Moriagari is a Japanese word expressing enthusiasm and excitement. If you are passionate about learning Japanese or are a Japanese speaker passionate about learning English this is the group for you. Our 1,040 members are excited about our art walks, museum tours, dinning out, karaoke, awadori dance, transcript analysis and group language exchange. Moriagari is the best place to improve your Japanese/English skills while having fun. We are truly a "Bay Area Meetup" based in San Francisco but we also have regular events in the South Bay, and the East Bay.  Although we hope you will make a lot of new friends, we are NOT A DATING CLUB, we're a community of people interested in intercultural and language exchange. Being a social group we require that our members keep a photo on their profiles and actually fill out their profiles including an introduction