Tokyo: Minamiaoyama
Our apartment is in the Minamiaoyama area of Tokyo. The area is upscale with lots of restaurants 
and clothing stores. The main street on the edge of the district is high-rise--these pictures are from the Omotesando Metro Station 
--but the other streets are fairly low-rise for this close in to the center of Tokyo. 
The area has a cheerfully unkempt air, because of the lack of regular sidewalks, the telephone poles which compete with other uses on the narrow streets, and the general crowdedness. Add in the careful and extensive gardening, and the place has a bit of a California feel to me. 
This is the apartment complex where we lived. 
The pictures can't do justice to one of the best features--the smell of the garden. The first couple of weeks it was privet 
and the rest of the month it was gardenias. 
(The bumpy yellow pathways are tactile paving for blind people--they are everywhere in Japan, particularly in train and subway stations.)