Everyday. I live there, in the capital. I will move to the countryside as soon as I can. City life makes me sick. The air, the water, the soil. Poisoned. Villages aren't a lot better either but they're a bit closer to how things are supposed to be.
Never, but I do want to see the cherry trees we got as a gift from Japan about a hundred years ago... Not sure exactly where they are planted, but it's probably an easier option than flying to Japan at the moment.
I haven't been to my capital. I would like to take my son there though, he's a major politics nut and he would love it. Said son did have a layover there on his way to San Francisco for a Model UN conference a few years ago, but he didn't leave the airport.