Harajuku Fashion - Top Tourism Attractions in Tokyo

For youth culture Japan, Harajuku, just north of Shibuya, is the number one fashionable, fun, faddish, ridiculous, crazy place to hang out. Come along on a Sunday and you’ll see it all!

Harajuku Fashion

If it’s Harajuku’s youth culture you want to see, don’t even bother unless it’s the weekend and preferably a Sunday. The bridge across the train tracks from Harajuku Station to Yoyogi Park is full of Gothic Lolita, Rockabilly, Punks, Costume Play and Gothloli teens.

The costumes are very outstanding and you can’t miss them. It is funny to see the surprise of the western tourists heading to Yoyogi Park and Meiji Jingu who clearly had not read their guide books fully on Harajuku. You can hear their comments that make it very clear they just don’t understand what is going on. Essentially the youth who have dressed up are just hanging out with friends, many of them come with the hope of being snapped by one of the many magazine photographers who mingle in the crowd. Failing that there are lots of western tourist happy to take their pictures.

Takeshita-dori

A narrow street packed with young fashionable people and lined with fashion boutiques and cafes. This is definitely the place to be seen if you are young Tokyoite, but well worth visiting as a tourist. Takeshita-dori represents the cutting edge of fashion in Tokyo where you can see all the latest in Japanese street fashion and then buy in the boutiques. Takeshita-dori is opposite the exit to Harajuku Station.