小千谷

That's "Ojiya", the city I'd be on my way to if I didn't get/pick the intermap field position. I guess they had made a placement and sent out a welcome type of letter to me before I turned them down.

Haven't looked up much about it, and probably shouldn't since I turned it down and accepted intermap, why try to find how nice a place is that I'm not going to. But from first glance of location, it's pretty near the epicentre of the big earthquake a couple weeks ago.