Originally Posted by rjh
I'm hoping you get an authoritative response, but, since the question is a really interesting one, I fired up Google Earth to check this out. (I seem to remember walking from East to West late, but not really, really late.) I assume you mean walking, since taxi would be the brute force approach.
It looks from the overhead imagery, however, as if the Ikebukuro-Ōhashi highway bridge, about 350m to the north of the station, doesn't accommodate pedestrians unless they're shaped like cars. Same for the southern bridge, even farther away by Mejiro station, on Mejiro Dori. You might be stuck taking a taxi.
Here's the reference for the Ikebukuro station:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthrea...ge&Number=3598
Wow...it never would have occurred to me to fire up that program to see ^ . And if i'm looking at that same bridge that you described it kind of looks like there is a pedestrian walkway on the south side of it. But barring any firsthand experience from someone else, I'll just have to see for myself when I get there
I'll make sure to report back if no one can confirm this or offer a shorter route like
Originally Posted by acregal
I'm pretty sure there is a way to walk through by a far end of the train station
....I'm not going to even bother with that one south of the station b/c that looks just too far