The flowering of Shinjuku rightly associated with the construction of major transport hub. It is very important that this area only in 1920 included in the line of Tokyo, lies to the west of the center, in the main direction of expansion of the Japanese capital. Location Shinjuku so successfully that he was officially named the second center of the city and has a good chance to move into first place. In April, 1988 the construction of two new tower skyscraper to replace the current City Hall Tokyo, near the Imperial Palace. One of the towers of the building, created by the famous architect Carlo Tenge, will be the tallest building in Japan - 243 m. In three years the capital will move to City Hall in Shinjuku.
The transformation of Shinjuku in the new city center is not disadvantaged other 22 metropolitan areas, say "the city fathers." They refer to it with a unique "specialization", which is the lack of specialization, which is typical for most other areas. Shinjuku is so multifaceted and inexhaustible that it is possible to find almost all of those "settlements", which is composed of the traditional core of Tokyo. There is a resemblance to the streets of Ginza luxury restaurants and stores. There is a Sister Sanya - "breeding grounds" of vagrants, homeless. On the "electric kingdom" Akihabara district rival shops and stores that sell household appliances of different purposes. Since universities compete Kandy districts around one of the largest and most prestigious private universities - Waseda. A western exit of Shinjuku station, as the area in front of Shibuya station, has become a traditional venue for political rallies and demonstrations.
In Shinjuku a lot of people. But the most notable and famous are those that are turned to the west and east of the station shopping center. Human waves pouring out of the east exit of Shinjuku station quickly split into several streams. If you select the most powerful of them, then after five minutes' walk you will see an arch with the inscription: "Kabuki-cho". It would be vain to look at her lying quarter of the famous Japanese theater, but in the postwar years, its really going to move in Shinjuku with the old, bombed-out room cleaned between Ginza and the Tsukiji market. The theater eventually restored, where he was. A selection for a place in Shinjuku, Tokyo quickly built up institutions and dubious reputations. |