Center-gai by McDonald's

A pedestrian artery of Shibuya

Center-gai (センター街) is the central pedestrian street that links Shibuya Station to the surrounding shopping district. It is permanently closed to most traffic, so the frame fills with shoppers, students and tourists threading between storefronts. This vantage point looks down the street from the McDonald's corner, a long-standing landmark used by locals as a meeting spot.

Neon, fashion and youth culture

The walls of the street are stacked with illuminated signage — karaoke parlours, drugstores, fashion boutiques, ramen counters and game arcades. Center-gai is widely regarded as a barometer of Japanese youth and street fashion, and its dense, colorful shopfronts make it instantly recognizable as part of Tokyo's Shibuya district.

An AI pedestrian counter

The feed overlays a real-time pedestrian count generated by an AI vision system, reporting how many people are passing and the running daily total. It turns an ordinary street camera into a small window onto the sheer density of human movement through one of the world's busiest urban neighborhoods.

What you can watch

Expect a constant flow of foot traffic, delivery activity, and the glow of commercial signage. As an always-on view of a fixed Shibuya streetscape, it captures the everyday rhythm of one of Tokyo's most visited shopping and entertainment hubs.