translation.en: And so, I abandoned my dream life for a single room on the backstreets of Kyoto, Japan, which was the place that had long exerted a strong, really mysterious gravitational pull on me.
translation.zh: 因此，我放弃我梦想中的工作， 就为了待在一个位于日本京都 某后街里的单间房内， 这地方长久以来产生了一种强烈的 对我来说极为神秘的吸引力。