Shinjuku Golden town

The bar town with the atmosphere of the open town in the market which is left just as it is after the war is Shinjuku Golden town. It exists in the area which was put in Shinjuku Ward government office and the flower garden shrine. It was bustling as the "blue line" zone until it received a moving direction in the bar town by the dancing stage in 1949 and it was moved to the present Kabuki-cho 1-chome and it was the beginning and prostitution prohibitive mood in 1958 was established. After that, it says that it started over again as the bar and the area with which the bar ranges by the abolition of the blue line and that the name, Golden town, was born around 1965. It is a shop with the being of about 200 in the prime but now, it becomes about 150.
Generally, the area which is called Shinjuku Golden town consists of "the flower garden town" by "Shinjuku Golden town" and Shinjuku Sanko shopping district promotion association in the north side by Shinjuku Golden town business association in the south side. Six thin roads are running to the spitting, a becoming tenement house at one building is closely built and about 4 shops stand in line. Formerly, it is the town to be fearful of which the waster and the gang dominate and habitue only one. There were images such as the bar town, but recently, there is a place where the young person is managing a shop, too, and it sometimes advances in the alternation of generations, too, too, and it retrieves life little by little. It is the place where the people to pretend to do a writer and to do a man of culture of deepened a discussion as the habitue.
We still in this area which will bustle when becoming at night send a state at noon before the clamorousness.

The mapping The small shop stands in a row.
The north side (the blue color) is a flower garden town. The south side (the red type) is Shinjuku Golden town.

This is a flower garden town. The atmosphere of which either is the same with the look
Only, in the flower garden town, the length of the tenement house building is longer.
About 8 shops become one building.

The area where such a narrow alley can be seen in Tokyo
It decreased. To be in preventing disasters will be a problem but is ···..

This is doing central control? "The fire reception place".
It seems that it is the system to tell about by lumping together a fire report from each shop.

It takes a photograph from the northern end in the flower garden town.
The vacant land which changed into the parking lot by the place giving in bubble period spreads next.

An esplanade in "the route in the four seasons" is serviced from the intersection as Yasukuni.
The place where the track of the metropolitan streetcar was running formerly here
Before, it will be possible to have heard the running "YUKU" sound of the metropolitan streetcar in the reverse at the shop.
It is easy to go when entering from this place to Golden town.

The alley which is between the tenement house and the tenement house
It is in barely the width that it passes each other.