The NHK Studiopark is a broadcasting theme park located within the NHK Broadcasting Center headquarters. It offers an hour long tour teaching young and old visitors the many aspects of broadcasting.
The NHK Studiopark is the first exhibition about broadcasting in Japan. It is run by the NHK Broadcasting Center or the Nippon Hasa Kyakai Broadcasting Center that produces many news, educational, sports, music, anime and drama programs. The park attracts millions of visitors every year and offers a behind the scenes view of how the studio works.
The NHK Studiopark tour includes a tour of the recording studios. Visitors are allowed to see the live recording of popular Japanese television programs, live recordings of the news and on weekdays, the live recording of the popular nationwide talk program called Studiopark Kara Konichiwa. The park also has interactive displays where visitors can act or announce in a live recording studio. There is also a display of the technology that goes into the making of a television program including dubbing technology, computer graphics, digital broadcasting and 3D images. A 3D high definition theater and an audio visual display about the history of broadcasting also form part of the tour. The gift shop stocks television themed T shirts and other novelties that visitors can buy as souvenirs. The Park has a small admission charge and is closed on Mondays and public holidays.

Mandarake is the largest seller of Manga collectibles in Japan and there are three major stores stocking them in Tokyo. Manga are comics and cartoons created in Japan.
There are three major shopping places where one can find Mandarake products in Tokyo. Products offered by the stores include second hand Doujinshi or comics created by amateurs, manga comics, toys, anime cels, Shitajike or pencil boards, Cds, Lds, posters and art books.
There is a small shopping mall with 12 specialized Mandarake shops in Nakano. Each stocks specific items relating to manga anime or video games. Items available include model cars, idol goods, anime song cds, videogames and costumes for cosplay. There are three used manga stores where comics are sorted by size and publisher. There is also a typically Japanese Maid Café at the mall. The Shibuya district of Tokyo has a single large Mandarake store located two floors below the ground. The store also features a karaoke stage for the performance of popular anime theme songs. Another popular Madarake store is the Ikebukuro Store near Tokyo Hands. All three stores attract many customers looking for used and new games related collectibles, retro US toys from the 1960s and 1970s and action figures related to Japanese anime.

The Bankamura meaning Culture Village is a large theater and music hall complex in Tokyo. It is a multipurpose entertainment zone operated by the Tokyu Department Store chain.
The Bunkamura was designed by French architect, Jean Michel Willmotte and opened its doors in 2009. The façade resembles a sailing ship and the complex has several floors with cinema and concert halls, boutique stores and restaurants. The sixth floor has a large theater called Le Cinema that offers the latest in movie screening techniques. The two screens are equipped with state of the art picture and acoustic capabilities. On the third floor is the Orchard Hall which is regarded as Tokyo’s finest venues for staging concerts and ballets. The theater Cocoon on the first floor is a hall that has a seating space for an audience of 700. Dramas, music and dance performances are held at the Cocoon.
The Bunkamura has two art galleries featuring temporary exhibitions of masterpieces from around the world including a gallery featuring works by new artists. There is an Italian restaurant, a bookstore, a wine salon called Le Deux Magots and a Swarovski shop. In September, the Literary Prize of Bunkamura is awarded annually to a Japanese writer at the Le Deux Magots restaurant.

The 109 Building is a shopping center located in the Shibuya District of Tokyo operated by the Tokyu Group. It has over a hundred boutiques selling trendy clothes for women.
The 109 Building is located in a street that was once called Koibumi Yokocho or Love Letter lane. It was designed by architect, Minoru Takeyama and built in 1979. The name 109 is from the Japanese characters To meaning 10 and Yu meaning 9 and stands for the Tokyu Group. It has a cylindrical shape and shoppers move in a loop on each floor through the elevators with a full view of all the shops. There are ten floors, eight above the ground and two below.
Small designers and manufacturers who sell the latest trends in clothing for young women have outlets at the 109 Building. It is very popular with young women between the ages of 15 and 20. The building is famous for creating a new culture among young Japanese women called the Kogal subculture. Kogals wear platform boots, plenty of makeup, color their hair blond, wear miniskirts, artificial suntans and plenty of fashion accessories. The stores attract customers from all over the country and their popularity among young Japanese women has not faded since 109 Building opened its doors.

