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Tower Records NORTHERN TOKYO
A popular haunt for music
lovers, Tower Records has
a good stock of Japanese
and international music WESTERN CENTRAL
CDs at reasonable prices. TOKYO TOKYO

Yoyogi Park and
Olympic stadiums Locator Map
See Tokyo Street Finder Map 1
Harajuku

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The Humax Pavilion
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Building is one of the more
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fanciful buildings in the area,
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resembling a cartoon rocket.
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It houses the Disney Store.
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Marui Jam department store is
a paradise for clothes – the place
for fashionable under 25s.

K O E N – D O R I

Statue of Hachiko
A favorite meeting place, this 1934 statue depicts the
C E N T E R G A I
dog who waited for his master at the station every night
for more than a decade after his death. Another popular
B U N K A M U R A – D O R I
meeting point nearby is the Statue of Moyai.
Pachinko
One of Tokyo’s most popular forms of
recrea tion, pachinko is similar to pinball,
but without the flippers and requiring
little skill. Players buy some steel balls to
feed into the pachinko machine, win ning
Shibuya more steel balls; these are traded in for
Station a prize (gambling for money is illegal).
The prize in turn can be ex changed for
money, usually in a small shop nearby.
Shibuya and Shinjuku have hundreds of
Key pachinko parlors.
Suggested walk route 0 meters 100 A typical pachinko machine
Train line 0 yards 100
For keys to symbols see back flap

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