Posted October 10, 201014 yr tokyo: a walk around shinjuku’s colorful and lively east side http://wikitravel.org/en/Tokyo/Shinjuku shinkjuku station is the busiest transit station in the world - 3.64M passengers per day (!) in 2007 *** smoky, mysterious, atmospheric and fun -- omoide yokocho alley http://www.tune-in-tokyo.com/2009/02/memorylane/ yasukuni dori tokyo fire dept http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Fire_Department isetan department store on the right http://www.virtualjapan.com/wiki/Isetan kabukicho redlight district - which is actually err, pimped as a normal tourist sight in tokyo! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabukich%C5%8D,_Tokyo changes coming? http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/last-call-for-kabukicho-red-light-district the golden gai -- a rare example of a post-war tokyo neighborhood -- may it outlast redevelopment 4ever! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjuku_Golden_Gai the little bars of the golden gai golden gai alleyways meeooow! *** safe and more than interesting -- as u can imagine shinjuku’s eastside really comes alive at night! ***
October 11, 201014 yr Love love love it. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 11, 201014 yr Looking at a lot of these pictures, the architecture itself isn't anything to write home about. However, they've plastered the exteriors of all these buildings with colorful advertisements which seems to give Tokyo its distinctive flavor.
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