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Today’s Japan Photo: Kabukicho 歌舞伎町

Submitted by Alafista on Monday, 15 February 2010No Comment

For Today’s Japan Photo, we shall visit Kabukicho [歌舞伎町], the entertainment and red-light district in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

Kabukicho - rainy night

This lovely photo was taken by flickr user cocoip. Cocoip really did a good job capturing all the different colors of the neon lights on this rainy night using the LX3.

Here’s a little more background info on Kabukicho [歌舞伎町]:

Kabukicho [歌舞伎町] is an entertainment and red-light district in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Kabukichō is the location of many hostess bars, host bars, love hotels, shops, restaurants, and nightclubs, and is often called the “Sleepless Town” (眠らない街). The district’s name comes from late-1940s plans to build a kabuki theater: although the theater was never built, the name stuck.

The area has many movie theaters, and because it is located near Shinjuku Station, Seibu Shinjuku Station, and several other major railway and subway stations, tickets to its top attractions can be scarce.

At present, Kabukicho has transformed from a residential area to a world famous red-light district housing over three thousand bars, nightclubs, love hotels, massage parlours, hostess clubs and the like.

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