Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sights
1
Shibuya Crossing
STREET
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Rumoured to be the world's busiest, this intersection in front of Shibuya Station is
known as the Scramble. It's a spectacle of giant video screens, neon and people
coming from all directions at once. Up to a thousand cross with every light change,
yet still manage to dodge each other with a practiced, nonchalant agility.
(
JR
Yamanote Line to Shibuya, Hachikō exit)
2
Hachikō Statue
MONUMENT
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Hachikō, an Akita dog, belonged to a professor who lived near Shibuya Station.
The professor died in 1925, but the dog continued to show up and wait at the sta-
tion for his master until his own death 10 years later. The story became legend and
a small statue was erected at the station plaza in the dog's memory.
( Hachikō Plaza;
JR Yamanote Line to Shibuya, Hachikō exit)
3
Center-gai
STREET
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This pedestrian street is Shibuya's main artery. It's lined with all the places local
teens and twenty-somethings love, including fast-food joints and fast-fashion
boutiques, and you'll see the neighbourhood's colourful, bleached-hair denizens
hanging out here day and night.
( Sentā-gai;
JR Yamanote Line to Shibuya, Hachikō exit)
4
Shibuya Hikarie
CULTURAL BUILDING
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This gleaming, 34-floor tower, completed in 2012, threatens to bring grown-up
sophistication to youthful Shibuya. The lower floors are filled with shops and res-
