I think the city should ban costumes during Halloween." On a positive note, there were volunteers in Shibuya the next morning cleaning up the streets. Volunteers were walking around streets with ...

Instead, he asked young people, who in past years have packed Shibuya streets while dressed in costumes and partied all night, to attend the ward-sponsored online Halloween events. In recent years ...

Halloween has apparently gained equal ... A large crowd of people wearing costumes gathered in front of Shibuya Station on Saturday night. Many cases of trouble were reported.

In Shibuya Ward, which enacted Halloween regulations earlier than ... After 6 p.m., the number of young people and foreigners in costumes gradually increased in front of Shibuya Station and ...

Halloween celebrations by cosplayers were subdued at Tokyo's Shibuya district on Saturday ... but there were few people gathering to show off their costumes. Earlier this month, a revised ordinance to ...

Last year was the first Halloween since COVID-19 was downgraded to category 5 under Japan's infectious disease control law.

pointing out there were now noticeably less people in costume. Rilana De Haas, 28, of the Netherlands, said, "I wanted to celebrate Halloween in Tokyo this year, but not Shibuya because it's too ...

Halloween has become a global phenomenon involving parades, costumes and trick or treating ... In Tokyo, young locals and tourists gather in Shibuya and Shinjuku every 31 October to show off ...