Friday: D'une Rareté, Cube-C

Just as a public service, I'll say that D'une Rareté's Cube-C is only what it looks like, a tiny cube of chocolate bread, and is 207 yen. I can't see that it offers much to justify itself, but as bread, it's fine, if expensive for the size (maybe 5 cm across?).

(Thursday) Rest with Le Petit Mec

After running four days in a row, and with the typhoon making heavy-rain warnings, I didn't run Thursday or Friday. Thursday I made curry, so I bought this "rustic" baguette, one of several types they have, from Le Petit Mec on the first floor of Marui department store at Shinjuku Sanchome (across from Isetan). I'll put it on the map. I have not searched around, but this is the best place I now for baguettes.

Can't find Neues: 14 km

The weather was okay, so I did run (sorry, Google Maps is unreliable and the map disappeared), a lot, but no cake. I went along the usual history and cultural routes, which go by some of the Soka Gakkai buildings, who are an active Buddhist movement, and so kind of cult-like compared to the usual passive sort.They have a lot of money and political power, and like to get together on Sunday mornings, apparently, judging from what I've seen around there then. This Yotsu area has a lot related buildings, for example, for education and publishing.

I went off the usual route to add a new down slope 

and then a new up slope to my route.

As usual, I got a little lost and went out of my way, although it does not look too bad on the map. Neues was closed (but they were in their cleaning up) again, so I can't count on them for late cake. Maybe by 8 pm works (today was about 8:30), but I usually want more running than that on a weekday now. Not that I had planned to get cake; I had just wanted to find out the name of last week's cake and maybe buy some bread. Instead, I went down to Tokyo Midtown to Asanoya, which puts their bread 20% off late. I didn't choose well though, or I should not have tried microwaving for 30 s to heat it up. Maybe I'll have better luck next time.