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Harajuku is a popular name for the area around the JR Harajuku, Shibuya district, Tokyo. This area known as the place young people gather. The location includes about Meiji Jingu, Yoyogi Park, shopping centers Takeshita Street (Takeshita-dori), the department store Laforet, and the Yoyogi National Gymnasium. Harajuku is not the official name for the name of the place, and are not included when writing the address. Around the 1980s, Harajuku is a growing subculture Takenoko-zoku. To this day, groups of young people dressed in weird can be found in the Harajuku area. In addition, school children from various parts of Japan Harajuku often include a study tour destination during a visit to Tokyo.

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

Before the Edo period, Harajuku is one of the inn (juku) for those who travel through the Main Street route Kamakura. Tokugawa Ieyasu Harajuku presented to the mastery of the province of Iga ninja who help him escape from Sakai Honnoji after the incident. In the Edo period, the Iga ninja group established headquarters in Harajuku to protect the city of Edo for the 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 the Shibuya River area, and using a water mill to grind grain or to make flour.

In the Meiji era, Harajuku was built as an important area that connects the city of Tokyo to the surrounding area. In 1906, JR Harajuku Station opened as part of the extension Line railway. After that, Omotesando (the main road to the temple) was built in 1919 after the Meiji Jingu shrine was founded.

After the opening of department stores in the 1970s, Harajuku fashion center. This area became famous throughout Japan after the fashion magazines such as coverage and non-Anan no. At that time, groups of girls who called Annon-zoku often found walking the streets of Harajuku area.