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Is Riverwalk Center too busy in 2026?
weekday mornings before 10, kinshicho shotengai after
Kinshicho's arcade, before the pachinko crowd.
before 11, pachinko crowd rolls in around noon
The 10am cutoff is right but aim for Tuesday or Wednesday, since Monday mornings still catch the weekend overflow.
yeah and the riverside benches fill up first, so grab a coffee & walk the path before you commit to a spot
sounds about right, though the shotengai gets its own lunch rush so timing matters
lunch rush hits the north arcade around 12:30 when the office workers from the olinas side flood in, so 11 to noon is your window
just avoid the tsukiji market spillover crowd, they wander over after 11 and kill the vibe
Honestly the crowds did shift after the riverbank walkway got redone, it wasn't like this five years ago. If you go, aim for right at opening on a Tue or Wed, weekends are a lost cause.
that walkway redo was 2023, right?
Tokyo work visa renewal 2026: what documents do I need?
Your employer files the COE at their local immigration bureau, so ask them to start it now since it takes 1 to 3 months.
Agreed, and add a month of buffer since January is peak renewal season at the Shinagawa immigration bureau.
ask them to send u the COE scan before u book the flight
employers here often drag their feet on the COE until u nudge them, so get a written timeline from them first
One thing: the bakery needs a 雇用保険 and 社会保険 setup before immigration will even look at it, so confirm they've got that sorted.
Timing matters too: COE applications submitted in late March tend to clear faster than the December crunch before the new fiscal year.
Right, and it's worth naming the actual office on your side of the desk: the employer lodges it at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau at Konan, Minato, not the local ward office. Some bakeries assume otherwise and lose a week.
The usual snag is the job description: "baker" alone can read as unskilled, so the employer should write it around baking techniques and recipe development to fit the skilled labour category. Also check your passport name matches the COE exactly, middle names cause delays.
Also get the employer to attach a few photos of finished products and any competition or training certificates, since immigration officers here respond well to visual proof.
Middle name mismatch cost me six weeks. Match exactly.