Shinjuku

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One of the most popular and lively districts of Tokyo is Shinjuku . Once a small town near a post station, today in the daytime Shinjuku is teeming with black suits of disciplined office workers, and in the evening burns with billions of lights, eyes at idle vacationers . To list all the attractions of the area can be long, this place is truly unique . What is just the fact that here are the highest skyscrapers of Japan, and the local station "skips" a day passengers much more than any other railway junction in the world .

In the old times, in the long-pasted Edo era (1600-1868 gg .), Shinjuku, who in the future was destined to become the highest district of Tokyo, was a small town attached to a post station on the Kosu-Kaido tract that was heading west toward Kofu . But in 1923 an earthquake in Tokyo caused massive destruction . However, for Shinjuku's history this sad event played very important and, it can even be said, a positive role . The district has become to build at an accelerated pace, and soon, namely, in 1925, ., a new railway station building is being erected here .

By the way, nowadays Shinjuku station is the busiest railway station in the world with a capacity of about 3, 5 million people a day. Not surprisingly, the whole life of the district is still concentrated around the railway, and the station itself is his "heart".

As soon as there is always a lot of people around here, snack bars, shops, cafes, restaurants and other places of mass leisure begin to grow in the vicinity. . Soon the owners of large retail chains, feeling the high potential of the district, begin to open shopping centers . First risk- and not lost, becomes the owner of supermarkets Mitsukoshi, who opened a shop here in the mid-1920s . This event gave impetus to the further construction and development of the district . As mushrooms after the rain on the streets of Shinjuku grow luxurious "Sochi", "Cayo", "Lumine", "Mysiti", "Takashimaia" .

Soon Shinjuku becomes one of the most important administrative and commercial centers of Tokyo.

In the 1960s, x in the vicinity of the railway station of Shinjuku, the first Japanese skyscrapers are being built, and the district itself is still considered to be the highest in Tokyo.

In the 1960s, the first Japanese skyscrapers began to be built in the vicinity of the railway station, and the district itself is still considered to be the highest in Tokyo. Attraction of attention is the building of the city administration, which is considered one of the main symbols of the capital. It's worth to climb to its top, to a specially arranged viewing platform.

The view that opens up from a height of 205 m is simply inimitable - these are magnificent panoramas of a historic and, at the same time, modern, vibrant city. As a cherry on the cake, if you are lucky and will be fine weather, you can see the snow-covered peak of the sacred Mount Fuji.

Other skyscrapers of the district are also interesting, for example, the 52-story giant "Shinjuku Park Tower". It is worth to visit the beloved Bohemian "Golden Street" or, for example, in the red light district of Kabuki-cho or in the Geisha area.

Address: Shinjuku, Tokyo Metropolis.

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Shinjuku, Panorama

View of Shinjuku night

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