Around the Kotodai Koen subway station

 

 The Kotodai Koen subway station has an exit that allows you to directly enter two large department stores.

 In the basement there is a large food shopping area that is connected so you can shop at shops in both stores.

 There are escalators from the subway platform up to the street level. At another floor there there is a large bookstore. This is the point where you get off it you want to go out to the street.

 You walk straight ahead through the store and you come to the arcade, which is the main downtown shopping area. This is a drug store

 It was early in the morning on a rainy day so there were few people. Once the stores all open, this area is usually crowded with shoppers.

This store makes and sells Japanese style sweets, the kind that are served with green tea. On the second floor they have a restaurant that has very good fixed meals. The menu is not extensive but the food is really good and the servings are not huge like they are in some other inexpensive restaurants.l