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tokyo: a walk around shinjuku’s colorful and lively east side

 

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http://wikitravel.org/en/Tokyo/Shinjuku

 

 

shinkjuku station is the busiest transit station in the world - 3.64M passengers per day (!) in 2007

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smoky, mysterious, atmospheric and fun -- omoide yokocho alley

http://www.tune-in-tokyo.com/2009/02/memorylane/

 

 

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yasukuni dori

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tokyo fire dept

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Fire_Department

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isetan department store on the right

http://www.virtualjapan.com/wiki/Isetan

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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

 

 

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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

 

 

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the little bars of the golden gai

 

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golden gai alleyways

 

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meeooow!

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*** safe and more than interesting -- as u can imagine shinjuku’s eastside really comes alive at night! ***

 

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

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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