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No.60 A change at Ikebukuro station west entrance

(It is the Tokyo guide to introduce by the image and the column).

The metropolitan Ikebukuro art theater

As for the Ikebukuro station western exit, the state of the town was fairly transformed as much as this 10. but the former western exit was the place which the dark atmosphere in the black market times hangs over after the war with only in Tokyo which is left , It changed to the bright atmosphere that maximum counter area opening by Japan at Tobu department store, the opening of the Tokyo art theater, a park in front of the western exit station are provided with the chance and that gradually the person gathers with existing Marui in the practicing of Metropolitan Hotel of the JR East group to manage. but being the place where the image at the black market haunts after the war if saying Ikebukuro from the old days , In the sunshine 60 redevelopment in the Sugamo prison (the prison) vacant lot, the east exit became the town with life where the youngster gathers more busily to the chance and as for the western exit, the town with somehow sullen dark left atmosphere continued. Way, Ikebukuro was "mysterious mysterious Ikebukuro" which the western exit has Tobu department store in Seibu department store in the east exit.

It became the first chance of the transformation "The hotel metropolitan".


Tobu department store and the metropolitan plaza
It was transformed into the maximum floor space in Japan and it became the department store which is rich in the selection.


In front of the fountain plaza at the 1st floor metropolitan plazas
It is fixed as the waiting place in the western exit.
(If saying the western exit in the past, the front of multi- television at the Tobu department store basement was regular).


The western exit park in front of the station It becomes an eminent pick-up spot in the Metropolitan area.
··· to feel, too, which is dangerous slightly at night


It hosts an openair market, too.
(It seems that it is Ikebukuro of the place to be selling vegetables and so on).

This series is updated. It looks forward to the next time OBJ DO.

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