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Harajuku is the common name given to a geographic area spreading from Harajuku Station to Omotesando, corresponding on official maps of Shibuya ward as Jingūmae 1 chōme to 4 chōme. In popular reference, Harajuku also encompasses many smaller backstreets such as Takeshita Street and Cat Street spreading from Sendagaya in the north to Shibuya ...
Harajuku Station (原宿駅, Harajuku-eki) is a railway station in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The station takes its name from the area on its eastern side, Harajuku .
Shibuya is famous for its scramble crossing, called Shibuya Crossing. [17] It is located in front of the Shibuya Station Hachikō exit and stops vehicles in all directions to allow pedestrians to inundate the entire intersection. Shibuya Crossing is the "world's busiest pedestrian crossing", with upwards of 3,000 people at a time.
The Harajuku area is known internationally as a center of Japanese youth culture and fashion. [3] Jingu Bridge has become one of the locality's popular landmarks. Since the 1960s, it has attracted numerous cosplayers, performers, people dressed in visual kei, lolita fashion (sometimes in gothic variations), or similar outfits, and tourists. [4 ...
Yoyogi Park (代々木公園, Yoyogi kōen) is a park in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.It is located adjacent to Harajuku Station and Meiji Shrine in Yoyogikamizonochō.The park is a popular Tokyo destination, especially on Sundays when it is used as a gathering place for Japanese rock music fans, jugglers, comedians, martial arts clubs, cosplayers and other subculture and hobby groups. [1]
Three major areas started in the early shogunate: Harajuku, Marunouchi, and Shinjuku. Harajuku was an area for residencies of samurai retainers set up near a new protective garrison on the western road to town. [47] [48] It was irrigated with a waterwheel from the Sumida, but the land was not very rewarding for farmers, who became impoverished.
Anime conventions have a long and varied worldwide history. The original Comiket , mostly based on fan published manga called dōjinshi , started in 1975 with around 700 people in Tokyo . [ 1 ] In recent years, Comiket has attracted over a half million people.
The Tokyo National Museum (東京国立博物館, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan) or TNM is an art museum in Ueno Park in the Taitō ward of Tokyo, Japan.It is one of the four museums [a] operated by the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage [], is considered the oldest national museum and the largest art museum in Japan.