DEFINISI HARAJUKU

Harajuku (原宿?) was popular name for a the area around JR Harajuku, Shibuya District, Tokyo. This area is famous as the the place young people gather. The location includes about Meiji, Yoyogi Park, shopping center Takeshita Street (Takeshita-dori), department store Laforet, and the Yoyogi National Gymnasium. Harajuku is not officially designation for a the name of the place, and the not be included when writing the address.

Around the 1980s, Harajuku is the place subculture Takenoko-Zoku. To this day, a group of young people dressed in strange can be found in the Harajuku district. In addition, school children from various corners in Japan often include Harajuku as destination tourism studies while visiting Tokyo.

Actually the term "Harajuku" is only used for a the area north Omotesando. Onden was the name of the area in south Omotesando, but the name was not popular and participate called Harajuku.
history
"Waterwheel in Onden" (from 36 Views of Mount Fuji Hokusai's work)

Before the Edo period, Harajuku is one of the City Inn (juku) for people who are traveling through the Main Street Kamakura. Tokugawa Ieyasu presented for Harajuku mastery of the province of Iga ninja who helped him escape from Sakai after the incident Honnōji.

In the Edo period, from the Iga ninja group set up headquarters in Harajuku for a protect Edo city because of its strategic location in the southern part of Main Street Koshu. Besides ninja, samurai class Bakushin also choose for a reside in Harajuku. Farmers plant rice on the banks of the Shibuya area, and the use a water mill for a grind rice or a make flour.

In the Meiji era, Harajuku built as an important area that connects the city of Tokyo with the the surrounding area. In 1906, JR Harajuku Station opened as sections of the expansion of the Yamanote train line. After that, Omotesando (the main road to the temple) was built in 1919 after the Meiji established.

After the opening of department stores in the 1970s, this area became the center of fashion. This area became famous throughout Japan after covered fashion magazine like Anan and the non-no. At that time, a group of girls called Annon-Zoku often found strolling in the Harajuku area. They imitate the fashion style clothing worn Anan magazine models and the non-no.

Around the 1980s, Takeshita Street became crowded because people want to see Takenoko-Zoku the strange dress and the dancing in the streets. Once established as a pedestrian area, this area became a favorite gathering place for young children. After Harajuku more crowded, a boutique that sells goods of famous brands began to appear in Omotesando around the 1990s.