Officials in Shibuya Ward, where young people had been coming to celebrate Halloween for years, publicly asked people not to party in the ... in front of Shibuya Station stating, “No Events ...

“Shibuya streets are not party venues for Halloween,” Mayor Ken Hasebe said ... The intersection by Shibuya’s train station, which is known as “scramble crossing” due to the large ...

Shibuya crossing on the night of Halloween. Last year's trouble Last year, a group of youths flipped a small truck in front of the station the weekend before Halloween.

On Halloween last year, there were more than 16,000 people around Shibuya Station at 11PM, according to the location data of mobile phones. At 2AM, nearly 10,000 people still remained, even after ...