Which Japanese university would be best when studying Japanese abroad?

Question:

When I'm in my second year of university of the Japanese course, we get to study Japanese abroad in Japan for a year. I want to know which one of these universities would be best and why, by the way, I'm not sure if I want to go kansai gaidai because somehow I think the kansai-Ben will make my japananese un-authentic and not "normal". Anyway here's the choices of universities I have in Japan:

Tohoku Area, Northeast of Japan
Akita International University 
Chubu Area, Central Japan
Nanzan University 
Tokyo Area
Hosei University [http://www.hosei.ac.jp/english]
ICU International Christian University [http://www.icu.ac.jp/index_e.html]
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies [http://www.tufs.ac.jp/index-e.html]
Waseda University [http://www.waseda.jp/top/index-e.html]
Kansai Area, West Japan
Kansai Gaidai University [http://www.kansaigaidai.ac.jp/asp/02_int…
Kobe Gakuin University [http://www.kobegakuin.ac.jp/english/inde…
Konan University [http://www.konan-u.ac.jp/english/indexE.…
Doshisha University (scheduled from 2010/11) [http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/english]
Kyushu Area, Southwest Japan
Fukuoka University [http://www.fukuoka-u.ac.jp/english]
Kumamoto University [http://www.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/univ-e.html]

I would rather have one in Tokyo than anywhere else so can you choose the best in the Tokyo area thn a few from the others and explain why I should choose that one when studying abroad compared to others. I'm a guy by the way if for some reason that matters.

Answer:

If learning Japanese is your priority go where you will be immersed as deep as possible. Therefore Tokyo is out, and Akita is a pretty good candidate. I wouldn't worry about the Kansai-ben thing, the average resident of Kansai just does not have a overpowering accent. Living there is not going to give you an impenetrable accent any more than living in NYC would make one talk like Bobby DeNiro in "Mean Streets".