New Year’s Eve celebrations around Shibuya Crossing started back in 2016. In 2018, a whopping total of 120,000 people were ...

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Costumed revelers crowded into Tokyo’s most popular downtown areas on Halloween on Oct. 31, much to the consternation of officials, who feared that littering and disruptive behavior would follow.

Officials say Shibuya is the only ward in Tokyo that has an ordinance banning alcohol consumption on the streets, but it applies only during Halloween and New Year’s Eve. The ward discovered ...

introducing a “Halloween ordinance” the following year that banned street drinking in the area by Shibuya Station around Halloween and the New Year period. Despite the ordinance, there was ...

Halloween adds a new brick to this wall of restrictions ... Some neighbors explain that in previous years, Halloween parties on public streets were so large that it took almost an hour to cross ...

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Even though Halloween is a new holiday in Japan ... even had to issue a ban on public drinking in Shibuya in late October since the street parties had been turning rather wild in the previous years.