The "castle" is more a ringed off garden area than anything else, with a small two-storey structure in one corner serving as the sole living quarters.
You find ramen counters on virtually every street corner, serving up nourishing, steaming hot bowls of wheat noodles in rich, meaty broth, invariably topped with slices of chashu pork, half a boiled egg and chewy strips of menma bamboo.
Mauresmo leads 7-6, 3-2* Davenport remains calm to see a well-timed forehand straight down the line and into the corner, serves an ace, then dinks the most delicate of drop shots of the net to leave Mauresmo chasing.
German bakeries on every corner serve their customers Brötchen and pumpernickel, the town's brewery makes beer to strict German standards and you can find more varieties of wurst than probably exist in Germany.
For example, Americans are not as tied to the centuries-old notion of eating a proper dinner at home partly because they know McDonald's is around the corner, serving burgers and fries, hot and fast.
There is always the promise of the next meal, the next new place, and, besides, the pleasures of eating privately in public tend to compensate for most culinary catastrophes that do not involve a trip to the emergency room after the latest hole-in-the-wall around the corner serves me last week's clams.
Activists have complained that, since the publicity about cyclist deaths back in November police officers engaged in the Met's "Operation Safeway" have been pouncing on errant cyclists who choose to take the safer route on the pavement this corner, serving them up with fixed penalty notices.
The coffee corner serves a mean chocolate brownie and is a good place to curl up with a book.
Buccan Sandwich Shop around the corner serves high-end sandwiches on house-made bread at totally approachable prices.
