"Omoide Yokocho(recollections alley)" in the Shinjuku west entrance is called "Shoben Yokocho(pee alley)."
"Omoide Yokocho" was born after World War II as a market where a stall stands in a row around the Shinjuku station. Since a public lavatory was not installed in the market, it is said that it became the cause called "Shoben yokocho(pee alley)." (The public lavatory is installed now.)
Although the "Omoide Yokocho" was lost by incendiarism in 1999, it revives now and became the rows of houses which were alike before disappearing.
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