Small sunken shopping plaza in front of the Ochanomizubashi exit of JR Ochanomizu Station: it lies below street level but is open to the sky. The 池田坂 that runs beside it takes its name from the residence of Ikeda Ichinojō, which in the Genroku era stood at the top of the slope, where the Nihon University hospital is today; because of the fighting dogs kept there it was also called 唐犬坂.
ℹ️ Public passageway, always accessible; the shops keep their own hours.
🚉 Ochanomizu · 4 min walk
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The three first-years stop here to wonder why Eri backed Nozomi's proposal to write a love song. Going up the 御茶ノ水仲通り towards the west gate of Nikolai Cathedral, 130 m away, is the 池田坂: it is the slope that, in the ninth episode of the second season, ‘心のメロディー’, Honoka's friends clear of snow, shouting at her to run, while she heads down towards the preliminaries.
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