Initial D Manhole Cover 2, Ikaho Municipal Car Park

Initial D Manhole Cover 2 is set in the footpath in front of Yachiyobashi Car Park, the municipal car park marked P6 on the way into Ikaho Onsen in Shibukawa, Gunma. It is one of seven official Initial D manhole covers Shibukawa City has placed around town, and the first of five in Ikaho Onsen.

Ai Yokoyama, animation director of the New Initial D film series, drew all seven covers in full colour. Cover 2 shows Takumi Fujiwara outside the Fujiwara Tofu Shop, his family's shop and home in the story, with his father Bunta in the picture as well.

Ikaho Onsen is the hot spring town on the slopes of Mount Haruna, the mountain the series calls Akina. Its 365 stone steps climb from the square at the bottom of town to Ikaho Shrine at the top, lined with shops and inns.

• The cover shows Takumi in front of the Fujiwara Tofu Shop. Bunta is in the picture too, which is easy to miss at first look.

• The tofu shop is where the story starts: Takumi helps out by delivering his parents' tofu in the Hachiroku, and those runs over the mountain are how he learns to drive.

• It sits in the footpath rather than the car park, and it is easy to walk past.

• The cover is on the footpath in front of Yachiyobashi Car Park (P6), 116-1 Ikaho, Ikaho-machi, not inside the car park.

• Yachiyobashi Car Park is open 24 hours with 39 spaces, ¥500 for the first 2 hours and ¥100 for each hour after. The city lists it as a 4 minute walk to the stone steps and the largest machine run municipal car park in Ikaho, and asks drivers to keep stays to about 2 to 3 hours.

• Buses run from JR Shibukawa Station up to Ikaho Onsen, and covers 2 to 6 are all in and around the town.

• The free Initial D manhole card is not handed out here. It is given out one per person at Shibusan in Shibukawa Ekimae Plaza, in front of JR Shibukawa Station, 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM every day except New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

Last verified: 3 November 2026

Official link: https://initiald-shibukawa.com/eg/manhole.html