Shibuya Koen-dori Walk, Japan Japan

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I took a walk up koen-dori today and took these pictures while I was out.

The view looking up Koen-dori. Surprisingly not many people out today. — The view looking up Koen dori Surprisingly not many people out today

Docomo building at bottom of Koen-dori with Horikita Maki on her docomo phone. — Docomo building at bottom of Koen dori with Horikita Maki on her docomo phone

Walking further up Koen-dori I went past the usual suspects of stores:

Seibu department store - koen dori — Seibu department store koen dori

Parco department store - Koen dori — Parco department store Koen dori

and then had a look back down the street from half-way:

Looking back down Koen-dori from Paro department store — Looking back down Koen dori from Parco department store

took in some of the lesser known interesting places:

Three Minutes Happiness - Amusement Variety Store, Koen dori — Three Minutes Happiness Amusement Variety Store Koen dori

Is 3 minutes the most they could really squeeze out of the moment? Sounds a bit short.

Tokyo Wonder Site cafe - Koen dori — Tokyo Wonder Site cafe Koen dori

Coffe & Donut, Koen dori — Coffe Donut Koen dori

before getting to the top of Koen dori where the Shibuya kuyakusho and NHK is located

Shibuya kuyakusho - top of Koen dori — Shibuya kuyakusho top of Koen dori

NHK Hall - top of Koen dori — NHK building top of Koen dori

On the way back down I bumped into the Tobacco & Salt Museum

Tobacco & Salt Museum, Koen dori — Tobacco Salt Museum Koen dori

As well as all the stores there are plenty of other sites to see on Koen dori such as the English style telephone boxes:

and I came across these flowers that are displayed by the Koen dori society which can be found at www.koen-dori.com. The website is in Japanese only, but it has a really good look and feel to it, explaining all about the stores, brands, news etc. For a community website it is quite impressive. I guess the department stores must have chipped in quite a bit to get this working.

They also have a live webcams set up and the location of these is shown on the website.

For English readers, Korean and Chinese versions available also, they have a pdf document that shows all the stores. This can be seen and downloaded from http://www.koen-dori.com/guidebook/ although the file is 2.7MB

There really was not a lot of people out today, maybe because it had turned cold recently, but it was nice to get out and see Koen dori without being caught up in the masses.