Our rental apartment is in Ikebukuro district, but we’ve barely seen any of it, apart from the routes to the two nearest metro stations.

We’ve got a trip planned outside of Tokyo for later today, but in the morning we walked around a bit in Ikebukuro.

Ingrid visited Animate, a 7-storey manga superstore. I tried my best to occupy myself while waiting for her, but it became very boring fast.

I browsed a bookstore. I was hoping that they might have something interesting in the knitting section. Japanese knitting books are quite different from Swedish ones. In Sweden, there are books like “Knit 20 sweaters” or “Knit for the home” or “Everything about socks and mittens”. Japanese knitting books were more based on vibes. “Here’s some cute stuff” – which could range from knitted sweaters to crochet flowers in the same book. If they want to knit a sweater, do they go through dozens of books to find a pattern?