Shinjuku:Tokyo's New Center:-
Shinjuku is located five to six kilometers from the center of the city and has recently emerged as its own commercial nucleus. Shinjuku's train station is already the busiest in the city, handling more than 3 million passengers a day. Due to the rapid urbanization of the center, real estate prices have increased tremendously forcing development of new centers like Shinjuku. It is also known to have Tokyo's best entertainment district and has been recently allocated the new government headquarters of Tokyo Metropolis. The new-found centrality of Shinjuku is part and parcel of a grand strategy in Tokyo, which has been the planners goals to develop Tokyo as a multi-nodal city. This would relieve the present CBD of some of its congestion and ease the burden of commuting for long distance train riders by growth of commercial centers closer to the residences of the Tokyoites.

The Underside of Tokyo: Sanya:-
The area in Tokyo called Sanya (name written in Chinese characters for "mountain,") is the closest equivalent to a slum. This area of the city is so segregated that no one goes to this ward, except the people who work  and live here. It is considered the 'underside of Tokyo', a place inhabited by a large fraction of cast-offs of society and are ignored by urban society. Most maps of Tokyo too avoid the mentioning or location of this area. It is an area inhabited by about 45,000 people, and amongst them 7,000 live in flop houses. Most of the occupants are men, and majority of them are middle-aged or older, and many of them are a drifting population. Sanya is ignored by the developers and planners  while social and urban problems continue to mount in this area. Click here for a photo-essay on the homeless in Tokyo.