Kabukicho (Tokyo) | neighbourhood

Japan / Tokio / Tokyo
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Maybe the most notorious entertainment district in Tokyo. Amply supplied with soaplands, love hotels, hostess bars, cabarets, and image clubs (imakura.) Non-Japanese are very much not-welcome in most of the places which deal in quasi-legal sexual services, and there are rip-off joints, but even a gaijin shouldn't get into too much trouble here unless he (or she) looks very hard to find it. The name comes from a proposal to build the national Kabuki theater here after the war (when more than half of Tokyo was ashes and/or rubble). That didn't happen, but this quite tiny neighborhood kept the name.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabukichō,_Tokyo
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Coordinates:   35°41'43"N   139°42'13"E
This article was last modified 12 years ago