Azabu Catholic Church
Meeting Schedule

Station: Roppongi

DIRECTIONS AND ACCESS INFORMATION

This is a temporary location, only used when the Franciscan Chapel Center is having their bazaar, usually during the month of October. This year, from Monday, September 29, 2008 ~ Wednesday, October 22, 2008, meetings will be held here on the 2nd floor.

Please don't forget to take your shoes off before going upstairs.
(Slippers will be prepared around the bottom of the stairs.) Thank you.

ADDRESS: 3-21-6 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo

DIRECTIONS:

Take the Hibiya or Oedo Subway Line to Roppongi Station, take Exit C1 and follow the underground passageway to Roppongi Hills. Do not go up the main escalators to the second floor. Instead, veer to your right and you will see a sign for Roppongi Street. Go up to the street level there. A big overhead freeway will be in front of you and you will be on Roppongi Dori (Roppongi Street). Turn to your left and go straight. You will need to cross several big intersections. Keep walking down this street for several blocks, and gradually you will go down a slope. Turn left at the corner with a bar that has a green sign on one side and a glass building on the other. You'll see The Azabu Catholic Church on your right after about a minute. (Please check the map and virtual tour - photos #1-21 for landmarks.)

From Roppongi Station, you can also go to the street level at Exit 1 from the Hibiya line or Exit 3 from the Oedo line, and then turn left and follow the directions above. (See photos #22-25, and then #5-21.)

If you are walking from the Roppongi area, it is no longer necessary to go up and over at Roppongi Hills. You can now cross the street directly.

The church is only about 5 - 7 minutes from Roppongi Hills, but please allow a bit more time the first time you go. (It's about 15 minutes from Roppongi Crossing for those coming from that area.)

1. Take exit 1C for Roppongi Hills. Then walk through the underground passageway to the escalators.

2. Here are the escalators. Do not go up, instead veer to your right.

3. Go this way and soon you will see some stairs to the street level. (The escalators go to the second floor.)

4. When you see this sign go up the stairs.

5. Once on the street, turn to your left and you will see this. Go straight ahead. Keep the elevated freeway on your right.

6. Cross this intersection.

7. Pass the Smokers' Style. It will be on your left.

8. Cross the street toward Pandora. Keep going straight.

9. You will see this green fountain as part of a storefront.

10. Next door is the Charleston Cafe which will be on your left.

11. This lovely hedge will also be on your left.

12. And a giraffe in a shop window.

13. As you keep going, you will notice that you begin to go downhill.

14. After the red awning there is a bar on the corner with a green sign. Turn left here.

15.This handbag shop is at the opposite corner, across from the green sign, where we turn left.

16. Head towards the little red brick building at the end of the lane.

17. This will be visible on your left.

18. This Japanese-style building will be up ahead on the right-hand side, just before the church.

19. This is Azabu Catholic Church.

20. Go in this gate.

21. The meeting room is where the sliding glass doors are.

22. Alternatively, if you come up from Hibiya Line Exit 1 (or Oedo Line Exit 3 which is very near), turn left at the street level.

23. Ths view will be in front of you, with Roppongi Hills up ahead.

24. Tully's Coffee will be on your left.

25. This is Roppongi Hills. Now follow photos #5-21 above. (No need to turn left again as it instructs in #5 as you have already done so. Just keep going straight.)