Shinjuku

district, Tokyo, Japan

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In Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area: Centre and satellites
Shinjuku is the largest and is the main retail and entertainment district in the city and in the land. More people pass through Shinjuku railway station, on their way from and to home in the sprawling western suburbs, than through any other station in Japan…
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In Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area: Services of the Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area
…years after World War I, Shinjuku was known as the “anus of Tokyo.” The principal route to the fields ran through it, and every afternoon and evening carts would be backed up along the main street. Even in the years after World War II, Tokyo was a most malodorous city.…
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