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NHK Studiopark Harajuku
2007-05-07 19:14:00
NHK Studiopark, located in Shibuya, Hara juku , adjacent to Harajuku Station or JR Shibuya Station, is a part of NHK Broadcasting Center. It is close to Yoyogi Park and open to the public. NHK (Nippon Hosou Kyouka) means Japan Broadcasting Group or Corporation. It is a public TV of Japan just as The ABC in Australia and BBC in Great Britain.NHK Studiopark gives visitors a chance to look behind the scenes of television broadcasting for a small entrance fee, 200 Yen. By paying that admission, visitors can look the production of a live programs on most days such as the popular morning drama, the historical taiga drama, and the kids program "Okaasan To Issho". The visitors can also watch the nationwide live broadcast of the talk program "Studiopark Kara Konnichiwa" from behind the scenes on weekdays from around 1pm.NHK Studiopark hs attracted nearly a million visitors a year. Visitors are eager to visit this studiopark since it offers a tour of the recording studios where the visitors can...

Togo Shrine Harajuku
2007-05-07 19:12:00
Togo Shrine (???? Togo-jinja), located on Meiji Dori in Hara juku , near the intersection of Takeshita Street and Meiji Avenue. It is accessible from Harajuku Station, near Meiji-Jingumae, Tokyo. It was built in 1940. Togo shrine is an oasis of peace and harmony, right next to the crowded Takeshita-dori street.Togo Shrine is a memorial Shinto shrine dedicated to military commander Admiral Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934) shortly after his death. Togo Heihachiro campaigned commander in the defining 1905 victory against Russia at the Tsushima Straits. The Admiral defeated the Russian fleet in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.Togo supervised former Emperor Hirohito's education from 1914-1924. The shrine was established in 1940 but destroyed in the air bombings of 1945. Then the shrine was replaced by a contemporary building in 1969 and a memorial hall was added in the shrine. Togo Heihachiro is celebrated as a shinto kami in Togo Shrine. There is a small museum and a bookshop dedicated to Togo...
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Louis Vuitton Harajuku
2007-05-07 19:09:00
The Louis Vuitton store in Omotesando, Hara juku was opened in autumn 2002. This is The Louis Vuitton company's largest store in the world, also their luxury goods maker?s and one of the most beautiful store. The public store occupied five of the building's ten floors, which are designed as a stack of trunks rather than conventional floors.The success of Louis Vuitton, of course, is based on bags, and so along with shoes. The store located at 5-7-5 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku. Tel: 03-3478-2100. Open daily 11am-8pm. The nearest station of the store is Omotesando Station.

