Japan Travel Tokyo - Omoide Yokocho 思い出横丁 (Tokyo Memory Lane) 回忆横丁

Japan Travel Tokyo - Omoide Yokocho 思い出横丁 (Tokyo Memory Lane) 回忆横丁 (2016 0422) 

Address: 1 Nishi Shinjuku, Shinjuku City Tokyo, 160-0023 Japan

Getting There:

a five-minute walk from JR Line, Odakyu Line, Keio Line,Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line Shinjuku station West Exit (新宿西口)

 

This area, known as Omoide Yokocho (“Memory Lane”), started out as a black market in the late 1940s after World War II. The strip was also known for cheap drinks and grilled skewers of yakitori. The area’s many watering holes and lack of public restrooms earned it the nickname “piss alley,” as inebriated patrons would relieve themselves in the street.