Usually wherever u put down on your forms they ignore!
(unless it is a small place in the middle of nowhere!)
It's pot luck usually! So just apply & see!
Niigata is pretty fun but a long shaped prefecture, & if u like snowboarding, you'll love winter here!!
Since when were ex-JETs allowed to return to do the program?
That's the first of I've heard about that!!
Anyone else?!?
If you like countryside, I would recomend Gifu, my hometown.
It's nice place where greens and rivers are beautiful.
Could be Nagano.
Well, I hope you will happily to stay in Japan!