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EXPERIENCE Western Tokyo Commuters on the platform

at Shinjuku, the busiest

EXPERIENCE MORE train station in the world

4 is the world’s busiest train the wide street running
station. A major stop on both
through it, is a renowned
Shinjuku Station the JR and metro politan center for boutiques.
新宿駅 subway systems, Shinjuku On Gaien-Nishi-dori, a
Station is also the starting fashionable street nicknamed
 B5  Shinjuku Stn, Toei point for trains and buses into “Killer-dori,” is the Watari-um,
Shinjuku, Hibiya & Toei
Oedo lines the suburbs. On the Yamanote also known as the Watari
and Chuo line platforms during Museum of Contem porary Art.
With over two million people the morning rush hour (about Exhibits are by inter national
passing through each day, this 7:30–9am) staff are employed and Japanese artists, and
to push those last few com- change regularly.
muters on to the train. Back on Aoyama-dori, turn
COMMUTER It’s easy to lose your way in left at the Omotesando junc-
CULTURE this maze of seemingly iden- tion for the Nezu Museum,
Commuters packed into tical passages between the which houses a collection of
trains are a common lines. For a time in the 1980s Japanese, Chinese, and Korean
sight in Tokyo. High and early 1990s, a substantial art and is situated in land-
house prices force peo­ number of home less people scaped gardens containing
ple farther out of the built card board villages in the traditional teahouses. A very
city, and a com mute of station’s corri dors. In a contro- different museum is found a
at least an hour is stan­ versial move, the municipal few blocks away. The Taro
dard. An entire indus­ government forcibly removed Okamoto Memorial Museum
try has come up around them; they settled in new houses the peculiar works
commuters, including places, including Ueno Park. of this post-war sculptor. The
stand­up eateries towering figures have crudely
serving meals to those realized faces and tapering
with a long ride ahead. plant-like tendrils.
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Minami-Aoyama
District
南青山地区 Did You Know?
 C8  Gaienmae Stn,
Ginza line Tokyo’s crows know
Favored by artists, writers, how to use tools and
and young entrepreneurs, this can recognize
bustling district lies between human faces.
the large Aoyama Cemetery
and Shibuya. Aoyama-dori,
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