I drove to Sendai to visit the Immigration Office there and submit my permanent residency application. I have to get a fair bit of additional documentation (records of tax payments, etc). Will send those by mail.
I saw some big flashes of lightning ⚡️ on the way home last night along with significant rainfall. Not as bad as the time when we had some flooding and a railway bridge washout though. 😅
Manager of the cafe where I had lunch today told a story about an interesting incident on the weekend. She was working in the cafe's foodtruck when she was approached by two policemen who asked to talk to her helper, a university student. Apparently he had a passing resemblance to a wanted suspect in a notorious fatal hit and run traffic accident. 😳
Cleaned myself up in the bath house in the basement of the hotel, wandered to Akihabara station, and am now sitting in a Beck's coffee shop in Ueno station waiting on my 8:13 train. 🚆