I worked in Tokyo today and by 10pm there was nobody in the office that I knew, so I went into Shibuya and Shinjuku. I’ve never been to either, so I wanted to see what was up.
I didn’t really like either. There were hoards of people on this Friday night, and everywhere there seemed to be people soliciting things. In Shinjuku there were tonnes of black guys (American?) trying to rustle people up to go to their girly bars. They were mostly really persistent which annoyed me.
Then in Shibuya, there seemed to be mostly Japanese guys trying to rustle up people to go to their Izakaya or something. Not so good. I wandered up a bit of a hilly street, which I presume started to be Roppongi, and then there were all these girls asking if I wanted a massage! Yuck! So I hightailed it out of there and got home by 12:45 to write this blog.
I don’t think I’ll be going to those places again in a hurry…