Shinjuku Station - Top Tourism Attractions in Tokyo

Serving as the main connecting hub for rail traffic between central Tokyo and its western suburbs on inter-city rail, commuter rail and metro lines, the station was used by an average of over 4 million people per day, making it the busiest train station in the world in terms of number of passengers.

Japan Railways East, Odakyu, Keio and Seibu Shinjuku are some of the private companies operating trains in and out of out of this terminal. The station is packed with bars, restaurants, a couple of department stores, kiosks selling everything from ties to tissues. Coin lockers are available. The biggest thing to worry about here is the crowds, but they are quite orderly except perhaps late on Saturday nights. Including an underground arcade, there are well over 200 exits.

Many department stores and shopping malls are built directly into the station. These include
Lumine Est - above JR’s east exit
Odakyu department store - above the Odakyu line concourse
Odakyu Mylord - above the southern end of Odakyu line concourse
LUMINE 1 shopping mall - above the Keiō Line concourse
LUMINE 2 shopping mall - above JR’s south and Lumine exits
Keio Department store - above the Keiō Line concourse
Keio Mall - underground mall to the southwest of the Keiō Line concourse
Odakyu Ace - underground malls beneath the bus terminal by the west exit.

In addition to the above, the Metro Promenade, which is an underground mall owned by Tokyo Metro, extends eastwards from the station beneath Shinjuku-dori avenue, all the way to the adjacent Shinjuku-sanchōme station with 60 exits along the way. The Metro Promenade in turn connects to Shinjuku Subnade, another underground shopping mall, which leads onto Seibu Railway’s Seibu-Shinjuku station.