I’m fortunate - I live in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama ken, and bought the book last week at the local bookshop for ¥650. This is my first attempt at a Japanese text book - it looks rather difficult - the Japanese word order all back to front. My wife will help me out. Cheers to you all.
Jack in Tenma.
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Ooo, I’ve been there. Nice place.
You’ve visited the waterfall at least once, right? 
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My copy is in stock. But I’ll wait to pick it up in store in a couple of weeks when I’m not interstate. Gives me a chance to browse in store too.
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Many times - I have walked up Daimonzaka trail to the shrines and temples on Nachi Mountain. This area is possibly one of the most beautiful areas in Japan.
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What a coincidence! I just saw that yesterday on German TV in the second part (of 3) of the BBC documentation ‘Sacred Wonders’.
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Thank you Albino for that reference to the BBC.I will certainly look that up By the way - I spent 9 months, before you were born, in National Service - R.A.F., in Hamburg.
Cheers, Jack.
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Are you sure about this? Do you know when I was born?
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Well according to your past posts, you’re around 62 years of age.
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absolutely correct 
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Just for second I thought I was the one who had written this post 
Good to meet you. Nice to know I’m not the only Dane around here 
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I’ve just received my copy of the book ! I tried to read the introduction text, and it seems I need to polish my grammar knowledge haha 
Nice to meet you as well 
I am actually not Danish (yet), but I’ve been living in dk for a few years now.
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Gah! The Kinokunya in Australia emailed to say they removed the item from my order, so it’s not coming. I ordered a very dry sounding N4 kanji book as well in order to make the shipping cost more worthwhile, so now I am getting only kanji, and no fun book. Boo Urns.
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Oh, rude.
That happened to me the last time I placed an order through their website, but not when I ordered this book directly through the Japanese counter.
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Just a reminder we plan to start May 14th. I will put a new thread up each week for discussion of that week’s pages. I’ll post links each week in this thread, and also in the schedule in the opening post.
If you haven’t done already you can mark this thread as watching to get reminders each week when I post the link to the new thread.
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Hopefully I will get the book eventually and can jump in whenever. I think this will be a good one because I have visited some non-touristy prefectures when I lived in West Japan so I have a personal interest is what it will say about them, which will hopefully make me more engaged to actually read and learn! Will keep an eye on kinokuniya. It says in stock on their online store still so I ordered it again, we’ll see what happens. They really need some kind of waitlist function.
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Try contacting the Japanese book counter directly. jbd-sydney@kinokuniya.co.jp
Heh. Only just noticed they’ve got a .jp domain on that e-mail address.
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Thanks Micki,
Jack in Japan.
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I received today my parcel from CDJapan (Amazon Japan does NOT deliver to Switzerland 
). I ordered 5 books for 50$ (all included).
The book looks lovely! Looking forward to reading it!
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My first book club book - and first Japanese book ever！
Great choice, I’m able to read a lot more on my own than I would have imagined. I’ve done mostly Duolingo and a couple chapters of Genki I so I wasn’t expecting much from myself.
I also love that I had to pick up a physical copy of it. It seems to make me focus better 
Looking forward to reading with everyone!
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Just got my copy in the mail! I ordered from Kinokunya and it took 10 days to arrive (I live in the US). So excited to start!
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