Since after the war, Shibuya, which has continued to rapidly change with the youth culture. But, in fact, to its back, it left unknown history, adult spot that does not think even over has scattered. Play an active role as the authority of the youth culture and Tokyo customs, the columnist of Izumi Asajin's, which is likely overlooked with, I had told the deep charm in Shibuya realistic.

70s that had been leading the people as a sacred place of fashion

- Please tell us about the involvement of Izumi and Shibuya

As home was Ochiai in Shinjuku-ku, Shinjuku was the home ground until junior high school, but because high school was a station along TOKYU TOYOKO LINE , Shibuya was naturally close to nature, with the opportunity to enter high school. It has become. Shibuya Station is a transfer point for going to and from school, and a friend often lived in Shibuya area, so I used to visit there around 72-73. Speaking of the accumulation place of those days, it is Miyamasuka area border. I used to go to cafes like Dandelion, Jannan, Goodman, Elsid and so on. From that time, there was a Jawaso called "Song House" at the corner of the building where Shibuya Bowling, the bowling alley in Miyamasuka Sakashita, still remains. I was quietly stopped by the school rules, so there was a store downstairs in the bowling alley, and the sound of the ball rolling through the ceiling from the ceiling (laughs). I remember that I could not concentrate at all because I was worried about the noise even during the mahjong. If you think about it now, you can say that this messy feeling is a space like Shibuya at that time.

- But it is time that has been attracting attention as a holy place of fashion?

Well, 73 years, at the time of the second-year high school, Koen-dori has been established, now haunt also around that. In time surfer fashion heyday, I or align the clothes surfer brand has entered the building that Rikabiru next to the Parco. 1960s Seibu, the 1970s Parco is, have been with the fashion of the Holy Land, because I also it around just Toka girl line-of-sight is a concern, because shopping in Shibuya neighborhood was classic. In the previous still capable of 109, now the location of the "prime" of "Midoriya", is there was a shopping building which has been a fashionable but, in one section of remnants of love letter alley of the back alley at that time, Aloha it was there is a shop selling clothes of Toka Haraisage. Bargain is a fine, is to stop by Flat in something after school I had also or ransacked. Then also the vicinity of Koen-dori and Fire Street, but it had begun to function as a trend place of origin from this time. Not only to me, at that time, I think that fashion was a factor that had led the people in this town.

Feel the charm Welcome to the old-fashioned vestiges remain "Urabure was Shibuya"

- About Shibuya of change in recent years, in particular the place to be worried about?

The biggest surprise is that the center town has become a street for young people. This is a phenomenon from the beginning of the 80's, and that area has changed rapidly since the appearance of the behavior of the teamer. In the image of our generation, the center town has only the impression that it is a place for office workers to relax, with old-fashioned bar houses. Recently, the city itself has also changed significantly, but still that's how old Shibuya is. The Tokyu Bunka Kaikan has been closed even in front of the Higashiguchi Station, but the GINZA LINE has entered and there is an elevated line of the Toyoko Line, a landscape of that station front or an oval pattern on the outer wall of the Home of the Toyoko Line It's the same as the scene that appears in a movie about 40 years ago, or the cluttered atmosphere of the station square. I am attracted to the so-called “Uru-Shibuya” where such old-fashioned image remains, and I like to wander around such places. So every time I visit Shibuya, I'm looking for an alley or store that shows Showa's Katagaki, not the latest spot.

- Please tell me the spot where specifically Izumi feel attractive.

It is First "Nonbei Alley". Yet Shibuya center, there is a old-fashioned emotional, and or there is a shop that come are still guitar sink uncle, It is fun to set foot in the alley that unique atmosphere drifts. Then, if there is a small alley, which also Sakuragaoka neighborhood has become the bar district, located in the corner, also bar you have a famous master of the playing talking with ukulele my favorite. After, it has also remained old-fashioned well-established store of hundred hotels shop around. Among them, the "classic cafe Lion," "Murugi curry" is returnable wear of 20 years store. "Lion" is but some from before the war, it is because had become the description of looking at the old map "Lion Bakery", maybe once maybe was a bakery. And seemed was burned down in an air raid during the war, in the open again its current form in 1940s, it has been left to the modern as traditional orthodox net cafe. In the cluttered shop is large area, over time also forget, is slowly relaxing rare space alone. The same generation of office workers and middle-aged men and I will often see also figure that is used by one person. Several times a day, with or doing a classic record concert, we definitely get on well with the reading and writing activities are listening to music in the cup of coffee. I think I'm also good old castle just like the appearance of Europe. There is the end of the street to the store of the back door of the alley that is a dead end, it was like the door of the secret, it was or tickled the adventure. On the other hand, in the "Murugi curry" is famous around here, pyramid type of curry is anyway innovative when first day, was left in storage along with the taste. I went to eat from time to time even now, but does not enter the store, while the key of fragrant curry smell, will be satisfied just look at the appearance of the early Showa era of good old shop. After that, I was reminded in the curry, along Meiji street, which is also also "need by drinking" curry specialty store are old, still around shops of wooden building, the store that I have passed through from student days. And was also a taste of the individual curry rice and Ebimeshi so to speak youth, every time you eat still, it revived memories of the time is suddenly.

"Classic cafe Lion"