Jean-Paul Hévin: Princess Chocolat,

Went to Isetan intending to get something different, but ended noticing something new at Jean-Paul Hévin, Princess Chocolat. It's there through the end of October to celebrate 15 years (at Isetan, maybe; I'm not sure).

For running, I worked on my neighborhood routes, having revamped the one bound by West Gaien Road and Gyoen Park, and the one bounded by JR Chuo Line, Shinjuku Road, and the East and West Gaien Roads, having redrawn the latter part to work my way from southwest to northeast so that I can do the neighborhood including Wakaba next, which has lots of shrines, temples, and churches, as well as parks and one cake location of note, but on a dead-end alley, so I'm not sure how I'm going to handle that. I checked out a few points of interest in the latter area, but mostly went directly to Midtown Tokyo to make sure that the JPH there did not have some different special cake (because I'm not actually sure what it's the 15th anniversary of, but I'll be back at Isetan again tomorrow for what I skipped today, so I'll read more carefully); they did not. The neighborhood part was only about 3.4 km and the total was 10 km. Even with pedestrian stairs (along West Gaien Road) and some congestion around stations and Tokyo Midtown, I was around 10 km/h for every section.

The cake is almost all (besides that chocolate outside and a little butter cream sandwiched in the middle) like the base of their mont-blancs, which is an important part: a light almond meringue. It was excellent, but sort of like eating a big meringue cookie, so the design is somewhat limited as cake.