The Hachiko Statue depicts the figure of an Akita ken dog that has become a symbol of loyalty, commitment and friendship in Tokyo. It attracts thousands of dog lovers locally and from around the world who come to pay homage to the symbol canine loyalty and friendship with human beings.
Professor Eisaburo Ueno adopted an Akita ken puppy born in 1923 in the city of Odate in the Akito Prefecture. He took his dog, Hachiko to Tokyo when he became a professor at the Imperial University. Every day Hachiko accompanied the professor to the railway station and waited for his return. In 1925, the professor died of a cerebral hemorrhage while at work and did not return home. Hachiko did not understand the reason why the professor did not return on the train that day and came to the same spot at the appointed time every day and waited for his return until its own death in 1935.
The people were touched by the loyalty of Hachiko and erected a statue at the spot where he waited in 1934, one year before its death. The artist Ando Teru made the first statue which was destroyed during World War II. After the war, his son Ando Tekeshi made a new sculpture for the Society for Recreating the Hachiko in 1948. There is also a Hachiko memorial souvenir store nearby.

The Center Gai is a shopping street in Tokyo that begins at the front of the Shibuya Station to the Tokyu Departmental Store main building. The name has recently been changed to Basketball Street.
The Center Gai is 350 meters long and is located between the Bunkamura Street and Koen street. It has many shops selling fashion clothing, game arcades, bars, cheap cafes, music stores, innovative boutiques and restaurants. It has the reputation of setting many fashion trends among Japanese youth. It is a place where young Japanese and tourists hang out at night. The Center Gai also divides the two large departmental stores in Tokyo, Seibu and Tokyu.
The Center Gai now known as the Basketball Street is run by the merchants’ body called the Shibuya Center Gai Association. The headquarters of the National Basketball Organization, the BJ League is located in the street within the large Yoyogi National Gymnasium. The reason for the change of name was to clean up the image of the street that has often been associated with drug peddlers and other delinquents and has earned nicknames such as Scary Street and Dirty Street. The vibrancy of Center Gai has made it one of the most visited among Tokyo shopping streets by tourists.

The Koen- dori is one of the many shopping streets in the Shibuya area of Tokyo. Besides shops, it is also the venue where street music and dance performers entertain local and foreign visitors.
The Koen-dori is 450 meters long and stretches from the Marui City Departmental Store to the Shibuya City office. The street has many major departmental stores and fashion boutiques. The NHK or Japan broadcasting Corporation and the Yoyogi Park Stadium are located here. Since Japanese fashions and pop culture have become popular around the world, Koen-dori is frequented by fashionable Japanese and international visitors.
The Yoyogi stadium hosts events, Shibuya festivals and musical performances. Koen dori is also famous for music from street performers to major live concerts. Two other halls are the CC Lemon concert hall and the Shibuya-AX. A major shopping complex in the street is the Parco. It has two buildings one with 10 floors and the other with 9 floors. It has become a symbol of the street and is a place where Japanese teenagers hang out. There are trendy shops, restaurants, entertainment centers, a theater, art gallery and a club within the complex. Visitors can download an online guide to shopping on Koen-dori and also get an English guidebook for a walking tour around the street.

This unique, one of a kind museum in Tokyo portrays the history and different aspects of tobacco and salt usage by the Japanese in particular and mankind in general. It is maintained by Japan Tobacco, one of the largest companies in the country.
The Tobacco and Salt Museum is housed in a four storey building and seeks to show the importance of tobacco and salt in trade and commerce and the history and usage by cultures where the commodities play an important role. It is easily accessible from the Koen Dori Street in the Shibuya area of Tokyo. It contains artifacts, paintings and documents relating to salt and tobacco. There are also sections showing the influence of tobacco on Japan and the methods used by the Japanese to smoke tobacco.
The first floor has a French café serving a range of galettes and a gift shop selling postcards, souvenirs and books about tobacco. There is also an auditorium for lectures and a display showing the history of salt and tobacco usage in Japan. The second floor has samples of the different types of tobacco used in the country from the time it was introduced to the people. The other floors have displays about salt and the different methods used in Japan and around the world to extract salt, paintings and tobacco related objects like cigarette packets and pipes.