Whether you came from Downtown or Uptown, you should now be standing within
a few steps of a street corner, with the main thoroughfare six-lane street
on your right, and a smaller, two-lane street directly ahead of you.
Cross the small, two-lane street, and continue
walking, straight toward the Hiroo Garden Plaza along the big, six-lane
thoroughfare for about three to four minutes, until you come to the next
intersection. The cross-street will be another large, six-lane street, and there
will be a big, four-way overhead walkway above the crossing, having stairways
going up to it from each of the four corners of the intersection.
The name of this intersection is Tengenji-bashi
(ten-gen-gee bashi). Turn to your left at this intersection and walk straight
ahead for two to three minutes. You will find The New Sanno, a large, dark-brown
brick building, on your left. Come right in!
If You Get Lost: We hope it won't happen, but if so, just ask any Japanese person. Ask
whichever of the following words are appropriate, speaking in an unaccented
monotone, without stressing any syllable:
Hibiya-sen (Hih-bee-yuh-sen)
(Hibiya subway line, the only line
that runs near The New Sanno)
Hiroo (Hear-oh)
(Hiroo subway
station on the Hibiya subway line, the station nearest The New
Sanno)
Tengenji (Ten-gen-jee)(Hard "g")
(A famous large street
intersection, just a two or three minute walk from New Sanno. Almost every Tokyo
taxi driver will know it, while there still may be a few who don't know "The New
Sanno Hotel")
New Sanno
Hotel (new sahn-no ho-teh-roo)
(The New
Sanno Hotel, as most Japanese would pronounce it. Hotel in Japanese, becomes
"hoteru", pronounced ho-teh-roo. A few Tokyo taxi drivers might not know it, but
most do. If you have a driver who doesn't know it, just tell him "Tengenji" (see
above).
Where is the Hiroo
Station? (Hear-oh no eh-ki wa doko desuka?)
Where is The New Sanno Hotel?
(Sahn-no ho-teh-roo wa doko desuka?)
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