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This purple clock tower stands in front of the NORTHERN
TOKYO
Shibuya Ward Office and is overlooked by
Yoyogi Park and the NHK Studios.
CENTRAL
The Humax Pavilion Building is one WESTERN TOKYO
Yoyogi Park and of the more fanciful buildings in the TOKYO
Olympic area, resembling a cartoon rocket. It
stadiums also houses the Disney Store.
Locator Map
See Tokyo Street Finder Map 1
Harajuku

K

OEN–DORI

Tower Records has a good stock of Japanese
and international music at prices among the
best in Tokyo.

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
Since 1934 this popular
meeting place has had
a statue of a dog who
waited for his master at
the station every night for
more than a decade after
C E N T E R G A I
his death. Another meeting
point nearby is the Statue
B U N K A M U R A – D O R I
of Moyai.
Pachinko
Japan’s most popular form 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
more steel balls; these are traded in for
Shibuya a prize (gambling for money is illegal).
station The prize in turn can be ex changed for
money, usually in a small shop nearby.
Shibuya and Shinjuku have hundreds of
pachinko parlors, but they are found all
Key over Japan.
0 meters 100
Suggested walk route A typical pachinko machine
0 yards 100
Train line

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