The base is set up in organized chaos, especially now that they are working on the steam pipes along Airlift Ave (the main road through the base). The base is divided into four parts: North, South, East, and West. North and South are where most of the military buildings are located. The East and West ends are mainly housing.

EAST SIDE HOUSING
This is where we live. There are several towers and many garden houses. We live in a tower on the first floor right near the entrance. So our balconies are more like terraces. We have in the east side a fire station, shopette, East Side Elementary School, Tayio Recreation center (which has the thrift shop, music/dance rooms, and where the Yokota Players perform), a teen center, an outdoor pool, AMC (Army Mobile Command or the terminal for flights), a dry cleaner, the only gas station, Popeyes, Auto Care Center and the Four Seasons (a sporting goods/toy/hardware store). We also have a Japanese train track that goes through this section. A train goes by every ten minutes and no matter what we are required to stop at the train tracks before crossing. Also to get to the East Side we have to cross a Japanese highway. Meaning we have to go off and then on base to get home. They don’t have to check our ideas if we are coming from straight across the highway (there is a light).

NORTH END
This is where part of the flight line and its required buildings are located along with the Kanto Lodge (billeting), the BX, Yujo Recreation Center (computer lab, travel agents, tours sign-up, the biggest movie rental place in base), Skills Development, University of Maryland Asian Division, Family Support, the bowling alley, the East Chapel, the post office, law office, the fitness center, Burger King, Officer’s Club, library and some garden housing.

SOUTH END
There is more garden housing, towers, the middle and high school, the housing office, a bunch of warehouses, the rest of the flightline, the Enlisted Club, and it is also where Sam works.

WEST SIDE HOUSING
You have to cross the flight line to get here. There is only two routes to do so. One on the north end and the other on the south. They have the hospital, East Side Elementary School, the indoor swimming pool, a shopette, fire station, and the teen center. I usually only go that way to go to the hospital which also contains the pharmacy and Life Skills, which is where I am to go in a little over an hour. Life Skills is the counseling center. They already had me see a psychiatrist which said I needed to take anit-depressants. I said no. He asked why and I told him the truth. I don’t want to be chemically altered and I have a phobia of new medications (don’t know why).

Well I have to finish getting ready to go today. Have lots to do including food shopping.