Shinjuku

Shinjuku

A high-rise shopping and entertainment hub, with well over 500,000 travelers passing through it each day,according to JNTO.

Shinjuku Station at the Shinjuku renewal project area in Shinjuku-ku is a great terminal where JR Chuo Line, Yamanote Line, Sobu Line, Saikyo Line, Metropolitan subways Shinjuku Line and Oedo Line, private railways Odakyu Line, Keio Line and Seibu-Shinjuku Line concentrate, and over 500,000 people use this station everyday.

From Tokyo Station. Transfer to JR Chuo Line for 14 minutes from Tokyo Station to Shinjuku
Shinjuku is roughly divided into the West Exit area which is an office town with a row of high-rise building around the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office Building, the South Exit area which is a new comer to Shinjuku with complex establishments for shopping and amusement, and the prominent entertainment district around Kabuki-cho, a town that never sleeps. In the East Exit area, there is a row of department stores and other large size stores. All of these are integrated and linked together.
There is Shinjuku-gyoen Park, a nationally noted landscape style garden park created with the instructions by a French engineer in 1906, a ten-minute walk to the south from the East Exit. The European gardens consist of the French formal garden with rows of beautiful sycamore trees, rising trees, and English landscape garden with vast extending lawn, and Japanese traditional garden which iris pond and teahouse are placed, harmonize perfectly with each other. This garden park with the large area of 58.7 is embraced with greenery and serenity, completely secluded from the hustle and bustle of the Metropolitan Tokyo. It is renowned as the best sight for flowers and wild birds.