New Year’s Eve celebrations around Shibuya Crossing started back in 2016. In 2018, a whopping total of 120,000 people were ...

Things are less celebratory these days, though, as after telling people to stay away from the area on Halloween, Shibuya Ward ...

As the Western festival caught on in Japan, a trend developed ... banned street drinking in the area by Shibuya Station around Halloween and the New Year period. Despite the ordinance, there ...

Officials say Shibuya is the only ward in Tokyo that has an ordinance banning alcohol consumption on the streets, but it applies only during Halloween and New Year ... first in Japan to target ...