Ki-no-kuni-zaka
This slope appears in "Mujina"(from "Kwaidan") as the place where Mujina lived.
Today there is a highway, so you can hardly imagine if there was a ghost like that.
As Hearn wrote, Ki-no-kuni-zaka means "The Slope of the Province of Kii". Although he did not know, the slope is called as such because there had been the residence of the Lord of the Kii Province just beside the slope.
Hearn wrote:
On one side of this slope you see an ancient moat, deep and very wide, with high green banks rising up to some place of gardens; and on the other side of the road extend the long and lofty walls of an imperial palace.
The interesting thing is, despite a hundred years have passed and there runs so many motor cars today, the place is not so different from what he wrote.
Access from Tokyo Station
Use Marunouchi Subway Line to go to Akasaka-Mitsuké station.
At Akasaka-Mitsuké, go up the exit Nos. 7 or 8. And you can find the moat just in front. The slope beside the moat is Ki-no-kuni-zaka.
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