Ahead of this year’s Halloween weekend, Tokyo’s busy shopping, business and entertainment district of Shibuya is trying hard to shoo away visitors
A giant public notice banner from Shibuya district, which reads in Japanese"Shibuya is not Halloween event"is seen at the Shibuya pedestrian crossing Friday, Oct. 27, 2023, in Tokyo. Ahead of this year's Halloween weekend, Tokyo's busy shopping, business and entertainment district of Shibuya is trying hard to shoo away visitors.
Fear that a large number of partygoers and tourists across Japan and the world following the COVID-19 pandemic could cause a disaster similar to last year's fatal crowd crush in South Korea's capital, Seoul, has been running high. That started changing when the crowd size grew, clogging up back streets and triggering safety concerns. Hasebe said he started fearing a disaster even years before the fatal crush in the Itaewon area of Seoul last year that killed about 160 people. In recent years, the majority of the people in Shibuya during Halloween were gathering just for drinking and partying on the street, triggering vandalism, massive littering and noise.
About 40,000 people gathered in the area in 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic. The number decreased during the pandemic, but Shibuya's streets were packed again on Halloween last year, and city authorities fear this year's turnout could be higher, with a significant increase of foreign tourists adding to the crowd.
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