Tokyo Taxi at a Kabukichō Street Crossing

Tokyo taxi at a Shinjuku Kabukichō crossing beside pedestrians and bright restaurant signs
A Tokyo taxi waits at a crossing in Kabukichō, the entertainment district of Shinjuku known for its dense concentration of restaurants, bars, and late-night businesses. The area around Yasukuni-dōri and Shinjuku Station’s east side has long been one of Tokyo’s busiest pedestrian zones, with a mix of small eateries, electronics resellers, and long-established cafés occupying the mid-rise commercial blocks. The green-and-yellow taxi livery seen here is one of Tokyo’s standard color schemes, used by several of the city’s major cab companies since the late twentieth century. The surrounding storefronts reflect Kabukichō’s layered commercial history, where postwar restaurants, national chains, and contemporary pop-culture signage coexist within the same streetscape.
Photo taken in March 2023.
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