Kabukicho..

.. is not the kind of place you wanna mess with. A walk around this infamous part of Shinjuku, full of fuzoku-ten, hostess bars, and AV outlets will introduce you to all types of touts, questionable bar establishments, back door restaurants, and just about anything anyone could imagine to commit to video. It's commonly understood to be controlled and regulated by the Yakuza, and is one of the main places that mirrors the worlds common perception of Tokyo's neon landscape.

I've been here a lot over the years, but this night was the first time I was scared into sensibility..

Maruyamacho Y

Every so often when you walk through the love hotel district you come across some S class big body benz, all tinted up and obviously attending to business. Once we even came across a whole group of yakuza middle men guarding a bosses car outside a seedy hotel. They were wearing their sunglasses at night, we kept walking.

This is how they roll..