Hanazono Shrine is dedicated to Inari, a deity of fertility, and plays host to various festivals throughout the year. Don Quijote is like a Japanese version of Walmart: it's open 24hrs, is known for its huge selection of goods, and has multiple locations across Japan.
As mentioned earlier, it also serves a great location marker to the entrance of Kabukicho proper. Right down the street from Don Quijote you can find the Toho Cinema with an enormous Godzilla bust looming over Kabukicho.
You can even get a close up look of the statue by accessing the roof terrace on the 8th floor of the Toho building, which is also home a Godzilla themed cafe. The Godzilla head comes to life, roars, and lights up at the start of every hour from am to pm! If you ever find yourself stranded in Shinjuku after dark, luckily, there are many hotels at your disposal. Please have a look at the following articles to read up on your lodging options around the Kabukicho area.
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The museum is relatively small, but staff are knowledgeable and always willing to answer questions from visitors in English. They have demonstrations by trained actors and you can try on different costumes too. Guided tours are available and a good option, so you can have in-depth explanations to all the sections. Known as Piss Alley, or Memory Lane for the polite version, this is the grimier, darker and more food-orientated version of Golden Gai.
For plenty of beer, plenty of meat, a risk of food poisoning, new friends and a bit of an adventure, Piss Alley is perfect. Learn more about Omoide Yokocho here. If you want eyeballs in your drinks and brains for dinner, then Lockup is a great theme restaurant in Shinjuku to start your night of presumed weirdness. Enjoy your dinner but keep your wits about you, mutilated horrors will storm in to terrify you.
And if you anyone orders a birthday cake be prepared for ear-damaging screams when it is delivered. Have a look at the website for more details. As close as Japan gets to gambling legally , pachinko is a very popular pastime with more parlors than you can shake a stick at in this dodgy district. Now, if you hope to understand this game, good luck. The screaming racket that emanates from these glowing halls every time a door opens is genuinely quite horrifying—but you can give it a go.
Insert your money into the machine and wait for the happy crashing of tiny silver balls, then begin—you might win more, you might not. Who knows. Your aim is to make the balls land between the pegs, and the strength with which you turn the handle determines how strong they shoot out. Avoid very empty parlors, as they probably have a reputation for low payouts. Take your pick from iPad displays, with the lucky girl cough waiting upstairs.
Some shops are not so subtle, with some very non-PG displays, but usually manga-style which is considered acceptable. There are also a series of JK bars, which stand for joshi-kosei and offer various services from high-school girls—this is being clamped down on increasingly by police with new laws targeting the creepily booming business.
These are best avoided for a million obvious reasons. Depending on your budget, you can enjoy your own private Jacuzzi, costumes, in-room light shows and much more. While some are definitely pretty grim, the more up-market ones are respectable, for example Bali Hotel An Resort, or Hotel Moana.
Alternatively, you could visit the movie-famous Hotel Atlas from Kabukicho Love Hotel which offers discounts for girl groups.
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