Nuts! Where's Almond?
Julie was with friends on a bus passing through Roppongi and saw from the window that the famed Almond coffee shop on the crossing was no more.
"How is this possible?" she asks. "My friends say it has been there forever."
Not forever; since 1946, which is why — this being Japan, where any building over half a century old is considered ancient — it is being rebuilt.