On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 00:03:18 +0900, "mr.sumo.snr"
<llanelli14NOSPAM@yahoo.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
inscribed:

>"Michael Cash" <buggeroff@fake.com> wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:28:51 +0900, "mr.sumo.snr"
>> <llanelli14NOSPAM@yahoo.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
>> inscribed:
>>
>> If you're talking about the one down at the Shinagawa Wharf area, I
>> remember when they were building it. Had no idea what the hell they
>> were working on at the time. First clue I had that it was an
>> immigration office was sometime last year when I stopped at a
>> convenience store a stone's throw from the place, one supposedly
>> operated by the Port Authority for the benefit of the folks who have
>> to work down in that area devoid of restaurants, shops, etc. What that
>> means, in other words, is that I wouldn't expect to encounter any
>> (other) foreigners down there. Went in and the place was lousy with
>> them. Drove by the front of the new building, saw all the gaigins, and
>> finally figured out they put the immigration office down there.
>>
>> You should see all the hapless lost gaigins searching for the place in
>> the mornings. Befuddled gaigins tend to be on the north side of the
>> bridge between Tennozu Isle Station and Shinagawa Futo. More
>> confident-looking gaigins tend to be on the south side of the bridge.
>> They're crew members on freighters docked at Ooi Futo.
>>
>
>I'm right in thinking that if you're an 'out-of-towner' that's THE only
>office you can use in Tokyo.
>
>I was so glad to be driving when I had to find it.  That whole place
>reminded me of Canary Wharf in London back in the mid 1980s.  New office
>buildings all over the place but nowhere to buy lunch.

It's really easy as pie to find the place. You just drive south on
Yamate-dori until you find cars outnumbered by tractor-trailers at a
ratio of about 100 to 1, pass under the shinkansen tracks, around the
curve, straight on down a couplathree traffic lights and look for all
the gaigins out in front of a nice tall new building on your right. If
you find yourself zipping up a hill or going around another curve,
you've missed it.





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Michael Cash

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                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College