Tokyo Brick Square

The weather is now perfect and we are getting out and about on the bike at every opportunity. Yesterday we were out in Tokyo central, visiting the Imperial Palace grounds and came across this lovely new little area which had opened on Thursday. Brick Square which is squeezed in behind new buildings and unusually, some old and features a museum of architecture, a gorgeous florist, a couple of restaurants, mostly Italian, with open ovens and delicious looking pizzas for which I was drooling. The area is also incredibly green, with plantage and art installations everywhere - up walls, on balconies and a Henry Moore sculpture is sitting in a rose garden. There are also some great looking shops, all with queues to enter, probably because it was the first weekend, but I'm definitely going back to check out the recycled shop, 'Pass the Batton' which featured a range of french horses and china. Next door, with a much bigger queue, was a cheese and butter shop. There were some really interesting clothing shops closeby too. Look at the amazing staircase in the 'Land of Tomorrow' store.