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.
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.
