Tokyo - Sunday- Ochaanomizu - Our School

We had gone back to our old neighborhood and wanted next to go to our old school where we had taught English as  a Second Language for four years ( 1974 - 1978 )

When we came out of the station, we were shocked at the change. No building had been more than two stories high but now there were all these tall buildings, even a new street or two.

Walking to the other side of the station, we saw a familiar sight . At the intersection, there  was a police box (the smallest building) where the policeman would yell at pedestrians and tell them to  move faster as the light was changing.

We almost gave up finding our school. The neighborhood had changed, incredibly so. But then we saw the sign for the Hilltop Hotel, just two blocks from the school.

Now if it had not been a holiday, we could have gotten information right here and found the school earlier.

And there it was : the Athenee Francais,  a school that taught English and French and also offered Greek and Latin but most of the students chose the first two languages.

It was a multi colored school building.

The other side of the school.

Coffee shops then and now dotted the neighborhood.

This McDonald's was here in '74 and perhaps the most popular restaurant in town.

But times do change, they now deliver!