This is where I’ve lived for more than 25 years. It’s located next to Shinjuku in Tokyo. You may think that Shinjuku is a noisy city, so Yoyogi must be noisy too. However it’s not. My friends call an “urban countryside”. Famous things are “Meiji Shrine” and “prep schools”.
Meiji Shrine was erected in 1920 for the Meiji Emperor. Japanese have a custom to visit shrines in the beginning of year especially Meiji Shrine. Every year around 3 million poeple visit for their ambitions and prayers.
Yoyogi is also called “students’ quarter”, because there is the largest prep school, which turns out many Tokyo University Students, and vocational schools. If you come here during daytime, you can see students everywhere.
I think these 2 factors are well known to Japanese, but a rest is not known. Yoyogi was famous for “jazz music” more than 20 years ago. At the moments people, who loved jazz, get together here and hung out on weekend. Now I see a few jazz bar around the station. You can hear cozy music on weekend still now. “NARU” is the most popular jazz bar in Yoyogi. If you have a time to spend one night here, why don’t you visit the bar?
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