Shibuya Scramble Crossing

Commonly known as Shibuya Crossing, is a popular pedestrian scramble crossing in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. 

It is located in front of the Shibuya Station.

 

The statue of Hachikō, between the station and the intersection, is a common meeting place, which is almost always crowded.

 

Shibuya Crossing is the world’s busiest pedestrian crossing, with as many as 3,000 people crossing at a time.

 

Tokyo-based architecture professor Shane Flynn said Shibuya Crossing is "a great example of what Tokyo does best when it's not trying".

 

A 2014 flow measurement survey by the Shibuya Redevelopment Association estimated 260,000 pedestrians per day on week days, and 390,000 pedestrians on non-working days.

 

The crossing was inaugurated in 1973.

 

It was featured in the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony to promote the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

 

Contemporary British painter Carl Randall (who spent 10 years living in Tokyo as an artist) depicted the area in his large artwork Shibuya, exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London 2013.