This morning we headed towards the Nippori area. This was a pleasant and peaceful walk, starting from Nippori Station and ending at Nishi-Nippori Station on the JR Yamamote Line. Spared from the bombings during WWII, this neighborhood is quiet and quaint, dotted with small temples, shrines and old cemeteries. Unfortunately, many of the shops and museums were closed for Oban. We started out at the Yanaka Cemetery and made our way through various small temples and shrines.
On the way back to Shibuya, we stopped in Ikebukuro, to visit the Japanese Traditional Craft Centre. It's a shop in Metropolitan Plaza Mall, but it's set up more like a museum with displays of lacquerware, ceramics, knives, basket weaving and many types of other crafts from around Japan.
Breakfast was hard to find this morning. Not many options in the early morning. Coffee&Donut And On And opened at 8am.
We were pleasantly surprised. This is crack cocaine in donut form. These are soft, tasty, airy, sugar coated joys. I could have easily ate a dozen. Blueberry cheese with morsels of dried blueberries. Black soybean with brown sugar. Lemon tea. Cassis orange. Maple Almond. Caramel Almond Chocolate. How does it compare to Krispy Kreme? Far more satisfying.
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