Bagel & Bagel
Well, even in Tokyo you can get bagels. This is a good thing especially when you feel like having a slice of home. But as the way food goes here, you're in for a few surprises.
Wandering through Jinbochou looking for books, brought me across a Bagel & Bagel shop. Since it was nearly time for lunch (but lunch was still a few stops away), I felt the need to nosh. So in I went...
...the very first thing I saw was a very dark disk of dough - a pumpernickel on color steroids. It was actually a cocoa and white chocolate bagel. I got a bit of that "eeeuuuwww" vibe but was intrigued.
Looking around at the other neatly wrapped bagels, I discovered the "monthly bagel" which was called "matcha (green tea) and white chocolate harmony". Yes, it was green, and studded with pieces of white chocolate. Joining this one were espresso and cocoa, soymilk and edamame, pumpkin seed (yum!), and fig bagels. (And before you think that it's all loopy, there were the usual assortment of "standard" bagels: onion, plain, sesame, all-in-one and so on...)
I sprung for the cocoa and white chocolate bagel just on the "eating-should-be-an-adventure" principle. I also picked up a "volcano" bagel which looks a lot like an asiago cheese bagel. The bagels are a lot softer than usual but have a nice texture overall. The cocoa bagel was decent plain and not as sweet as I had anticipated. I threw half of it into the fridge just to keep it from going bad and found (the next day) that it tasted really good cold.
The volcano bagel gets eaten next but I haven't yet popped it into the toaster. Further research will commence soon...
Bagel & Bagel has a few shops in Tokyo, the one I went to is in Jinbochou near the A4 exit of the subway station. You can go here for a list of shops (with maps).