Shibuya's youth hub around Center Gai and PARCO, slopes and back lanes, and a residential stretch further east
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Shibuya Station sits at the bottom of a narrow north-south valley along the Yamanote Line. Streets radiate out from the station, with many slopes and one-way alleys, so even widening the roads is difficult. Udagawa-cho has Center Gai, a pedestrian-only street popular with young people, plus PARCO and Loft.
Office buildings and mixed-use buildings are concentrated around Shibuya Station and along Meiji-dori, which is a commercial area. Further east, the district called Higashi, to which Higashi 1-chome belongs, is mostly residential across the whole area.
Of the 10,221 people living in this neighborhood, about 60% are concentrated in Higashi 1-chome, Shibuya 1-chome, and Sakuragaoka-cho combined. Nearly three-quarters of households are single-person households, higher than the Shibuya City average; but owner-occupied homes also make up over 40%, slightly higher than the City as a whole.
Daily shopping ranks 25th out of 395 Tokyo neighborhoods, the highest ranking of any category for this neighborhood. From our street photos, the buildings also rank 43rd.
There's a walking path along the Shibuya River. The river used to have little water and smelled like a sewer, but when Shibuya Stream was developed, recycled water was used to bring the flow back. From Shibuya Stream down to the bridge downstream, a riverside walkway called Shibuya River Street was built, and remnants of old railway structures still remain along the path.
This area is mainly commercial and office space; in 2020 about 76 people lived per hectare here, compared to about 161 for Shibuya City as a whole. In 2021, about 189,000 people worked here, 19 times the resident population. The four districts of Dogenzaka 1-chome, Dogenzaka 2-chome, Udagawa-cho, and Jinnan 1-chome together are home to only 1,969 people.
Shibuya Station opened in 1885. Udagawa-cho used to be mostly an ordinary residential neighborhood, and only gradually turned into mixed-use buildings, office buildings, and commercial facilities from the 1970s onward.
Sakuragaoka-cho took a different path: it used to be mostly single-family homes and small independently-owned shops, and apartments became more common starting in the 1980s. In July 2024, Shibuya Sakura Stage opened here; its B block is a 29-story building that also includes residential use.
The entire redevelopment project around Shibuya Station is now expected to be completed in fiscal year 2034, rather than the originally planned fiscal year 2027 — a delay of 7 years.
Compared with the 395 Tokyo neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
Hospitals with inpatient beds (2020 data), public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area, high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores. Many Tokyo junior high students attend private schools, so junior high catchments are only a guide.
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