A jungle patch in Ochanomizu

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Originally uploaded by Lionel Dersot.

It was Indiana Jones in Ochanomizu albeit the danger and love scenes. The picture shown here may lack some spice for a Hollywood film. OK, skip the Holly but keep the Wood. For this tiny spot of green behind an open air parking at the foot of the hill of Ochanomizu is most probably part of an old remnant natural environment of the Sarugaraku district close to book town Jimbocho. Thanks to the steep declivity of the slope, no human construction can stand here. I had been intrigued by this patchy green trail that climbs from around here up to one of the Meiji university's many faculty buildings. This sunny day, I decided to have a detailed look at this tiny wood from many vistas along the path. I ended up climbing the steep slope that passes along the Hilltop Hotel's back and got at the closest in the back of Faculty building # 14 where the mountainous tiny wood ends up looking like some South-Asian kind of mysterious jungle entrance. Peeping deep into it, I could see some carved mossy stones that are without any doubt some unmarked remnants of a house, maybe a daimyo castle of the past. I want to stay with the impression that I am the only one to know those hidden stones. The Hill of Ochanomizu has immense tiny secrets for the adventurous flaneur to be discovered.