Skyscrapers, gardens and bar alleys
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Shinjuku is a city within the city: office towers, department stores, Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden and, east of the station, the alleys of Omoide Yokocho and Golden Gai, packed with tiny bars and yakitori counters.
A post town on the Kōshū road in the Edo period, Shinjuku became a major railway hub in the 20th century. After 1945 a black market grew up by the station; its shacks became the alleys of Omoide Yokocho. The west side filled with skyscrapers from the 1970s.
