Shibuya Halloween: Preventing Crowds and Ensuring Safety in Tokyo’s Carnival Celebration

2023-10-28 05:37:30

A large number of carnival crowds gather around Shibuya Station in Tokyo, Japan every time before and following Halloween. On the weekend before Halloween officially begins, the Shibuya District Office in Tokyo, Japan, in order to avoid pushing accidents and drinking and causing trouble, except In addition to the ban on alcohol and other related measures that started on the evening of the 27th, the area around the “Hachiko Statue” was even rarely sealed early today (28th) to prevent crowds from gathering.

This year, the Japanese government put up a giant banner prohibiting Halloween events in Shibuya District to prevent mass gatherings from causing disasters. (Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)

Shibuya Ward Ken Hasebe went to the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan (FCCJ) in early October to hold a press conference to appeal to the world, “I hope everyone will not go around Shibuya Station for Halloween” because of the risk of pushing accidents. Hasebe Ken has recently announced relevant preventive measures, including banning people from drinking on roads near Shibuya Station or in public places such as parks from October 27 to November 1 in accordance with existing autonomy regulations.

Regarding today and Halloween, when the crowds are likely to be the most crowded, the Shibuya City Office also calls on convenience stores and other stores located in areas where road drinking is restricted to cooperate in not selling alcohol; the Shibuya City Office will also arrange a hundred people near Shibuya Station. A large number of security personnel were on hand to guide people to keep moving and not to stay.

In order to avoid pushing accidents and drinking and causing trouble on Halloween, the Shibuya District Office in Tokyo, Japan, rarely blocked the area around the “Hachiko Statue” early on the 28th to prevent crowds from gathering. (File photo/Keith Tsuji/Getty Images)

Japan’s “Yomiuri Shimbun” reported that the area around the Hachiko Statue in front of JR Shibuya Station, which has always been a meeting place for people to meet, has been cordoned off from the morning of today (28th), and the blockade will last until the morning of November 1st. The purpose is to avoid pushing accidents when people gather here. This is the first time the Shibuya District Office has adopted lockdown measures following the serious pushing accident in Itaewon in South Korea in 2022.

TBS TV station reported that the person in charge of the Shibuya City Office called on everyone to cooperate not to stay in front of Shibuya Station or on the streets of Shibuya to prevent accidents.

This year’s Halloween is the first Halloween since the Japanese government downgraded COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) to a Category 5 infectious disease (classification under Japan’s Infectious Diseases Act, equivalent to general influenza), Shibuya-ku The public office believes that there is a risk that more serious incidents will occur on Halloween than in previous years, and decided to increase vigilance.

Editor: Qin Yingwen

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