Got up early and went running for about 3 hours, includes stops for pictures. I started by going to Jinnan, so I was pre-committing to a long run, since the goal was Ginza Mitsukoshi, in the opposite direction. I verified a few things that aren't on my neighborhood running map really shouldn't be there (one site was vacant and a shop with "bread" in the title was a sandwich place), and add a few photographs of things that should, mostly non-essential (there's a Tully's in the lobby of a building). I missed a shrine, so I'll have to go back and try again (I needed to look up), but I did fill in the Aobadai loop sites and fix the route, so that's ready when I get adding to the course in that direction.
At Mitsukoshi, I saw Jean Jean-Paul Hévin's Longchamp, so it really exists (they only had five out, compared to a dozen of most others), but I was there for Tonka. It was already past 11, so I didn't have to wait to go to Sadaharu Aoki's Saint-marc Praliné. These are both delicious cakes, but I wasn't feeling the greatness so much today (perhaps because I was tired). Still, I appreciate JPH's design and it was nice to have chocolate and tonka flavor again, so it's getting the win. I should have let the Saint-marc Praliné warm up more, as I don't think it was an optimal temperature. I'm marking this down as excellent this time, which is a way of putting it on notice as far as the great list, but since it's a one-year one-shop cake, I might not get another chance at it.
Other news is that they have the Tarte Fraise Citron for this and next month SA's main shop, but actually its the caramel salt tart that I'm on the look out this season, so that's actually a disappointment. There's still a chance that Isetan will get it.
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