Books, Gadgets, Shops, and Crowds: Shinjuku Has It All
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Shinjuku is one of the most busiest city in Japan. But if we discover, we may found that there are differences between Shinjuku west of the station and Shinjuku east of the station. Probably more like Berlin in the early days when the great walls separated the country. The west side called Nishi is full of skyscrapers and many other high rise buildings which looks immensely like big forest of steel from afar. Meanwhile, the east side of the station is the lively quarter, where the activity begin to rise at midnight.
For visitors, it's advisable that you shouldn't travel there on rush hour. It's the busiest station on the planet.Photographers addict and digital gadget can stumbled them self on Sakuraya, Bic Camera and Yodobashi Cameras.
Places to shop abound in this popular area. Sbove the Seibu train line Shinjuku station, a huge 100Yen shop can be found on the 7th floor of the department store . Booklovers and bookworms will love large collection of foreign language books at Kinokuniya store. Just head for Takashimaya department store, walk through Tokyu Hands and accross the above the street walkway from (possibly) level 5 of Tokyu Hands to Level 6 of Kinokuniya book store.
Kinokuniya has a fabulous selection of books on Japan, including english anime. Tokyu Hands offers an array of quirky products, you can even get your own Japanese name stamp made for you, taking only one hour and about 600Yen.
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