On the equally attractive Piazza San Lorenzo, the Palazzo Papale has an impressive 13th-century Gothic loggia, opposite the Cathedral's intriguing mixture of Gothic campanile (bell tower) and Renaissance facade with Romanesque interior.
There is a mix of Gothic and Renaissance architecture in the Cathedral.
East Shinjuku is really two a daytime quarter of department stores, vertical malls, and discount stores, and a nighttime quarter of bars (straight and gay), cheap restaurants, strip joints, game parlors, jazz clubs, rooms-by-the-hour hotels, raves, and honky-tonks most of the latter in a seedy, neon-lit neighborhood called Kabuki-cho.