juicy

Given the lush weather Tokyo decided to grant us today - an 23 odd degrees and splendid sun - I conducted a wee trip to Jiyugaoka with Stella to explore the area which has, up until today, only just been noted as an annoying stop on the train going to/back from uni.

Turns out it's not too bad!

It has an array of small streets with small shops of all kinds, and we ventured into some of them, finding the most interesting, most Japanese things! How does pocket soap in sakura shape hit you? A little plastic container with thin sheets of soap - perfect to keep in your purse and use as appropriately when the public facilities let you down. Or a textile container for your chewing gum packet? How about a textile pocket pouch for your toast?

Any problem you may or may not have (or not be aware of having) - Japan has the solution, rest assure.

We also stumbled across a wonderful little place called Robeks Juice. Smoothies, fresh fruit juices, vitamin shots, and on and on. Now, these places are on every street corner in the UK and Sweden but rather rare over here. So we splashed all out and I enjoyed an absolutely lovely-yubbely raspberry smoothie. Bloody delicious.

Anyway, that's my rock star Saturday. Tomorrow I shall be heading to Hokkaido with my gangsters so blogging will take a bit of a break until next weekend. Fear not, the wait will be worth its weight in gold - plenty of photos of northern semi-Russian lands will come. That's a promise. No crossing of fingers.

Ta!

Jo x