Jumat, 01 April 2011

“ Harajuku style ”

Harajuku (原宿?) is a popular designation for the area around JR Harajuku Station, District of Shibuya, Tokyo. This area is famous as a place young people gather. The location covers around the Meiji Shrine, Yoyogi Park, shopping centers Takeshita Street (Takeshita-Dori), department store Laforet, and the Yoyogi National Gymnasium. Harajuku is not an official designation for the name of the place, and are not included when writing the address.

Around the 1980's, Harajuku is home to a subculture Takenoko-zoku. To this day, groups of young people dressed in weird can be found in Harajuku area. In addition, school children from various corners of Harajuku in Japan often incorporate a study tour destination during a visit to Tokyo.

Actually the term "Harajuku"is only used for the area north of Omotesando. Onden is the name of the region south of Omotesando, but the name was not popular and participate is called Harajuku.

Prior to the Edo period, Harajuku is one of the town inn (juku) for people who travel through the Main Street route Kamakura. Tokugawa Ieyasu rewarded the mastery of Harajuku to ninja from Iga Province who helped him escape after the incident Honnōji Sakai.

In the Edo period, a group of ninja from Iga set up headquarters in Harajuku to protect the city of Edo because of its strategic location in the southern part of Main Street Koshu. In addition to the ninja, the samurai class Bakushin also choose to reside in Harajuku. Farmers planting rice in Shibuya River area, and use the water wheel to grind rice or make flour.

In the Meiji era, Harajuku was built as a critical area that connects the city with the region surrounding Tokyo. In 1906, JR Harajuku Station opened as part of the Yamanote train line extension. After that, Omotesando (the main road to the temple) was built in 1919 after the Meiji Shrine was founded.

After the opening of various department stores in the 1970s, became the center of Harajuku fashion. This area became famous throughout Japan after a covered fashion magazines like Anan and non-no. At that time, a group of girls called Annon-zoku often found walking the streets of Harajuku area. They imitate the fashions worn fashion magazine model Anan and non-no.

Around the 1980's, Takeshita Street became crowded because people want to see Takenoko-zoku who dressed weird and dancing in the streets. Once established as a special area of pedestrians, Harajuku became a favorite hangout for young children. After Harajuku increasingly crowded, boutiques that sell goods of famous brands began to appear in Omotesando around the 1990's.

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