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Japan Tokyo Kabukicho

Tokyo’s red light district, Kabukicho, lies northeast of the Shinjuku station.It is called "Sleepless Town", the city that does not sleep, ever! In this place you can find the hostess clubs
,casinos, bars, hotels but also love theater and movies.
Kabukicho is an area of just 600 square metres, but it is, nevertheless, home to over 300 sex shops, nearly 200 clubs, 80 hotels, and hundreds of bars and restaurants. It is estimated that around 150,000 people pass through it each day.

The district's name comes from late-1940s plans to build a kabuki theater: although the theater was never built, the name stuck.

Japan’s Kabukicho comes to life only after six p.m, especially on Fridays and Saturdays.

Some of the bars are ramshackle looking places but they have long been tolerated as a place where (sexual) pleasure-seeking Japanese - and visitors - let off steam. Anyone expecting the sort of sex clubs found in American or European cities could be in for a surprise. Here are entire clubs populated by pretend nurses, govenesses, secretaries, dominatrices - everything is available in Kabukicho. Here also can be found "naked karaoke", life-size latex dolls (for the use of), a reconstructed train filled with short-skirted schoolgirls (guaranteed not to press charges) and even a giant tank outside of which businessmen in suits can watch naked girls swim underwater.

Many of Japan’s infamous yakuza and the Chinese Triads are to be found in this area, although they may be difficult to detect by foreigners and native Japanese alike.

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