Shibuya Station's Free Rest Lounge

Above, Shibuya Station. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

If you find yourself wandering around Shibuya in Tokyo and need to unwind for a while, there is a new (and free) lounge below Shibuya Station you can go to.

Here's what Tokyo Cheapo says about it:

Earlier this year Tokyu opened the Shibuya Chikamichi Lounge underneath Shibuya Station. The space is a bit hard to define (information portal? rest stop?), though we think it’s pretty typical of the kind of consumer spaces you often find in Japan. After all, in Shibuya Center Gai there is also the Blue Windy Lounge “smoking room” sponsored by a tobacco company, and other stations around the city feature special spaces for women to get massages and beauty treatment. 

Shibuya Chikamichi (“underground street”) Lounge has toilets and baby room facilities but it’s more than just an amenity. It has a women-only “powder room” and a men-only “dressing room” (this is Shibuya, the men like to look their best too), though be warned the wifi in the main lounge is “fake wifi”, i.e. only a booster for certain domestic network providers.

The lounge is open from 10:00 to 20:00.

For more information, with plenty of photos, go here.