TXZZ wrote:

> any "ideal neghborhood" tos earch for?

Go to a large bookstore with an English language section and see if you
can't find updated versions (economic situation changing and all) of
those "Jobs in Japan" or "Teaching English in Japan" type books. Back
when things were still good (pre 1991), they used to suggest making
copies of flyers advertising your services and leaving them in
mailboxes. Any decent looking neighborhood should do. I don't know if
those get results. Leave messages on public bulletin boards advertising
yourself.

Got that cell phone yet? Maybe you won't need registration papers, just
ID for those prepaid ones you can get in convenience stores.

But for sure, you should put out feelers to anyone you meet that you
are looking for work. Don't grovel by offering to work for food or to
do their gardening. If you're going to go that far, you may as well try
to be an illegal laborer and find some labor office with the homeless
and foreigners to do construction or something on a casual basis. I was
going to talk about being homeless, they  know how to survive, but I
just remembered it was winter in Japan. No, you shouldn't have to go
that far. The lives of the homeless I met sucked, particularly in the
winter.

> What type of school would accept me? Not a major one, and perhaps difficult to find in tokyo right?

It would take someone kind of desperate and not really on the level to
take someone without a proper visa, so probably not one of the major
ones, and maybe not a good job. But it won't hurt to check. Try the
yellow pages for those eikaiwa places, or walk into one looking decent
and ask, and hope for the best.

I hope you have a return ticket, or will keep enough money for one.