The Shibuya Neighborhood - Tokyo

Neighborhood is the continuetion of every home. Which neighborhood has its own life, own style, own people. Neighborhood is a kind of a small city, that just goes fews streets around your home.

In many contries people lifes are just inside their neighborhoods, they do the grocery there, they work around there, their friends live all in the same area, their kids study in the school in the neighborhood. This often happens in metropolitan cities, because of the dificulty of transportation or because of the huge car traffic or also because of safety reasons, but almost always because it is much more convinient have your whole life set in just one place.

This week, I had the great opportunity to experience the real japanese neighborhood life style inside Tokyo city. The Shibuya area is one of the most alive and exciting areas of Tokyo and also the most famous one. But inside this "crazy" neighborhood are many japanese family lifes. As what can be noted,　the people there are weath family, almost all of those family lives in "big" houses, what is rare in tokyo area because is really expensive, and have importated cars in their garages. Another thing that we can noted is that many members of the same family live around each others, same neighbors other in the street above, and their childrens always go to the same schools, they are friends of their next door neighbor and they also know the post office man, thats is always the same guy that does the deliveries, people who live in that area, lived in the same area since their childhood.

Living in Shibuya residencial area, doesnt seens like you are living in Tokyo and neitheir that your are living in the known Shibuya crazy center. Life there is really quiet, peacefull, easy, because you have everything around there, and you can have a really heath life there.