The park is sandwiched between the government bureaucracies of Shinjuku, (home of our hotel) and the crazed consumer culture of Harajuku, Aoyama and Shibuya. Harajuku is ground zero for Tokyo shopping and crazy people watching, and this area is highly recommended over the boring but more famous Ginza shopping strip. The main street, Omotesando, is a great walking street lined with unique shops and interesting cafes, all very expensive but also very engaging. The most fun, though, is watching the Harajuku younger crowd parading about, mostly congregating toward the park part of the street. They go to elaborate lengths to dress up in a completely unique take on fashion. When we were there, the barbie doll look was going strong (bright bleached hair, liberal use of fake tan to give skin an orange glow, and enough makeup to put Tammy Faye Bakker to shame. But there was a heavy goth/punk undercurrent as well, and a surprising number of girls dressed up in formal French chambermaid outfits. Add in a good sprinkling of wedding gowns and nurses outfits and you get the idea. These fashion trends change every couple of weeks, so I have no idea what you'll see now, but I'm sure it will be unique. And the whole thing is so hard to fathom. In the west, a punk dresses as a punk to make some statement, and cops an attitude to go along with the clothes. Here it seemed entirely skin deep and had no purpose other than to entertain themselves. You'll see the biggest activity here is various dressed to impressed teens taking pictures of each other, presumably to copy their looks next week. All very strange and entertaining.