Living in Japan- start

The first 6 years in our marriage, we lived in Taiwan.
Two years ago, we moved to Barcelona, Spain, for my husband to study an MBA degree in ESADE business school.
After graduating, we decided to move to Japan for my husband's job searching.
I am pregnant for around four monthes when we come to Japan.
Right now, we live in his mom's house in Ichikawa City, 30 minutes by metro away from Tokyo.
The house was empty for more than two years, because my mother-in-law has moved to Osaka to live close to her family.
In the first two weeks, we were quite busy buying everything, including all the electronic equipments, repairing the house, settling down and applying for my spouse visa.
Amazingly, I got my spouse visa in ONE WEEK.
We heard it takes at least one month, or even three months.
We called oversea to the Immigration Bureau several times, they said if I have some special reasons, like pregnancy and with young kid to take care of, they will fast up my procedure.
It means I can have heath insurance now.
My husband and I met in the US 12 years ago, I made some Japanese girls friends then too.
I tried to contact my roommate (then) to ask for information about doctor, antenatal checks, etc.
It is said she has a kid and also is pregnant now.
Fortunately, she is as kind as before, she told me many useful information.
B--u--t, I found a cruel fact that there are very few gynecologists in my city.
You need to reserve a hospital for bearing baby right when you found you are pregnant.
I found a bigger hospital and a personal clinic.
Both are in around half hour walking distance.
I will check them out very soon.

Whether in Tokyo is unbelievable unstable when we arrived (April, 2010), cold in the raining day and hot in the sunny day.
There is HUGE temperature difference between the first day and the next.
The first several days when we arrived, it was very cold.
Normally it should be very warm, even hot in this period of time.
My husband M doesn't prepare enough warm clothes for the cold weather. Poor M.
I am not so familiar to the "Normalities" of Japan, so I bring enough clothes for my little boy and I.
And the good news is we have several sunny days right now, and the temperature is quite hot like summer (higher than 25 degree C).

The house we are living in is a more than 30 years wood house and has emptied for more than two years .
The few remain equipments are mostly broken.
In the first week, we only have hot water in the kitchen, not in the bathroom.
So we need to carry hot water from kitchen to bathroom to wash our body.
Although we have hot water in the kitchen, but we can not use the stoker to cook....
My mother in law asked a company come to check and quote how much it costs to repair the hot water system.
They said the system is totally broken and the old system was complicated, It cost more than 2000 euros to change the whole system.
I were not sure how long we will live here, so we really don\t know if it worth to repair it.
However, my mother in law decided to pay for the repairing.
Lucky us, the Japanese work really efficiently.
They spent only one day to complete the difficult construction (I could find its really a tough work when they were doing it).
Now we can take hot bath and cook again.
Japanese love to take hot bath and they also want to save water.
So the hot water system is quite unique.
It can keep the hot water in the bath tube to the same temperature (like 41 or 42 degree) as long as you want.
The system can also keep the hot water in the shower the same temperature (like 41 or 42 degree) too.
Then you dont need to adjust the warm water with hot water and cold water.
I love this system when I came to visit M's family.
But I didnt know the system costs so much....
No wonder I can hardy find the same system in other country.