Tokyo | Twenty-Four Hours 5

July 4, 2014

Our lastly solar daytime inward Nippon was a pretty lazy one, exploring Matt's local area, Kōenji. It's a lovely neighbourhood - a few by in addition to large pedestrianised streets amongst lots of cute shops, bars in addition to restaurants. We had a few plans for lunch, but were stymied past times ane house having closed downwards in addition to ane solely opening for dinner. While nosotros reassessed our options, nosotros refuelled amongst a pair of the twee-est doughnuts inward the footing from Floresta doughnuts.

They were excellent, amongst dense dough in addition to sweet, subtle flavours - a far cry from the over-the-top richness of our Portland experience. With a sugarry charge, nosotros decided to supply to Meu Nota for a jetlag-free visit.

Lunch is express to a pair of dissimilar sets, which I establish a much to a greater extent than fun agency to explore what they convey to offer. We went for the total prepare (1230円 $12.90), amongst a paprika flavoured soup for Cindy in addition to a to a greater extent than traditional miso for me. Alongside the soups were an amazing mix of fried goodies, pickled veggies, salad, corn bread, chocolate-brown rice in addition to a petty bowl of tofu spread. Throw inward your selection of java in addition to tea in addition to you've got an incredible repast - I'd definitely recommend swinging past times hither for tiffin ane day.

After a petty flake to a greater extent than wandering around, it was fourth dimension to seat an destination to our iii calendar week jeopardy in addition to outpouring on the prepare out to the airport.

There was withal fourth dimension for ane concluding flake of eating - nosotros scraped together our lastly yen for a pair of umeboshi onigiri in addition to closed to lastly mochi piece nosotros waited to board.

It was an incredible iii calendar week vacation (plus our respective before operate jaunts), amongst in addition to then much wonderful food, ranging from fruit-loop garnished doughnuts to a banquet of fragile Japanese temple food. Hopefully yous haven't minded our slightly self-indulgent vacation recapping - our regular, Melbourne-based programming volition live resumed shortly!