The New Year’s Eve countdown event at Shibuya’s scramble crossing, a hugely popular tourist spot in Tokyo, has been canceled for the fifth consecutive year. The decision was made by the event ...

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With that in mind, Shibuya will not be hosting any celebrations to ring in the 2025 New Year, either. As reported by the Asahi Shimbun, Shibuya ward has stated that it will not be hosting an ...

Things are less celebratory these days, though, as after telling people to stay away from the area on Halloween, Shibuya Ward says it’s not going to be doing anything special for New Year’s Eve either ...

introducing a “Halloween ordinance” the following year that banned street drinking in the area by Shibuya Station around Halloween and the New Year period. Despite the ordinance, there was ...

Local complaints of drinking-related problems and trash led Shibuya in 2019 to ban street drinking in the Halloween period, as well as the year-end and New Year holidays. However, faced with ...