"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
news:BCE67143.1B8F1%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
> in article slrncc0bj0.vb3.dvc@godzilla.gol.ad.jp, David Van Cleef at
> dvc@gol.com wrote on 6/4/04 5:32 PM:
>
> > In article <adVvc.5264$uC6.721@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com>, necoandjeff
wrote:
> >> "Scott Reynolds" <sar@gol.com> wrote in message
> >> news:c9p50e$4qb$1@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp...
> >>> The Tokyo immigration office is out in Shinagawa now, in a shiny new
> >>> building surrounded by warehouses and located on reclaimed land. The
> >>> crowds are as large as ever, but at least the atmosphere is not as
grim
> >>> and tacky as it used to be.
> >>>
> >>> As always, it is a good idea to get there early and to bring a good
> >>> (thick) book.
> >>
> >> "The" Tokyo immigration office? There used to be several.
> >>
> >
> > Don't you just love "progress"?
> >
> > Glad I can go to the relatively uncrowded Saitama office.
>
> I know I must have missed something, but why go to Tokyo immigration
office,
> when there is one still in Nagoya, or if you don't like the location of
the
> one in Nagoya just hope a densha to beautiful Gifu (the immigration office
> is across the street from the station.
>

Do you think we live in a modern, industrialized nation?  You aren't allowed
to choose which immigration office you attend!  The choice is simple - the
central Tokyo office or the regional office in the prefecture in which your
gaijin card is registered - this is usually in the prefectural capital.

If Nagoya was a possibility for me I probably would have met Declan by now.

--
jonathan