After an afternoon of sightseeing at Meiji Shrine, we walked to nearby Harajuku in search of coffee.
Omotesando coffee was ranked THE number one coffee shop in the area and the #4 place to eat (which was weird because there’s hardly any food available). Known as the “perfect cup of coffee” (which is high praise in Japan) we were too curious not to try.
Behind the controversial Tadao Ando- designed Omotesando Hills shopping center, through a residential neighborhood, and across the street from an empty lot with tall, overgrown grass, stood a tiny traditional Japanese-home-turned-coffee shop. The little coffee shop, hidden within an adorably quaint secret garden of sorts, would have remained completely unseen had we not noticed the line of people emerging from the garden and coffee drinkers leaning against the fence of the abandoned lot.
where’s waldo?