[1] It is located in front of the Shibuya Station Hachikō exit and stops vehicles in all directions to allow pedestrians to inundate the entire intersection.

Increasingly large and chaotic crowds led to Shibuya Ward adopting an ordinance in 2019 banning public alcohol consumption in the area around during periods at the end of October (Halloween) and December (New Year's Eve).

The iconic video screen featured in the above films, in particular Lost in Translation with its 'walking dinosaur' scene, was taken down for a period of time and replaced with static advertising, although it resumed operation in July 2013.

[22] Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers featured the area prominently in the music video for the song "Motorcycle Emptiness" from the album 'Generation Terrorists' in 1992.

[23][24] Contemporary British painter Carl Randall (who spent 10 years living in Tokyo as an artist) depicted the area in his large artwork 'Shibuya', exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London 2013.