New Corner "BUNKA × AREA" Start!

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New corner from today "BUNKA × AREA"I was started.

This project the first place of the reason I started is, you want to break the stereotype ideas and images of tend to precede "Shibuya", it has started from a place called. "Shibuya" is Dogenzaka, Miya Miyamasuzaka, as suggesting from the fact there are many place names Sakuragaoka ... such as "hill", "valley", "hill" is attached to the Uguisudani, has a rich in very rough terrain. Also at first glance, seems to hinder the development of the city, there is this mountain, terrain there valleys, has resulted in a "personality" and "development" unexpectedly in each area, to talk about the "Shibuya" to lump together It does not get to say and impossible. Therefore, in the new plan "BUNKA × AREA" Street (street), shopping street, underground shopping center, facilities, such as the names of places and side streets ..., review each area of ​​Shibuya, which has evolved from the details from a variety of backgrounds. History and origins, of course, while picking up the raw voice went interviewed in the "people" in the new and old involved deeply in the area, and want to introduce that it is a "Shibuya = collection of fascinating area." think.

First round of the theme is "Cat Street"is. Sintering the Shibuya and Harajuku went devoted from Meiji street and OmotesandoLovely Idol back road. Nowadays, it is this land that is known as the holy place of the state-of-the-art street fashion, the old days are Shibuya River, which was culverts (穏田 river) flows along the road, had been followed by a rural landscape that turn the water wheel That's right. That is the fact that walk the Cat Street, that is not equal to that you are walking on the river. If think so, as walking on the water, be or become strange feel like somehow even to the ninja .... Also Speaking of ninja, but is that was found in this interview, is so Kakurezato of Iga ninja to guard the Ieyasu Tokugawa is also said to be a "KomoTamura (in the vicinity of the current Cat Street)". Complex that trail often and the maze in this area, also of cafes and shops, such as the retreat tucked away in the back streets, I do not maybe have affected such a historical background is unexpectedly .

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