KiddyLand Harajuku
2007-05-07 19:06:00
KiddyLand, used to be called Tokyo's Capitol of Cute in Hara juku . It is one of Tokyo's most fun, famous and popular toy stores sightseeing spots in Tokyo. Located along the Omotesando - the georgous harajuku boulevard - KiddyLand consists of six floors filled with all kinds of huge selection toys from electronic games, character goods to stuffed animals.Many major toy brands and popular characters, including Disney, Barbie and Hello Kitty, Peanuts Gang, American Superhero are available here. In 2nd floor, you can find any Peanuts Item in Japan. Sometime, The shop use Peanuts for Season Campaign Character. For example was the Xmas campaign of 1996. Overall, KiddyLand is nirvana of toys, the must visited spot for the young and the young at heart. KiddyLand is located at 6-1-9 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku. If you want to go there, you can take JR "YAMANOTE-LINE", and take off "Harajuku". And exit "Omotesando-Guchi"(Entrance of Omotesando). Crossing road and you can see Drugstore in the corne...
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Oriental Bazaar Harajuku
2007-05-07 19:03:00
Oriental Bazaar is one of Tokyo's largest souvenir shops, most probably it is the most famous of souvenir shops. Oriental Bazaar is very popular among foreign travelers who look for typical Japanese souvenirs, such as kimono, tableware, lamps, dolls, furniture and samurai related goods.This store is located about halfway between Omotesando and Harajuku station on Omotesando Dori (5-9-13 Jingu-mae) near Togo Shrine in Harajuku. To find the Bazaar go to Omotesando station and walk down the main street towards Harajuku, the shop is on the right about halfway down the road. It is just down the street from Kiddyland. The Oriental Bazaar is set in a quieter section of bustling Harajuku.Oriental Bazaar is also the most imaginatively laid out. The bazaar has several different focuses, and the store is laid out accordingly. It is a four-stories store, and when you step to the higher floor you will get the more expensive items. The basement stocks bright, cheap and cheerful, touristy items, ...
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Laforet Harajuku
2007-05-07 19:02:00
Laforet Hara juku (Rafore Harajuku) is a department store and museum located in the Harajuku commercial and entertainment district of the Shibuya neighborhood, in Tokyo, Japan, on one of Harajuku's most famous intersections.Its museum is on sixth floor and HMV in the basement. Laforet Harajuku used to be called the teen fashion mecca. It is a trend setting shopping complex, consisting of seven floors of fashion boutiques and shops, mainly geared towards girls audience.Laforet Harajuku, a building packed with fashion boutiques, is a local landmark, while Ura Harajuku (Backstreet Harajuku), or "Urahara" for short, used to be a quiet residential area but became a hub for young designers in the 1990s. Most girls will enter this store, since it serves the ultimate trends in Japanese fashion. Be warned, as this place is really wacky and may not appeal to Western style clothing. Laforet is known for its big summer bargain sales in July and for striving to be on the cutting edge of fashion ...
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Daiso Harajuku
2007-05-07 18:59:00
Alongside the glamour boutiques and dining in Hara juku is the "Daiso Harajuku" otherwise known as the 100 yen Shop. Take a look of it from Takeshita dori, Harajuku?s busy pedestrian mall, Daiso looks like a big pharmacy, full of cosmetics and toiletries. But if you take a look around inside you?ll see that there are 3 more floors: a basement full of kitchenware, and a huge range of stationary, homewares and electrical accessories upstairs. Browsing through, it seems like a regular variety store, until you notice that everything is priced at just 105 yen.Daiso is a 100 Yen store right in the heart of Takeshita dori in Harajuku, located only a few steps from Harajuku Station along Takeshita Dori. It is only one minute walk from JR Harajuku Station (Takeshita-guchi Exit). While Japan's largest 100 Yen shop, Daiso Giga Machida, spans 5 floors in front of Machida Station (30 minutes, 360 Yen from Shinjuku by Odakyu Railways). Daiso Harajuku is one of the largest 100 Yen stores in centra...

Snoopy Town Harajuku
2007-05-07 18:57:00
This is a toy kiosk provided for Snoopy and the Peanuts Gang merchandise freak located directly across Hara juku Station. Snoopy and the Peanuts gang freak would absolutely fall in love with this toy kiosk at the first visit to this place. Snoopy Town sells all kinds of Snoopy and the Peanuts Gang stuff. This kiosk was opened on april 2nd, 1999.This Harajuku Snoopy Town kiosk is the third kiosk in Tokyo, and the fifth kiosk in all over Japan. The theme of the store is a shool bus stop, a yellow American shool bus is put inside the kiosk. The kiosk is a branch of the popular Snoopy Town kiosk within the Hep Five shopping complex in Umeda.If you want to go to this kiosk, you may take JR YAMANOTE-LINE, then take off at Harajuku station and exit by Omotesando-Guchi (Entrance of Omotesando). As soon as you exit the station, Snoopy Town kiosk is the first store your eyes would spot at. You would find the big Snoopy and his friends, you would never lose a way.The main idea of the kiosk is s...

