On my way back from the Welcome Cat temple, Google maps recommended a route where I would change trains in Shibuya so I had to get out and see how things had changed in the past 23 years. It was pretty busy before and it is even busier now. Here is a video of the Tokyo Pedestrian Scramble Crossing:
As you can hear in the video – it is pretty loud there. Like a lot of Tokyo, it is just a sea of humanity. I quickly caught a glimpse of the Super Mario Cart tour of Tokyo driving through the scramble (wearing costumes of course!) Not the best photo – they were zipping by, but I like the couple in the front who I inadvertently took a picture of 🙂
Here are the people on the second floor of Starbucks trying to get a better view of the scramble for Instagram:
Here is a short video of a busker and more shots:
It was such a busy day I am going to put the rest in another post.