Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Tuesday began requiring rental go-kart service operators to register with it when they set up ...

Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward plans to extend its ban on drinking on the streets to cover the entire year, while Shinjuku Ward is taking its first measures to deal with crowds of Halloween revelers.

Tokyo’s Shibuya, Shinjuku wards crack down on street drinking. June 5, 2024. Outdoor booze ban in effect near Shibuya Station for Halloween. October 22, 2021.

While Shibuya's pre-pandemic Halloween crowds peaked at about 40,000 in 2019, authorities have been bracing for as many as 60,000 people to show up this month, Hasebe said. As much as 70% of the ...

A same-sex partnership system in Japan first introduced by Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in 2015 is now available to 92.5 percent of ...

A ban on informal Halloween street gatherings didn't keep many costumed revelers away from Tokyo's Shibuya ward on Oct. 31, 2023. (Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars and Stripes) ...

TOKYO, April 5 (Reuters) - Along with taking in temples and cherry blossoms, Tokyo visitors can now join a curated pilgrimage of the city's more modern wonders: its public toilets.

Shibuya Ward in Tokyo plans to enact an ordinance banning street drinking all year-round from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. The ward has already placed restrictions on street drinking for Halloween and New Year's ...

Tokyo olice have arrested a group of six persons connected to a bar in Shibuya Ward who are suspected of misusing dating apps ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Tuesday began requiring rental go-kart service operators to register with it when they set up business in the area amid public complaints about the vehicles.