The language school at which I teach occupies the second floor of a building a little smaller than most of the houses in the residential area in which it is situated. The first floor is divided in half; one side has my apartment, the bathroom, the staircase, and the hallway. The other half is rented to some sort of business.
When I first moved in, the other half was serving as office space to some sort of shoe wholesaler. They moved out about a month after I moved in; I can only hope that it wasn’t in response to my presence. Shortly thereafter, the space was put through some fairly extensive renovations, and a new business moved in.
I’ve been trying since then to figure out what that new business is, or does, with little success. Their door has the decals of about a dozen electronics and appliance manufacturers, but is devoid of anything I can figure out as a business name. It’s a coin toss as to whether anyone will be there on a particular day. I have been able to work out their operating hours; they run from 1800-0300 daily. Childrens’ voices and noises of play regularly emanate from the business, usually from about 2200 through closing.
As a side note, I’m becoming convinced that the interior walls in this building were specifically designed to be acoustically transparent; I get a quality of sound I would have imagined impossible to achieve through a barrier of any sort.
I do occasionally run into people in the hallway, but I’m not fluent enough in Japanese to know how to ask politely what the business actually is.
Ideas?
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