My visit to Tokyo 2018 (16)

On the 30th I visited Shinjuku (新宿) by Metro. According to the Tokyo Travel Guide Shinjuku metro station is surrounded by many electronic stores thay offer lots of choices in buying electronic equipment including personal computers.

 

Shinjuku shopping district

There are also a lot of traditional shops and department stores such as the Isetan (伊勢丹)  which is located at the east exit. At the underground, the Metro is connected to many food stores that offers different variety of food items such as Japanese and western sweets, prepared dishes lunches boxes etc. At the underground, one can walk from the metro station to the Isetan Department Store easily.

Isetan Department Store

The Isetan department store is accommodated in a building of its own with different sales focus on each floor. In the basement of the Isetan building is the food section. In this food section, beside fresh vegetable and dry food, customers can buy seafood, and some of them are swimming inside a transparent water tank. On the ground level of Isetan there is a huge area that promotes cosmetic and health care products. The building’s top floor is a restaurant area and a food corner. There are different types of restaurants, including western style, Chinese style and Japanese style. The building roof is a sitting area which customers can sit down to enjoy their take-away food.

At the west exist of the Shinjuku metro there is a twin-tower government building (東京都庁舎). This government building attracts tourists for two reasons: on the ground floor of the number one building there is the Tokyo Metropolitan traveling information center (東京都觀光情報センター). Tourists will find it very useful as there are a lot of information sheet and booklets for tourists to read and take away. On its 45th floor there is the north and south observation deck (北展望室.南展望室). 

Government building information

The Government Twin-tower building

A view from the 45th floor

The observation deck is 202 meters above ground level. It is open to the public to enjoy a panoramic view of the city free. If the weather is good one can look to the west to see Mount. Fuji at a distance. On this floor there are also souvenir shops and a restaurant. This observation deck is popular and always there is a queue waiting for the elevator to bring tourists up to the deck. A simple security check is done on tourists before they are allowed to enter the elevator.

Tourists line up for security check and the elevator

The restaurant on the 45th floor