Harajuku
Tokyo's place for the "alternates". Given Japan's structured society they even have the place where its ok to be different in a well defined way arghhhh
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rlz=1T4WZPA_en___AU232&resnum=0&q=harajuku&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
and for the "overview"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harajuku
This is in response to discussion at the "last cigarette party"