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8 unusual facts about Shinjuku


Alleycat Rock: Female Boss

Tough girl biker Ako (pop singer Akiko Wada) comes across Mei (Meiko Kaji) and her girl gang (the Alleycats/Stray Cats) as they are about to have a knife fight in Shinjuku, Tokyo with another gang of girls.

Doberman Deka

The burned remains of a young woman discovered in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

GetBackers

The duo operates a freelance repossession service out of one of the seedier areas of Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Kei Cozzolino

Kei Cozzolino (Ichigaya, Shinjuku, Tokyo, November 9, 1987) is Japanese-Italian racing driver who races under an Italian licence.

NTT InterCommunication Center

NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) is a media art gallery in Tokyo Opera City Tower in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

Okamoto's

Okamoto's is a psychedelic garage rock band made up of four 19-year-olds from Shinjuku, Tokyo, who first got together while still in middle school.

PINK de Thierry

In 1992's Direction Arcadia, under a road sign pointing to アルカヂア (Arcadia) MWC was stranded with their luggage at a crowded intersection in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Yodobashi, Tokyo

In 1947, along with Yotsuya ward and another town, became part of present day Shinjuku ward.


Bunka Fashion College

The main campus in Shinjuku is about an 8-minute walk from JR Shinjuku Station and about a 3-minute walk from the #6 exit of the Toei Shinjuku subway station.

Ikebukuro Station

The latter line runs south toward Shinjuku and Shibuya along Meiji-dori, and offers through services to Motomachi-Chūkagai Station in Yokohama via the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line and Minatomirai Line.

Institute for Laser Science

By car: Chuo highway, Exit "Chofu", (toward Shinjuku), one block East by road 20, then left (North) at the first traffic signal, then first right through "Nishi-mon" (West gate).

London Borough of Lambeth

Lambeth also has twinning arrangements with Bluefields in Nicaragua; Moskvoretsky in Russia (although this is abeyance since changes to the city government of Moscow); Brooklyn, New York in the United States; Shinjuku in Japan; and Spanish Town in Jamaica.

Odakyu 20000 series RSE

On weekends, some trains operated between Shinjuku Station and Hakone-Yumoto Station.

Shibuya, Tokyo

Saikyō Line, Shōnan-Shinjuku Line: Shinjuku (the part south of Kōshū Kaidō, including the New South Entrance, is in Shibuya), Shibuya, Ebisu

Takanori Arisawa

In 1980, Arisawa's song "Shinjuku Transfer" was recorded by the chorus group SOAP for Epic/Sony Records.


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