Kanda Onnazaka and a Public Telephone · A Chainsaw Man Photo Walk
A photo walk linking the Onnazaka steps between Ochanomizu and Sarugakucho with a public telephone in Jimbocho. The traveler’s associations with Chainsaw Man are distinguished from any official recognition of locations as models.
At a glance
- Onnazaka
- Kanda-Sarugakucho 2-chome, Chiyoda
- Access
- About 5 minutes on foot from Ochanomizu-bashi Exit or Suidobashi East Exit
- Steps
- 82 steps · intermediate landings
- Public telephone
- Location recorded in 2025: around Kanda-Jimbocho 1-44-11
- Further information
- Chiyoda City Tourism Association · Onnazaka ↗
Checked · 2026.10.27
Kanda Onnazaka and a Public Telephone · A Chainsaw Man Photo Walk
A photo walk linking the Onnazaka steps between Ochanomizu and Sarugakucho with a public telephone in Jimbocho. The traveler’s associations with Chainsaw Man are distinguished from any official recognition of locations as models.
Finding Onnazaka
Onnazaka (女坂), literally “women’s slope,” is a stairway joining Surugadai and Sarugakucho across a difference in elevation. Do not confuse it with Otokozaka (男坂, “men’s slope”) to the east. According to Chiyoda City’s guide, both stairways were built during land readjustment in 1924, and Onnazaka has 82 steps.
Steps and an alternative route
Although there are landings, this is a route up and down stairs, unsuitable for wheeled suitcases or strollers. If the steps are not your destination, use the surrounding roads to continue toward Jimbocho. In wet weather, prioritize safe footing over photographs.
A public phone is everyday infrastructure
The 2025 visit records a public telephone near Jimbocho 1-44-11. Phones may be replaced or removed, so this is not a tourist facility guaranteed to remain in the same form. Stop photographing if someone needs to make a call, and do not wait in the roadway because vehicles or pedestrians enter your frame.
Associating a story with a place
In November 2025, the walk followed a companion’s explanations and recalled scenes from Chainsaw Man. This is not a claim that the production company or local authority officially certified these two locations as background models. Even if flowers or objects are present, leaving new items on public steps is not recommended as a visiting custom.
A suggested sequence
One route runs from Ochanomizu Station to Onnazaka, the Sarugakucho lanes, the recorded Jimbocho telephone location and finally the Jimbocho book streets. On residential roads around schools and homes, avoid loud conversations or obstructing entrances, and keep photo stops brief.
Take a look around
Photographed in November 2025The story behind this place
After Miyu’s birthday,
a quieter few days in Tokyo
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