【4K】why many cute girls come to shin okubo on weekends

【4K】why many cute girls come to shin okubo on weekends

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Shin-Ōkubo is a neighborhood within Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward known for its extensive Korean community. It is built around Shin-Ōkubo Station and is accessible on the Yamanote Line.
Okubo, an area in Shinjuku ward, is Tokyo’s most famous Korean town, and is home to sizable Chinese, South-East Asian, and Indian communities, too.

The area loosely known as Okubo area occupies two ward sub-districts: Okubo and Hyakunincho.

From its pre-war status as a nest of opulence (much like present day Azabu), after the Pacific War, it emerged from the ruins as home to the Korean community created by Japan’s colonization of Korea.
The main street, Okubo-dori Avenue, running through the Hyakunincho sub-district, is colorfully lined with Korean and, to a lesser extent, Chinese, shops, restaurants, and grocers. Bibimba, yakiniku (i.e. Korean barbecue), kimchi, hangwa, pa jun, soju – it’s all there in Okubo, as well as all you might need for Korean cooking.

The Koreans and Chinese have been joined by other communities from Asia including Vietnamese, Indonesians, Thais and Malaysians so Okubo is the area to come to find authentic South East Asian cuisine, Asian grocery stores, halal shops and some excellent restaurants.

Christian churches are plentiful in Okubo due to the large number of Korean Christians, who actually attend every Sunday rather than just have their wedding there.

The biggest temple in Okubo is Zenryuji (The Temple of the Golden Dragon; 全龍寺), just 200m east from Shin-Okubo Station on Okubo-dori Avenue. Its entrance is traditionally picturesque, but the bland contemporary construction of the temple itself makes it hardly worth going in.

Kaichuinari Shrine, is a small shrine near Shine Okubo Station, that dates from 1533. It enshrines the local deity of Okubo and has associations with a company of Edo period musket men who were stationed nearby.

The lower rents for land in Okubo also means it has many love hotels, some of them decidedly down-market.