Tokyo- mostly about the food

We arrived in Tokyo at stupid o'clock and spent a few painful hours wandering around in the rain waiting for our room to be ready. We are staying at the Granbell in Shibuya, which according to the guidebooks is teenager Mecca and the home of the famous Shibuya crossing. At 10.30 on a Monday morning it was positively prosaic.

We read about Good izakaya near the hotel. After walking around the block and consulting numerous maps we found it directly across the road and up a few doors. The Japanese quirk of numbering buildings in the order they were built rather than their location to each other provides a significant and ever present challenge. The izakaya, or neighbourhood bar, was loads of fun, lots of shouting and meat on a stick being cooked on a huge grill.