Another person to meet today! We went to Famima and got ourselves the usual konbini breakfast. This time we planned to meet █████████████ at Jimbocho, the book town.
We went to Hatagaya station and then used Keio New Line, which transfers Shinjuku line without having to get off the train. Funnily enough, that’s the line that I called poor-looking last time. Keio New Line side also looks rather meh.
We arrived at the Jimbocho station, and it had a nice book pattern on its walls which I sadly didn’t photograph. We actually ended up arriving at exact same minute as █████████████ did so that was nice.
She told us she went out through exit A6, and when we went in there it was actually the only one closed, so we joked that we noclipped through. We ended up meeting at exit A7, and she looked very fashionable.
Wow, █████████████ and her got along very quickly. So much girl talk, lol. We went to a book store that only sells cat-related books and I found a cute book I could actually read, so I got it. █████████████ also got us cute bookmarks as a gift.
We slowly wandered a while afterwards, while the girls were talking non-stop. I’m not used to this much talk lol, we walked super slowly because of constantly stopping to talk about random things lol. We went into a few book stores and █████████████ bought a big poster in one of them. There was a cool photogenic spot on one of the streets with bookshelves outside that I took a lot of photos of. I really liked the alley nearby too.
Afterwards we went into a book cafe, which is really really cool and cozy concept. I feel like if I were to open a cafe, this is the type of thing I’d do. It wasn’t exactly perfected, because the lights weren’t dim and yellow enough, but it’s still cool to see and be in. We got treated to drinks and nori cheese sandwiches and continued our endless conversations. It was rather hard for me to be fully present in them, they just moved too fast for me lol. 2 american girls being together is something else.
She told us she knows a cool spot nearby with 2 bridges, so we walked over there. Just in front of the view, we noticed a lil market and decided to check it out. Immediately, we noticed honey stand and walked nearby, and it was apparently ran by a Ukrainian woman from Dnipro! That was quite unexpected. I didn’t really plan to buy any honey, but █████████████ seemed much more interested, and the woman gave us like 10 different samples of various honey.
I never tried most of these honeys, and it was a very interesting experience. I didn’t even know you can make honey from all of these plants. There even was a pine honey… very interesting flavor. Each honey basically had signature flavor of the plant it was made from. She also sold Adjika, which was probably the tastiest adjika I’ve ever had. █████████████ ended up buying 2 bottles of adjika and 1 or 2 honeys for a total price of 16,000 yen… Yeah, the prices there were crazy.
Apparently, the cool place with 2 bridges was Ochanomizu station, lol. We arrived there at a beautiful time and I took a couple of good photos. Ochanomizu station is definitely one of the most beautiful stations in Tokyo.
█████████████ was kinda tired at this point so that’s where we separated. We walked back to Jimbocho and wondered around, looking at all the restaurants. █████████████ constantly pointed at places and asking if we should go, and it made me kinda sad to say «no» so many times…
We took train back home and we still couldn’t find any restaurant that we both would want to go to, and in the end just started going back home. On the way, we saw a first actual grocery store called Santoku and got a bunch of food there for tonight and breakfast.
Residential areas of Hatagaya are very beautiful.
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