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No.137 Shibuya Hachiko


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Faithful dog Hachiko


In front of Shibuya Hachiko, it is a too, too, famous waiting place. When becoming the evening on the weekend, the throng which doesn't overflow only is made and is the place which is troubled in 1 to search for the partner, too. Therefore, when specifying waiting, it is the one of the " smoking area. It is bad when on it on the stairs of Hanzoumon line ( (garden city Garden) ) not specifying the more minute place soon in front of " and them in front of Hachiko.
There seemed to be much, too, someone with the info but faithful dog Hachiko was born in 1923 Akita Prefecture. but bred by Ueno Eizaburo who was the doctor of the agricultural engineering with the Akita dog , It is the one which a statue was made for with a true story to have continued to wait for 7 years of return of the teacher every day in front of Shibuya station there being from teacher's passing away and this making an impression on the people. Moreover, the photograph of the pattern that this statue is made when Hachiko lives and that an unveiling ceremony is done in the immediateness of Hachiko is left. Because a statue has been built while living, it is a great dog. Because to have been removed by metal collection —ß during the wartime, a statue in now was reconstructed in 1948. Hachiko closed a lifetime at 11 years old in March, 1935, but dividing ashes is buried next to the grave of the Ueno teacher who is a husband (Aoyama cemetery) and Hachiko's body is preserved at the science museum in Ueno as the stuffed animal.


The plaza in front of Hachiko
It is crowed big when becoming the evening
(Hachiko can be seen in this small !).


Now, it was possible to have done a smoking area, too.


The plaza in front of Hachiko


It sees a scramble intersection and center town area.


The waiting ways such as "the 5th paragraph from under the subway stairs", too, are ···.


The scenery which can be seen by getting off the JR line first


Actually, there is a statue of such peace, too.


It is another waiting place "The moai image".
It is on the opposite side to have put in Keio Inokashira line with the front of Hachiko.



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