Harajuku's Glance
2007-05-07 13:08:00
Harajuku, the common name for the area around Harajuku Station, between Shinjuku and Shibuya. Local landmarks include the headquarters of NHK, Meiji Shrine and Yoyogi Park.It is a wild and crazy place best seen on a Sunday or any other holiday for that matter. It is located just 1 station north of Shibuya and some consider it to be the extion of Shibuya. You may be suprised to find teen dressing up in cosplay, anime, or other gothic type costumes right out side the station or street performers acting out for a little extra money. The area known as "Ura-Hara" (back streets of Harajuku) is a center of Japanese fashion for younger people, with brands such as Bathing ape and Undercover having shops in the area. Harajuku street style is promoted in Japanese and international publications such as Fruits. Harajuku offers a means as a city center to various other locations and is a must see.Harajuku refers to the sector around the station of Harajuku in Tokyo, a station north to Shibuya on ...
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Harajuku's Glance
2007-05-07 13:06:00
Harajuku, the common name for the area around Harajuku Station, between Shinjuku and Shibuya. Local landmarks include the headquarters of NHK, Meiji Shrine and Yoyogi Park.It is a wild and crazy place best seen on a Sunday or any other holiday for that matter. It is located just 1 station north of Shibuya and some consider it to be the extion of Shibuya. You may be suprised to find teen dressing up in cosplay, anime, or other gothic type costumes right out side the station or street performers acting out for a little extra money. The area known as "Ura-Hara" (back streets of Harajuku) is a center of Japanese fashion for younger people, with brands such as Bathing ape and Undercover having shops in the area. Harajuku street style is promoted in Japanese and international publications such as Fruits. Harajuku offers a means as a city center to various other locations and is a must see.Harajuku refers to the sector around the station of Harajuku in Tokyo, a station north to Shibuya on ...
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Harajuku Girls
2007-05-07 13:05:00
Harajuku girl, used to identify girls who gather in Harajuku district, Tokyo, Japan. Their costumes is in several different styles of clothing that originated in the culture of Japan's major cities.The term is not only monopolized by those who gather in the district themselves, but has become a relatively popular expression in the United States. Popular use originated from the American singer Gwen Stefani's 2004 Love.Angel.Music.Baby album, which brought attention to Stefani's entourage of four supposed "Harajuku Girls " who were hired to portray the look, three of whom are Japanese and one of whom is Japanese American. These "Harajuku Girls" are not in fact the fashion aficionados or the home sewing hobbyists from whence they derive their name.Harajuku is a popular iconic placed in the world of entertainment, inside and outside of Japan. It was said that the girls of Harajuku are “beauty stars of Japan”. The American singer Gwen Stefani puts Harajuku reference in several of h...
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NHK Studiopark Harajuku
2007-05-06 06:50:00
NHK Studiopark, located in Shibuya, Hara juku , adjacent to Harajuku Station or JR Shibuya Station, is a part of NHK Broadcasting Center. It is close to Yoyogi Park and open to the public. NHK (Nippon Hosou Kyouka) means Japan Broadcasting Group or Corporation. It is a public TV of Japan just as The ABC in Australia and BBC in Great Britain.NHK Studiopark gives visitors a chance to look behind the scenes of television broadcasting for a small entrance fee, 200 Yen. By paying that admission, visitors can look the production of a live programs on most days such as the popular morning drama, the historical taiga drama, and the kids program "Okaasan To Issho". The visitors can also watch the nationwide live broadcast of the talk program "Studiopark Kara Konnichiwa" from behind the scenes on weekdays from around 1pm.NHK Studiopark hs attracted nearly a million visitors a year. Visitors are eager to visit this studiopark since it offers a tour of the recording studios where the visitors can...

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2007-05-04 19:54:00
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Harajuku [Digg]
2007-05-04 01:16:00
HARAJUKU, a name given for the area around HARAJUKU Station, located between Shinjuku and Shibuya. Local landmarks include the headquarters of NHK, Meiji Shrine and Yoyogi Park.
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The after-effects of HD DVD Hex Code Controversy. Its everywhere now. [Digg
2007-05-03 19:04:00
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Togo Shrine Harajuku
2007-05-03 07:11:00
Togo Shrine (???? Togo-jinja), located on Meiji Dori in Hara juku , near the intersection of Takeshita Street and Meiji Avenue. It is accessible from Harajuku Station, near Meiji-Jingumae, Tokyo. It was built in 1940. Togo shrine is an oasis of peace and harmony, right next to the crowded Takeshita-dori street.Togo Shrine is a memorial Shinto shrine dedicated to military commander Admiral Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934) shortly after his death. Togo Heihachiro campaigned commander in the defining 1905 victory against Russia at the Tsushima Straits. The Admiral defeated the Russian fleet in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.Togo supervised former Emperor Hirohito's education from 1914-1924. The shrine was established in 1940 but destroyed in the air bombings of 1945. Then the shrine was replaced by a contemporary building in 1969 and a memorial hall was added in the shrine. Togo Heihachiro is celebrated as a shinto kami in Togo Shrine. There is a small museum and a bookshop dedicated to Togo...
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Add Url Online [Digg]
2007-04-26 19:06:00
Quality web directory add your url online and get instant approval. submit free url. search and get the right url you need.
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Guide to Achieving An Optimized Website [Digg]
2007-04-25 10:24:00
This is a short and sweet guide on optimizing your website regarding SEO, Traffic, Pagerank, Link Building, Niche, and more. It gives people a basic understanding of what a website is and what it needs to be successful.
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Louis Vuitton Harajuku
2007-04-11 07:56:00
The Louis Vuitton store in Omotesando, Hara juku was opened in autumn 2002. This is The Louis Vuitton company's largest store in the world, also their luxury goods maker’s and one of the most beautiful store. The public store occupied five of the building's ten floors, which are designed as a stack of trunks rather than conventional floors.The success of Louis Vuitton, of course, is based on bags, and so along with shoes. The store located at 5-7-5 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku. Tel: 03-3478-2100. Open daily 11am-8pm. The nearest station of the store is Omotesando Station.

