Crepes are common in Harujuku. There's several little shops, usually with long lines and usually right next to one another selling crepes. After visiting the owl village I decided to stop by the Santa Monica Crepe section and get in line for a crepe. I picked out their Matcha Cheesecake special with Matcha whipped cream. [...]
While talking to my friend about things I wanted to do when I visited I mentioned going to an Owl cafe. My friend made reservations and we arrived early to check in before being told to leave and come back at our alloted time. Which was fine, we walked around the packed Harujuku streets and [...]
I'm pretty stumped at how anyone in Japan gets tickets to visit the Ghibli museum. My friend spent months trying to no avail, but while I was visiting Roppongi Hills was having an exhibit for Ghibli and a cafe to go with it which blew up on my Facebook feed. My friend, her boyfriend and [...]
Underneath Futakoshinchi station is a small restaurant/cafe called Kohikan. It is outside of the East exit. Ezzy and I went there for a quick breakfast before I was to head into Tokyo for a tour. I ordered pancakes with strawberries. They weren't the best pancakes in the world, a little crunch on the outside and the [...]
After spending the afternoon with Emily I retrieved my suitcase from it's locker and lugged it to Shibuya to sit near Hachikō and wait for my friend Ezzy to get off work. I didn't have to wait too long and soon we were off in search of ramen, she'd received a list of suggestions from her [...]
Emily had recently spent some time at MOMAT and suggested it as our way to hide from the sun for a bit and soak up some air conditioning. We got there with just enough time to quickly enjoy some art before the museum closed. We were also lucky because we went on the first Sunday of [...]
Emily and I really wanted to sit and enjoy a cafe along the way to the Imperial Palace, partially for wifi. I was armed with my parasol but the air was just heavy and hot so as soon as we saw Runoa which had a sign saying free wifi we hurried in to look at [...]
I went back to Tokyo for summer vacation (again). After I finished this year's summer camp I left for about a week in Tokyo. I figured a week would be plenty of time to redeem Tokyo from the disaster it was last year plus there were several friends I could catch up with. I also expected to [...]
My trip to Tokyo was very last minute and like most last minute trips crammed to the brim with stuff. Even despite the misadventures of getting lost after the Obon festival and coming back to the hotel room at 1 am to find the door propped open and that mystery never being solved, I had [...]
On my first night in Tokyo as we were wandering around Shibuya we passed a place near our hotel called Sunday Coffee with an interesting list of drinks posted outside. Since it looked like it was also a restaurant we were pretty determined to stop by but had trouble getting back before it closed, until my [...]
