Shibuya 109

This guide to Shibuya 109 in Tokyo follows the curved fashion tower built in 1979 by the railway company Tokyu for women in their early thirties, and the decade it spent nearly empty. It traces how, in the early 1990s, high school girls breaking uniform rules gathered at a small boutique called Me Jane, and how Tokyu responded by tearing through the building floor by floor. Stand at the base of the curved tower where Shibuya's crowds spill into Dogenzaka.