I meant it to be read like "He goes to school while working" as in, these are two things he does separately and balances out, rather than "he watches TV while eating," as in, he does these two things concurrently. This is why it's good other people are reading and commenting; my translations make sense in my head, I know what I mean, but....
I can't imagine anyone taking an express train for something less than about two hours away by regular means of commute, myself, but we're getting way too hazy there. Probably safe to say the university's at least 100km away and not on a separate island? We know Sotoba is located in the western region of Japan, which could be anywhere from further south to just barely south of dead center, leaving the location of Taniguchi's base of operations wide open in either direction... Whether he comes for two days in a row or two separate days during the week would also determine how far it's realistic for him to come from. But we don't know for sure. So, yeah, square one. Damn it.
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I can't imagine anyone taking an express train for something less than about two hours away by regular means of commute, myself, but we're getting way too hazy there. Probably safe to say the university's at least 100km away and not on a separate island? We know Sotoba is located in the western region of Japan, which could be anywhere from further south to just barely south of dead center, leaving the location of Taniguchi's base of operations wide open in either direction... Whether he comes for two days in a row or two separate days during the week would also determine how far it's realistic for him to come from. But we don't know for sure. So, yeah, square one. Damn it.