KiddyLand Harajuku
2007-04-09 11:44:00
KiddyLand , used to be called Tokyo's Capitol of Cute in Hara juku . It is one of Tokyo's most fun, famous and popular toy stores sightseeing spots in Tokyo. Located along the Omotesando - the georgous harajuku boulevard - KiddyLand consists of six floors filled with all kinds of huge selection toys from electronic games, character goods to stuffed animals.Many major toy brands and popular characters, including Disney, Barbie and Hello Kitty, Peanuts Gang, American Superhero are available here. In 2nd floor, you can find any Peanuts Item in Japan. Sometime, The shop use Peanuts for Season Campaign Character. For example was the Xmas campaign of 1996. Overall, KiddyLand is nirvana of toys, the must visited spot for the young and the young at heart. KiddyLand is located at 6-1-9 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku. If you want to go there, you can take JR "YAMANOTE-LINE", and take off "Harajuku". And exit "Omotesando-Guchi"(Entrance of Omotesando). Crossing road and you can see Drugstore in the corne...
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Oriental Bazaar Harajuku
2007-04-09 10:50:00
Oriental Bazaar is one of Tokyo's largest souvenir shops, most probably it is the most famous of souvenir shops. Oriental Bazaar is very popular among foreign travelers who look for typical Japanese souvenirs, such as kimono, tableware, lamps, dolls, furniture and samurai related goods.This store is located about halfway between Omotesando and Harajuku station on Omotesando Dori (5-9-13 Jingu-mae) near Togo Shrine in Harajuku. To find the Bazaar go to Omotesando station and walk down the main street towards Harajuku, the shop is on the right about halfway down the road. It is just down the street from Kiddyland. The Oriental Bazaar is set in a quieter section of bustling Harajuku.Oriental Bazaar is also the most imaginatively laid out. The bazaar has several different focuses, and the store is laid out accordingly. It is a four-stories store, and when you step to the higher floor you will get the more expensive items. The basement stocks bright, cheap and cheerful, touristy items, ...
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Laforet Harajuku
2007-04-05 09:33:00
Laforet Hara juku (Rafore Harajuku) is a department store and museum located in the Harajuku commercial and entertainment district of the Shibuya neighborhood, in Tokyo, Japan, on one of Harajuku's most famous intersections.Its museum is on sixth floor and HMV in the basement. Laforet Harajuku used to be called the teen fashion mecca. It is a trend setting shopping complex, consisting of seven floors of fashion boutiques and shops, mainly geared towards girls audience.Laforet Harajuku, a building packed with fashion boutiques, is a local landmark, while Ura Harajuku (Backstreet Harajuku), or "Urahara" for short, used to be a quiet residential area but became a hub for young designers in the 1990s. Most girls will enter this store, since it serves the ultimate trends in Japanese fashion. Be warned, as this place is really wacky and may not appeal to Western style clothing. Laforet is known for its big summer bargain sales in July and for striving to be on the cutting edge of fashion ...
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Daiso Harajuku
2007-04-01 18:43:00
Alongside the glamour boutiques and dining in Hara juku is the "Daiso Harajuku" otherwise known as the 100 yen Shop. Take a look of it from Takeshita dori, Harajuku’s busy pedestrian mall, Daiso looks like a big pharmacy, full of cosmetics and toiletries. But if you take a look around inside you’ll see that there are 3 more floors: a basement full of kitchenware, and a huge range of stationary, homewares and electrical accessories upstairs. Browsing through, it seems like a regular variety store, until you notice that everything is priced at just 105 yen.Daiso is a 100 Yen store right in the heart of Takeshita dori in Harajuku, located only a few steps from Harajuku Station along Takeshita Dori. It is only one minute walk from JR Harajuku Station (Takeshita-guchi Exit). While Japan's largest 100 Yen shop, Daiso Giga Machida, spans 5 floors in front of Machida Station (30 minutes, 360 Yen from Shinjuku by Odakyu Railways). Daiso Harajuku is one of the largest 100 Yen stores in ce...

