Shibuya - Tokyo realm of youth
Kanda, Ginza, Asakusa, Yosivara ... The names of these areas can easily find on the maps have become museum pieces Edo. In vain would look even at relatively advanced plans for areas such as Shibuya and Shinjuku, which today successfully compete with the legendary Ginza for the right to be called the center of the Japanese capital. Lying to the west and northwest of the Imperial Palace and its surrounding historic districts, Shibuya and Shinjuku are due to the rapid expansion of the flowering of the capital in these areas, which began at the end of the last century, as well as the construction of urban railway, outlining his ring boundaries of the new Tokyo in 1885. After becoming the nodal stations in the 30-kilometer circumference Bahn, Shibuya and Shinjuku quickly turned into a major transportation center associated with the western suburbs of Tokyo. Branched off from them and continue to branch out all the new railway lines, subway routes.
Stations of modern Japan, at least in one respect reminiscent of the famous temples of ancient Japan, they very quickly become overgrown shopping streets, neighborhoods entertainment. On the way home from work, preparing for a rather long and tiring trip, people who are trapped in a department store, who at the cinema or drinking establishment. Owners of trendy shops, expensive couture and cheap eateries, the owners of high-rise shopping centers and tiny "hotels love" with pleasure make their services available to travelers.
Particularly known for the giant corporation "Tokyu", which owns the railway, a network of department stores, construction companies and other enterprises. Silver cars "Tokyu" daily brought from the neighboring cities of Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki hundreds of thousands of passengers directly into the multistory building department of the same company. The orange train goes to the Ginza and Asakusa lines further to the subway, green the urban railway ring also provide "Tokyu" countless customers. The building is constructed so that the approaches to the platform and exits to the city lie side by side with commercial facilities. It is not difficult to understand what caused such a neighborhood. |