Matthew Endo <matt@gol.com> wrote:

> necoandjeff <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote:
> 
> > Tokyo immigration can be a shit hole. Unless things have changed over the
> > past 5 or 6 years, my recollection is that the immigration office out at the
> > Tokyo Air City Terminal (is that what it was called?) near Suitengumae
> > station is one of the less frequented, less crowded offices. 
> 
> I posted a followup but it never appeared.

A follow-up from you appeared, but maybe that wasn't the one you meant.
> 
> That office was closed about 3 or 4 years ago...

It was convenient and very fast, but prone to mistakes. My (then)
brand-new passport acquired a Final Extension to an entertainment visa
there, which startled me at the time.

> I always ran into groups of foreign "entertainers", Pilipinas mostly...

Usually Russian, when I was there. 

> ... usually together with one young Japanese man holding all their
> passports.

yup.

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