覧板 where you're just passing around a notice from household to household so you kinda have to interact with your neighbors a bit.