Shibuya Crossing
Scramble-style intersection where thousands of pedestrians flood across from every direction at once, beside a bronze statue of a famously loyal dog.
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This guide to Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo starts at the bronze statue of Hachiko, the Akita brought from the north in the early 1920s to live with a professor named Hidesaburo Ueno. It traces the dog's daily walk to Shibuya station to meet his owner's train, and the May 1925 day the routine changed, after which Hachiko kept returning anyway. Listen at the statue itself, just off the crossing, as thousands of pedestrians sweep past on the change of the lights.
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