Saturday run around central Tokyo

Did a classic wandering route, more wandering than the map shows (I actually stopped to ask a cop, since I had no map, but not on any street shown there). Was more than 16 km, but it was difficult to jog parts of it because of pedestrian density, such as the east part, but I could do some even there. Was doing 1 min alternating intervals of slow fast for more than an hour of running, although it is all relative. No pack because of my back, and felt a little sick from the pain and from having had my eyes dilated at the eye doctor (no problems detected) which was not much returned to normal even after 3 hours, but at least it was darker outside then and I was running east to begin with, so I didn't wait any longer.

I got a cake from Patisserie Yamamuro first (actually, I got that right after the eye doctor, which is a couple doors down, but ran past there again when I went out running). This is a little neighborhood shop with fairly limited selection but no other competition in the Shinanomachi area. I got the Chocolat Pistachio for 480 yen, which is the chef's recommendation and probably the only thing I'm interested in there, although there is nothing wrong with the Pare (?) Chocolat and maybe other things, but not that exciting. This cake is standard chocolate over chocolate mousse with some pistachio mousse inside, but there is also a little berry (not sure whether it is raspberry or strawberry) compote or something, and the balance is good. Definitely one of the better of this standard cake that I've had.

Somehow, Seiyo Ginza got bookmarked, so I looked for it at Matsuya but failed to find it there. I thought about swinging by Hidemi Sugino, but decided I really wanted to go to somewhere new to me. I did stop at the Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi and there I found Seiyo Ginza (which their website says will close after Tuesday) and saw that there was a reason that I've never noticed them before (not a lot of cake, and not what I'm interested in), so that was taken care of. Next, instead I went to find Atelier Kohta, who are at Shinjuku Isetan now, I think, so their eat-in counter is closed. Very small shop really. Actually, it's in an alley, so I went past it and knew I had gone too far and went back and had to search again to find it. Only maybe six types of cakes, include standard items I never want like mont-blanc, opera, and (strawberry) short cake. I got the Classic Chocolat for 515 yen, which was great, although just layered chocolate cake with whipped cream. The only other cake of interest in the selection (which was sold out) was an opera pistachio, but that is something I'm particularly interested in so it's hard to forget about it. I have to go back or get over to Isetan before Wednesday and see if they have it. Their webpage doesn't actually list the pistachio and they list several others, so maybe there is a high rate of rotation. I've add them to the map, along with the Le Pommier, which basically across from them on a different side street, but it is also tiny and I've never really found anything thing there that was special, although it's okay, so they don't really make a cluster of interest, and Anniversary down the street is not much better (notice that I've finished adding all my "A" cake shops to the map).