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The Bells of Booya

Thoughts about Shibuya's transformation, from 1993 to today.

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Jul 06, 2023
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Shibuya, 1993. The first jumbo display wouldn’t go in until 1999. Same spot today.

Once upon a time, Shibuya was my favorite neighborhood in all of Tokyo. I still enjoy visiting, but things have changed a lot since I first started going there in the mid-Nineties. The construction of a series of massive office towers over the course of the 2010s transfor…

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