Naka-Meguro, Saturday Onibus stand

Onibus Yagumo opens 07:00. The morning queue holds three.

Heim-Anker first day. Walk-corridor along the Meguro-Gawa is six minutes from the atelier door. Cherry corridor is full green now, late-May warmth.

The bench-side seat by the side-window had a Naka-Meguro stand-stand: thirties, architect-coded, a soft-charcoal cardigan, an open Aldo Rossi monograph at the right thumb. He ordered a single-origin Brazilian and stayed forty minutes.

Behind him, a quieter cluster: a woman in a Margiela-Tabi-loafer and a pair of Mikimoto pearl studs, reading what looked like a Kawakami Mieko paperback. She stayed twenty.

Outside the window the Aobadai-Print shutter was rolled up halfway. Tomo on the workbench, white T, ink-trace at the cuff. A walk-by nod. We exchanged five seconds.

Roppongi from twelve. Whitestone-Choi closing today.