211128pedia: Shibuya City

Shibuya City [渋谷区]
Tokyo Ward 13
A major commerce, finance, and fashion center, Shibuya is partially home to the busy Shinjuku Station, as well as being the site of Shibuya Station. In past year, it became the official home of the Chō-Wakaitai, better known to the rest of the world by the awkward translation "Super Young Team". If Beika is the Gotham of Tokyo, then hyper-modern Shibuya is its Metropolis: towering, gleaming, and central to business, with a notable superheroic presence known the world over. Permanent residents of Shibuya benefit from the ward being the first municipality in Japan to formally certify same-sex partnership, but both straight and LGBT+ activists have accused the ward of using the move to pinkwash efforts to force houseless residents out.	The Shibuya City seal.
Notable Inhabitants: Kaminari Keigo / Sanzun Otoraikō ("Well-Spoken Sonic Lightning Flash") Kimura Kim / Aquazon Kinshijaku Atori / Kanaria ("Lolita Canary") Mochizuki Rento / Ō-Gakutōrō Bō ("Big Atomic Lantern Boy") Okata Heino / Saikō Superbat ("Most Excellent Superbat")	Notable Locations: Harajuku: the center of Japanese youth culture and fashion, Harajuku is also home to the headquarters of the Chō-Wakaitai, and sightings of the charismatic young superheroes are commonplace. Shibuya: sharing a name with the ward in which it is found, this busy area is often considered to encompass far more than its official boundaries, with all four districts around Shibuya Station being counted in the popular opinion as 'Shibuya'. Its most noteworthy landmark is a statue of the famously loyal dog Hachikō, situated at the tremendously busy Shibuya Scramble Crossing—the Tokyo equivalent of Times Square in New York, or Piccadilly Circus in London. The crossing's popularity as a gathering place on Halloween has led to a blanket ban on alcohol consumption in and aound the area at the end of October. Shibuya Station: the fourth-busiest rail station in the world, Shibuya Station's proximity to the even more massively busy Shinjuku Station makes the ward into one where the foot traffic never stops. Travelers arriving from and departing towards the south and west of Japan make the most use of the station, along with those heading out to the more suburban parts of the Tokyo metropolis. Shinjuku Station: serving close to 4 million passengers per day, its status as the world's busiest railway station makes it central to transit in and beyond Tokyo. If it moves in the Tokyo metropolis, it passes through Shinjuku station. Due to its great size, the station is actually partially in the neighboring ward of Shinjuku.

Shibuya City [渋谷区]

Tokyo Ward 13

A major commerce, finance, and fashion center, Shibuya is partially home to the busy Shinjuku Station, as well as being the site of Shibuya Station. In past year, it became the official home of the Chō-Wakaitai, better known to the rest of the world by the awkward translation "Super Young Team".

If Beika is the Gotham of Tokyo, then hyper-modern Shibuya is its Metropolis: towering, gleaming, and central to business, with a notable superheroic presence known the world over.

Permanent residents of Shibuya benefit from the ward being the first municipality in Japan to formally certify same-sex partnership, but both straight and LGBT+ activists have accused the ward of using the move to pinkwash efforts to force houseless residents out.

The Shibuya City seal.

Notable Inhabitants:
Kaminari Keigo / Sanzun Otoraikō ("Well-Spoken Sonic Lightning Flash")
Kimura Kim / Aquazon
Kinshijaku Atori / Kanaria ("Lolita Canary")
Mochizuki Rento / Ō-Gakutōrō Bō ("Big Atomic Lantern Boy")
Okata Heino / Saikō Superbat ("Most Excellent Superbat")

Notable Locations:

Harajuku: the center of Japanese youth culture and fashion, Harajuku is also home to the headquarters of the Chō-Wakaitai, and sightings of the charismatic young superheroes are commonplace.

Shibuya: sharing a name with the ward in which it is found, this busy area is often considered to encompass far more than its official boundaries, with all four districts around Shibuya Station being counted in the popular opinion as 'Shibuya'. Its most noteworthy landmark is a statue of the famously loyal dog Hachikō, situated at the tremendously busy Shibuya Scramble Crossing—the Tokyo equivalent of Times Square in New York, or Piccadilly Circus in London. The crossing's popularity as a gathering place on Halloween has led to a blanket ban on alcohol consumption in and aound the area at the end of October.

Shibuya Station: the fourth-busiest rail station in the world, Shibuya Station's proximity to the even more massively busy Shinjuku Station makes the ward into one where the foot traffic never stops. Travelers arriving from and departing towards the south and west of Japan make the most use of the station, along with those heading out to the more suburban parts of the Tokyo metropolis.

Shinjuku Station: serving close to 4 million passengers per day, its status as the world's busiest railway station makes it central to transit in and beyond Tokyo. If it moves in the Tokyo metropolis, it passes through Shinjuku station. Due to its great size, the station is actually partially in the neighboring ward of Shinjuku.