This is also the area where you'll find the Ice Cream & BBC stores, which are just down the road from Supreme and Undercover (which are in the same building), the Alife store, Flight Club, Chapter and the other heavy hitting street wear and skate brands. For the ladies there's endless boutiques, with south american print tees and skirts, customised second hand clothing, fringed shoes, about seventeen varieties of Beams and the fabulous La Foret department store/gallery space/clean toilets. It's an easy place to burn through your savings.
I suspect it might also be the birthplace of Japan's crepe craze. There's a couple of iconic places on Takeshit St that sell crepes rolled up in a paper cone filled with fake cream, syrup and other life-shortening options. We both went for cheesecake varieties – I went for caramel crunch which has ice cream or fake cream, a slice of cheesecake, caramel, nuts and syrup – and Lu tried thought she'd try the chocolate cheesecake but with an extra scoop of chocolate ice cream.
Caramel Crunch
Chocolate cheesecake with extra ice cream
Neighbouring Aoyama is more designer – Caws, Comme de Garcon, this iconic looking Prada store and the rest of japan's “chain stores” chanel, marc jacobs, louis vitton etc. On weekends and public holidays you're lucky to move at a snails pace up Omotesando Dori and the laneways that run off it.
We lunched at Yoshinomoto Nara's cafe A to Z in Aoyama. Featuring a cubby house in the middle, this cute cafe houses drawings, paintings and other bits of Nara's work, plus a tiny gifto-shoppo.
The Y1000 lunch set was a delicious bargain.
Other notable mentions in this neighbourhood include the four story 100 yen store where we picked up many treats as well as socks and undies to make up for Hotel Excellent's complete lack of laundry facilities/services. (Sorry, no pics available of cheap undies.)
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