Photo: Benh LIEU SONG / CC BY-SA 2.0At peak times something on the order of two to three thousand people cross in a single signal phase, from five directions at once, and nobody collides. That is the whole attraction, and it is genuinely worth seeing once — the choreography of it is the thing, not the scale.
Beside the station stands the Hachiko statue, for the dog that returned to this spot every day for nearly a decade after its owner died. It is small, it is always surrounded, and it is the single most reliable meeting point in Tokyo.
It is small, it is always surrounded, and it is the single most reliable meeting point in Tokyo.
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See dates and book →Only if it is your specific goal. It is forty-five to sixty minutes each way from the terminals, and the crossing itself lasts about ninety seconds. On a call of eight hours or more it fits well at dusk; on a shorter call the travel time is hard to justify.
The second-floor Starbucks in the building directly opposite gives the classic overhead view for the price of a coffee. The paid observation decks are much higher, which sounds better but flattens the crossing — if the choreography is what you came for, stay low.
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