Snoopy Town Harajuku
2007-03-31 10:15:00
This is a toy kiosk provided for Snoopy and the Peanuts Gang merchandise freak located directly across Hara juku Station. Snoopy and the Peanuts gang freak would absolutely fall in love with this toy kiosk at the first visit to this place. Snoopy Town sells all kinds of Snoopy and the Peanuts Gang stuff. This kiosk was opened on april 2nd, 1999.This Harajuku Snoopy Town kiosk is the third kiosk in Tokyo, and the fifth kiosk in all over Japan. The theme of the store is a shool bus stop, a yellow American shool bus is put inside the kiosk. The kiosk is a branch of the popular Snoopy Town kiosk within the Hep Five shopping complex in Umeda.If you want to go to this kiosk, you may take JR YAMANOTE-LINE, then take off at Harajuku station and exit by Omotesando-Guchi (Entrance of Omotesando). As soon as you exit the station, Snoopy Town kiosk is the first store your eyes would spot at. You would find the big Snoopy and his friends, you would never lose a way.The main idea of the kiosk is s...

Harajuku Lovers [Digg]
2007-03-26 23:13:00
If you are looking for something different in kid's wear, you should go to Hara juku Lovers , one of line space of clothing by Gwen Stefani for the men, the women and the children who have ?an attraction mortal with the kindness?.
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Harajuku Girls [Digg]
2007-03-24 02:25:00
Harajuku girl, used to identified girls who gather in Harajuku district, Tokyo, Japan. Their costums is in several different styles of clothing that originated in the culture of Japan's major cities.The term is not only monopolized by those who gather in the district themselves, but has become a relatively popular expression in the United States.
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Harajuku Area Map
2007-03-23 15:41:00
On the left and below you will find various maps of Hara juku area, every single map has their own characteristic as what you need them for.To see those maps in the bigger version you have to click on the map, then it will be shown up in the actual size.
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Yoyogi National Stadium
2007-02-27 09:36:00
Yoyogi National Stadium (国立代々木競技場, Kokuritsu Yoyogi Kyōgi-jō?) in Shibuya, Tokyo, is an arena in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan which is famous for its suspension roof design. It was designed by Kenzo Tange, Japan's foremost postwar architect.It was built between 1961 and 1964 to house swimming and diving events in the 1964 Summer Olympics. This stadium located across the Inokashira Avenue from the Yoyogi Park. The Stadium is one of Tokyo's most impressive landmarks. National Yoyogi Stadium is also in Harajuku area. Located in Yoyogi Park which is also where Meiji Shrine located, no wonder National Yoyogi Stadium is one of most attended place in Tokyo.The design inspired Frei Otto's arena designs for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. its awesome and daring shell-like steel-suspension roofing has earned it a spot in the Japanese Ministry of Construction's Top 100 Public Structures of Japan. The stadium seats 8,000 and is used for concerts, mostly rock, as well as s...
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Meiji Shrine Harajuku
2007-02-27 09:22:00
Meiji Shrine (明治神宮) is Tokyo's largest shrine, and one of Japan's three "Jingu"(Imperial shrine). This shrine dedicated to the deified spirits of Emperor Meiji and his consort, Empress Shoken. In Shinto, it is not uncommon to enshrine the deified spirits of important personalities.This perfect example of Shinto architecture--muted colors and spare lines—was completed then opened in 1920 to commemorate the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912. It was built by over 100,000 volunteers. It is located in a wooded park area next to Yoyogi Park, Hara juku , Tokyo. Various events and festivals are celebrated at the shrine throughout the year. Meiji Shrine located in Tokyo, Japan near Harajuku Station.Meiji Shrine is adjacent to Yoyogi Park, smack in the heart of ultra-fashionable Tokyo. Aoyama, Omotesando, and Harajuku are a short walk away; Shibuya and Shinjuku are a couple of stops on the Yamanote Line. The shrine is is a short walk from Yoyogi Station on the Yamanote Line. The park c...

Yoyogi Koen Harajuku
2007-02-27 09:11:00
The largest Open to the public park in Tokyo (Akasaka Park and the Imperial Palace having partly restricted access). Yoyo gi Park lies between the Meiji Shrine grounds and the NHK Broadcasting Center.Contrarily to others like Ueno or Shinjuku Gyoen, it has a much more luxuriant flora, and is the only one really like a forest rather than a park or gardens since Yoyogi Park has variety of landscape and places to sit and enjoy your time. A popular place for "Lovers" to go.Yoyogi Koen (Yoyogi Park, in Japanese, park is koen) a vast expanse of trees and grass, is one of Tokyo's largest and pleasant city parks, featuring wide lawns, ponds and forested areas. It is a great place for jogging, picnicking and other outdoor activities. It is one of the largest parks in Tokyo, located adjacent to Hara juku Station and Meiji Shrine not far from Shibuya. Approximately 3-5 minute walk from Harajuku Station on the JR Yamanote Line. JR Harajuku Station is on the Yamanote Line which makes Yoyogi Park ...