Until the mid-2000s, Omotesando, Harajuku's main thoroughfare, was closed to automobile traffic on Sundays, creating a "hodosha tengoku" ("pedestrian paradise") where bands could busk and fashionable youth could strut their stuff. Starting at the end of the 80's with the Band Boom (Buck-Tick's generation), the neighborhood became heavily associated with the visual kei movement, and was home not only to many visual kei oriented clothing and record stores, but also to hordes of visual kei cosplayers, who would congregate on Sundays on the Meiji-Jingu bridge, next to Harajuku station, to spend the day preening and posing for passersby. In the 80's, Harajuku was associated with the rockabilly, punk rock and gothic subcultures. Note on the title: Harajuku is a neighborhood in central Tokyo that has been famous since the 1970's as a hotbed of fashion and youth culture.
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