Did you know that you can walk out of a station and within five minutes walk from Shinjuku-ku through one ku and into a third?
I’m not going to tell you which station or which ku. Can you figure it out?
It has now been 13 years that I left (and only 2 short visits in the meantime), but my guess would be either Yotsuya (+Chiyoda-ku and Minato-ku) or Shinanomachi (+Minato-ku and Shibuya-ku). Difficult to remember which one would allow all 3 in 5 minutes, though. But then I did not know the northern part of Shinjuku at all.
Posted by: Michael on December 4, 2005 03:11 AMlooks like you could get off at the Nishi Shinjuku Go Chome station on the OhEdo subway line, walk through a little point of Shibuya Ku and then head north into Nakano Ku.
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Posted by: mike on December 5, 2005 01:26 AMYotsuya looks similarly near the point where Shinjuku Ku, Minato Ku, and Chiyoda Ku meet. It’s hard to tell exactly which of the three stations there is in which Ku.
I’m looking at www.mapion.co.jp to try and figure these out.
Posted by: mike again on December 5, 2005 01:32 AMYotsuya looks similarly near the point where Shinjuku Ku, Minato Ku, and Chiyoda Ku meet. It’s hard to tell exactly which of the three stations there is in which Ku.
I’m looking at www.mapion.co.jp to try and figure these out.
Posted by: mike again on December 5, 2005 01:33 AMMy guess is Iidabashi: Chiyoda-ku and Bunkyo-ku (especially from the Yarakucho line?). If I’m right, credit my 16-year old bilingual atlas (Kodansha)…I lived by that thing!
Posted by: Rebecca on December 5, 2005 10:16 AMThe “correct” answer, that it, the one I had in mind, is Mike’s first one: Nishi-shinjuku-go-chome through Shibuya-ku to Nakano-ku.
However there are definitely multiple “3-ku 5 minutes” solutions throughout the city. Those irregular ku borders are lots of fun! I will take some walks around Yotsuya, Shinanomachi and Iidabashi and tell you if they fit your solutions!
I did the three ku walk this morning!! Tee hee…
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Posted by: T on December 5, 2005 03:04 PMmy first was yotsuya, as i often travel there for work and have noticed the shinjuku, chiyoda, minato ku trumvariate.
but what about waseda eki? shinjuku, toshima, and bunkyo ku. seen that too.
is there somewher a four? even if you extend it out ten minutes walking? fifteen?
