Takeshita Street
Narrow pedestrian shopping lane packed with youth fashion boutiques, crepe stands, and secondhand clothing stalls.
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This guide to Takeshita Street follows the takenoko-zoku, the bamboo shoot tribe, teenagers who shut down these streets on Sundays in the late 1970s to dance in ribboned satin costumes until the authorities put a stop to it. It traces how that impulse to invent yourself in public survived, carried today by the crepe stands and boutiques that still line this crowded strip of Harajuku. Listen for the crepe vendors folding cones one-handed for shoppers who never want to put a bag down.
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