The festival located at the Old Train Station Plaza in David Remez Square, about a mile southwest of the Old City is essentially a smaller version of the spectacular Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival, which has been bringing visitors to the north of China for 27 years.

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But for a person's name to become a part of a subway station, it must become a geographic feature street, plaza or building first.

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Above the famous intersection outside Shibuya station, where throngs converge and cross from the Hachiko dog stature plaza toward Dogenzaka and Center Street, the huge television panels are back to advertising the latest youth bands and youth market products.

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