Hachiko Statue, originally uploaded by demosthenesofathens.

It was getting late, and I was making my way from the Tokyu next to Shibuya Station to another, higher-end Tokyu where Maoi’s mom and brother were waiting.

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Shibuya at night. I took this photo while crossing the street, trying not to get elbowed and shoved around.

The Nintendo DS Game The World Ends With You is set in an alternate-reality version of Shibuya, the ultra-trendy fashion capital of the ultra-trendy city of Tokyo. More than anywhere else you will find people dressing according to the subcultures that they belong to — loligoth, urban hip, princess-kei, retro hip, and so on. And unlike more homogenized fashion scenes like, say, Manila, the fashion of one subculture wildly diverges from the fashion of another.

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