walkabout-japan

Day 73
Immigration office + Russian's bazaar
GPS: N 37°, 55.170'
E 139°, 01.258'
Ort: Niigata (park on the beach)
Etmal: 28 km
Total: 1700 km
The immigration office is really in the airport and moreover,
it's a good day for administrative paperwork, grey, cold and drizzling. After I've completed all forms, told my history and explained my desire, they inform me that they will call me
when the extension will be agreed to. When? Maybe in one week up to 14 days...
I have to leave out the main part of what I've answered, but
my arguments have obviously been strong enough to give top priority to the matter and call the boss. He tells me that he will have a look at my special case and is back in about one hour. Well then, I'm going to have a coke...
10 minutes later, I haven't yet finished my coke, I get the decision: they have agreed to the extension. Wow! Is that the Japanese German friendship? Great! The rest of the day I
must cross the industrial harbour of Niigata-Higashi where Russians and Arabs handle countless deals with used cars
or whatsoever. It's good to practice once in a while my Russian. Easy going…
Today I've walked again till the end, I couldn't go on further. There's still 1 km to the beach, 300 m to the colour factory (smells good!) and it's still drizzling…What a day!


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