Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan
Ministry in the morning, followed by a lovely lunch that my friend Azusa (she has no Kanji in her first name, by the way, because she's named after a river, so just Hiragana... nice and easy to spell!) spoilt me with. We went to a restaurant whose name means "Young Bamboo," and I was greeted by the sound of running water.
The restaurant was SO cool! The tables were arranged so that they formed a large square around three pools that formed tiny waterfalls into ...