Contact Admin. Kabukicho, Tokyo's red light district, is a neon-drenched enclave packed with sex shops, love hotels, pachinko parlours, and pleasure houses catering for both sexes. Its proximity to the railway station is the main reason for the proliferation of sex shops and clubs that started appearing in the 's. It caters not only to both sexes, but to all sorts of sexual fantasies and fetishes.
What Sort of Entertainment is on offer in Kabukicho? Kabukicho is an area of just square metres, but it is, nevertheless, home to over sex shops, nearly clubs, 80 hotels, and hundreds of bars and restaurants. It is estimated that around , people pass through it each day. Kabukicho got its name from the Kabuki theatre originally planned for the site, but eventually, plans for the theatre were abandoned.
When to Go and What to Do. People should beware of exhorbitant fees always non-negotiable and the fact that it is widely reported that the area is home to virtually every crime syndicate known to the police, including yakuza and triad gangs.
The Tokyo governor, Shintaro Ishihara, has recently managed to clear the area of the Triad on Visa violations but the latest menace seems to be Nigerian criminal syndicates.
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 there 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.
