"Omotesando" is one of the most fashionable streets in Tokyo, where high-end boutiques and shopping malls such as "Laforet Harajuku" and "Omotesando Hills" line side by side. "Sando" means sacred pathway to Shinto shrine, and "Omotesando" is originally the pathway to "Meiji Jingu," a shrine located only a minute away from the Harajuku station. And there is "Meiji-dori," the area's biggest street where large corporate apparel stores such as "TOP SHOP," "UNIQLO," "H&M," and "FOREVER 21" opened one after another in recent years. Harajuku is also known for the largest vegetation in all of Tokyo's 23 wards with "Meiji Jingu" and "Yoyogi Koen" in the area.