Harajuku is a popular designation for the area around the JR Harajuku Station, Shibuya district, Tokyo. This region is known as a place young people gather. The location includes approximately Meiji Jingū, Yoyogi Park, shopping Takeshita Street (Takeshita-dori), Departement store Laforet, and the National Yoyogi Gymnasium. Harajuku is not a formal name for the place, and not included when writing the address.
Around 1980, Harajuku is the place of the subkultur Takenoko-zoku. Until this day, groups of young people dressed in strange area can be found in Harajuku. In addition, school children from different corners of the Japanese Harajuku often include as objectives of the study tour during a visit to Tokyo.
Actually called "Harajuku" is used only for the area north of Omotesando. Onden is the name of the area on the south side of Omotesando, but the name is not popular and is called Harajuku participate.
They usually wear fashionably unique clothes. Ranging from gothic style, hip hop, punk, to the style of anime character. The specialty of Harajuku style lies on its glamorous beads, harmonizing dark and bright theme, and melting the feminine and masculine element, both from its style as well as the function. The style is actually divided into various styles such as Lolita, Kogal, Gongaru, Cosplay (costume play), Yamanba, and many more.
The extreme costume from Harajuku is also supported by the extreme of make up and hairstyle. The Harajuku hair style is actually extreme, glamorous, and eye catching. To apply harajuku hair, you should razor your hair, make it wild, let the hair down, & dye your hair (usually with bright color) like the pictures below.
