Hachiko Statue
Bronze statue of a devoted Akita dog who waited daily at this station for a decade after his owner's death.
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This guide to the Hachiko Statue follows an Akita dog who waited outside Shibuya Station every evening for a professor who never returned. Hidesaburo Ueno adopted Hachiko in 1924, and after Ueno's sudden death the following year, the dog kept meeting the same train at the same hour for years, largely ignored until a 1932 newspaper story made him a national sensation. Look at the statue's drooping left ear, a detail sculptors studied closely while Hachiko was still alive.
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