Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!cyber-magic.org!uinet.or.jp!Q.T.Honey!newsfeed.rim.or.jp!newsfeed2.kddnet.ad.jp!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Michael Cash Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Nagoya Immigration relocating Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 00:45:48 +0900 Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: <40BEC962.2050903@hotmail.com> <2i829mFkeoohU1@uni-berlin.de> <2ibh9qFl63h8U1@uni-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de Z6QWm+dF/MHSxVagYU29xwGiuWitGES2UKdBeWT6W68vKLfNg= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:14191 On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 00:03:18 +0900, "mr.sumo.snr" brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed: >"Michael Cash" wrote in message >news:lao0c0500ouv6e3tj183ag7pnl2v20kvm3@4ax.com... >> On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:28:51 +0900, "mr.sumo.snr" >> 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. -- Michael Cash "I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of a high school transcript." Dr. Howard Sprague Dean of Admissions Mount Pilot College