On my way through Ikebukuro the other day I spotted this poster for an Ikebukuro ‘excavation card’:
I had a look around and found the same poster on this pillar:
“Curioser and curioser,” I said to myself. Just what is an excavation card?
Zoshigaya is the area I live in. It’s a residential area which the large city-looping Meiji Dori flanks on the western edge. To the north is Ikebukuro and to the south Takadanobaba. It has a shrine- Kishimojindo, and the very large and famous Zoshigaya Cemetary. Here are some photos:
On my block, in Zoshigaya:
