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A new station building was to be built by JR East at the station's Meiji-Jingu entrance. A temporary platform used during busy periods will become the permanent platform for trains heading north through the station. [7] [8] [9] The new station building and platform opened on 21 March 2020, in time for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
Harajuku Station on the Yamanote Line is immediately adjacent to Meiji-jingumae Station and is marked as an interchange on most route maps. Due to this proximity and to encourage use of the station by visitors, Tokyo Metro changed station signboards to read "Meiji-jingumae 'Harajuku' Station" ( 明治神宮前〈原宿〉駅 ) on 6 March 2010.
The Harajuku area is known internationally as a center of Japanese youth culture and fashion. [3] Jingu Bridge has become one of the locality's popular landmarks. Since the 1960s, it has attracted numerous cosplayers , performers, people dressed in visual kei , lolita fashion (sometimes in gothic variations), or similar outfits, and tourists.
Harajuku is the common name given to a geographic area spreading from Harajuku Station to Omotesando, corresponding on official maps of Shibuya ward as Jingūmae 1 chōme to 4 chōme. In popular reference, Harajuku also encompasses many smaller backstreets such as Takeshita Street and Cat Street spreading from Sendagaya in the north to Shibuya ...
Yoyogi Park (代々木公園, Yoyogi kōen) is a park in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.It is located adjacent to Harajuku Station and Meiji Shrine in Yoyogikamizonochō.The park is a popular Tokyo destination, especially on Sundays when it is used as a gathering place for Japanese rock music fans, jugglers, comedians, martial arts clubs, cosplayers and other subculture and hobby groups. [1]
Service to the Senkawa and Kanamechō stations, which had been bypassed by the Yūrakuchō New Line, also started on the same day. Technical problems resulted in delays of up to 30 minutes during the Fukutoshin Line's first few days of operation. [13] On 6 March 2010, express services began stopping at Meiji-Jingūmae on weekends and holidays. [14]
Fruits (stylized as FRUiTS) was a Japanese monthly street fashion magazine founded in 1997 by photographer Shoichi Aoki. Though Fruits covered styles found throughout Tokyo , it is associated most closely with the fashion subcultures found in Tokyo's Harajuku district .
Naka-Itabashi Station is served by the Tobu Tojo Line from Ikebukuro in Tokyo. Located between Ōyama and Tokiwadai, it is 4.0 km from the Ikebukuro terminus. [1] Only "Local" (all-stations) services stop at this station, with eight trains per hour in each direction during the daytime.