danced to music on the roadside. Musical crazes followed, like rock’n roller-zoku and band-zoku. The place to feel the latest trends used to be on streets that were closed to cars from Harajuku Station to Yoyogi Park. However, this popular weekly event tied up traffic and the road was again reopened to Sunday traffic in 1997. By that time the street gatherings practically disappeared. Currently, the best place to see the action is around Takeshita Street, between Meiji Avenue and the northern end of the station. Be prepared for huge crowds, especially on a holiday.

Situated almost in the middle of Tokyo, Harajuku is one of the most exciting and fashionable places around. Many young people gather at Harajuku, some of them starting fads that that catch on to other parts of the nation. Needless to say,

Harajuku is a well-liked area for tourists and teenagers on school trips. During the 70s, Harajuku made its mark to most of Japan when a fad culture called takenoko-zoku started. Followers of the fad wore brightly coloured clothes and