Harajuku Tokyo is a significant fashion and shopping region, famous for its Harajuku Girls and Harajuku fashion. Once you exit the Harajuku station, you will see a sea of people in Takeshita-dori or Takeshita Street. Here you will find Harajuku’s teens buy clothes with cheap price, starting from 350 yen up to a few thousand yen. The main entrance is at the southern end of the station. A smaller entrance in the centre of the platform is convenient for Takeshita-dori, another famous area in Harajuku. Takeshita-dori is a popular shopping street and Takeshita-dori entrance is often very crowded, creating a bottleneck on weekends when scores of tourists and locals arrive and leave Harajuku generally and the shopping areas in and around Takeshita-dori specifically.
Harajuku is also called Japanese’s Bronx, because here you will not find “official style” like another place in the City, no waiters or salesclerk will greet you ‘irasainase’ (welcome) like in Ginza or Roponggi. If in Takeshita sells supplier goods, in Harajuku you will find independent stores (distro) that sell own design clothes, and even clothes and accessories a la India, Hindu/Buddhist, and Indian among shops that sell Barbie-girl/boy clothes shop.
Omotesando is broad, tree-lined avenue leading downhill from the southern end of the JR Harajuku station. This is the other side to Harajuku Fashion and its challenge to Shibuya and Ginza. Not only is the street full of cafes and international brand clothing boutiques, but now features the very up market Omotesando Hills. If Paris or Milan is the center of the world of fashion design, then Omotesando is the center of world fashion consumption.
Meiji Jingu or Meiji Shrine, built in commemoration of Emperor Meiji in 1920, is Tokyo’s grandest shrine. Like all of Japan’s major shrines, it’s large in scale but simple in structure, entered via a winding path and through a giant torii gate. On summer weekends you have a very good chance of catching a traditional Japanese wedding in progress here. But in the Japanese New Year, this shrine will be full of people from Shinto religion that pray for bless. They said the jungle that surround The Shrine were donated by the local residents, hundreds of trees planted there.
Entering the last gate, everyone must wash their hands and mouth-rinse on a very cold spring that has been provided, they take water with small scoop made of bamboo with long stick handle. When entering the temple, visitors must not step the highest step because it is prohibited. They trust that the highest stair is only for Gods.
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