Tomonori is looking for the Kyoto enclave. They'll have already spent years preparing for this together, so maybe they won't have any use for him, but that's why he's tried to learning everything he possibly can. He is ready to focus on languages, or creative writing, or alchemy, or artificing- whatever it is they need from him. If they're willing to offer him a spot, that is. (And a tower. He's not sure if Kyoto has a tower. He thinks Shanghai does. Maybe he should be aiming for Shanghai instead. He's not sure, so it can't hurt to talk to both enclaves.
After dinner, during which he sits alone and works out a new spell idea in his head (for improving on the food), Tomonori finds the enclave (or some subset of it, at least) and tries to secure an introduction.
"Hello. Do you need anything?"