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From Yoyogi-uehara to Ebisu / Sakura #1: Meguro-gawa
This weekend the weather was just great! Today we took the bus down to Yoyogi-uehara for lunch, after which we walked down to Ebisu.
The restaurant we first planned to eat at was closed, so we ended up at West Park Café. They have a good burger, although my favorite remains Sasebo!
Walking through Yoyogi-uehara, we stopped at hand-made donuts shop Harrits. It had been a long time since we had a chance to buy their donuts, as they're always sold out! Next stop was Maruichi Bagel down the street, another small shop also very popular. They make real New York style bagels, and they're the best around! Very friendly too!
Next we walked to No.12 Gallery not knowing what to expect. I remembered Chabe (Cubismo Grafico) mentioning on his blog that he made a mix CD for an exhibition, but turned out that was the week before. Anyway the current exhibition was great! It's a German artist named Peter Kienzle (aka Superette) who does drawings and designs. He has done work for Tokion, Lodown, OK Fred, Colette, Uniqlo, etc. We happened to like a simple illustration of wrestlers, and then we noticed that there were T-shirts of it, homemade prints on H&M T's. I got the yellow one to the right. :) The artist was present and we chatted just a little bit in Japanese, which he speaks very well. Very nice guy!
The exhibition finishes tomorrow, on Monday the 24th. Catch it if you can! (Details at TokyoArtBeat.)
Just around the corner, we happened to find these ducks out in the front yard of an apartment building. Some sort of Easter surprise? :) I took these photos peeking through the fence and plants.
Nearby is located the very first Freshness Burger shop, before it became a large chain (now even international). People were lined up waiting for their lunch.
We continued our walk down passing through Nakameguro, where some of the cherry blossoms over Meguro-gawa were already in bloom! Everyone was taking photos. The sakura season is here! And this is the beginning of my annual sakura photo series.
Making it down to Ebisu, we went to have some Japanese-style ice cream at Japanese Ice Ouca. I had kinako kuromitsu, sakura azuki and coffee flavors. Comes with tea, a senbei, and salty konbu to reset your taste buds between flavors. Delicious!
We finished by walking to Shibuya and taking a bus back home. According to Gmaps Pedometer, we walked about 10.7km!
Larger sizes and more photos at Flickr
Posted on March 23, 2008 at 23:18 | Tweet
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