Shibuya
Shibuya is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan.
Shibuya is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. A major commercial center, Shibuya houses two of the busiest railway stations in the world, Shibuya Station and Shinjuku Station.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Shibuya Crossing
The famous crossing sees people crossing in every direction en masse.
- 02Hachikō
A diminutive statue of a dog tucked away in one corner of the big plaza outside the station, best known as a meeting place and for the story (see box).
- 03Center Gai
The narrow street leading away from the station to the left of the giant video screen, it's famous as the birthplace of many of Japan's youth fashion trends.
- 04Moyai
- 05Bunkamura
A complex featuring an excellent art museum, in addition to theaters for film and stage plays.
- 06Hikarie
Hikarie is a massive building on the east side of Shibuya Station with many restaurants, galleries, and theaters.
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Things to do
There are movie theaters and electronics stores nearby.
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Where to eat
You can't turn around without spotting a handful of restaurants here – from one coin (less than ¥500) noodles to top notch gourmet food.
- 01Kujiraya
- 02Murghi
Founded in 1951, when the owner decided to serve the kind of curry he had enjoyed in Burma before World War II.
- 03Tokyu Food Show
- 04Gonpachi
3-6 Maruyama-cho Shibuya-ku 14F (halfway between Shibuya Station and Inokashira Line's Shinsen station),.
- 05Restaurant Kinoshita
3-37-1 Yoyogi (Next to the Design Festa Art Gallery and),.
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Getting to Shibuya
- Airports
- Tokyo Haneda (HND), 14 km · Narita (NRT), 63 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 87 km
- Narita → Shibuya57 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · ¥800–1,100
- Omitama → Shibuya87 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · ¥1,070–1,460
- Makinohara / Shimada → Shibuya167 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · ¥2,190–2,990
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Shibuya
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Shibuya. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHitchhiking into Tokyo is pretty easy, but hitchhiking out is considerably more difficult.
- Get inIt's definitely possible for determined cheapskates though, see Hitchhiking in Japan for a detailed list of tested escape routes from the city.
- Get inKokusai Kogyo Bus (国際興業バス) Keisei Bus (京成バス) Keikyu Bus (京急バス) Keio Bus (Japanese Website) (京王バス) Kanto Bus (関東バス) Nishi Tokyo Bus (Japanese Website) (西東京バス) Odakyu Bus (Japanese Website) (小田急バス) Odakyu Highway Bus (小田急ハイウェイバス) Seibu Bus (西武バス) Tobu Bus (Japanese Website) (東武バス) Tohoku Kyuko Bus (東北急行バス) One of the great ports of the world, Tokyo also has domestic ferry services to other points in Japan.
- Get inHowever, none of the regular international ferries to Japan call at Tokyo.
- Get inThe main long-distance ferry terminal is , on an artificial island adjacent to Odaiba in Tokyo Bay.
From Wikivoyage: Tokyo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Shibuya
Shibuya is 3 km from Tokyo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.