Other late night drinkers will often find their way to the Golden Gai, with its 288 tiny bars parked into an area smaller than a soccer field. By day and night people pack into one of the many restaurants, such as Itamae Sushi, a restaurant that has won the first-of-the-year tuna auction four years in a row, or party in one of the izakayas or karaoke joints until late at night. Office workers commute here to work in one of the office buildings while closer to the ground on the streets tourists and shoppers check out the amazing range of retailers and department stores, like the Odakyu Department Store Shinjuku.Īs if to serve as a reminder of what nature looks like you can also find the very large Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, which offers a nice contrast to all the office buildings. In the west of Tokyo you can find one of the busiest stations in the world with over four million daily passengers, and here you can experience a real clash of cultures as anything you can imagine can be found here.
