SEX & NIGHTLIFE
Coffee Shop Cool: Inside the Kabukicho Kissaten That (Almost) Never Sleeps
How a coffee shop with rock-bottom prices became a home away from home for the diverse denizens of Kabukicho.
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SEX & NIGHTLIFE
SEX & NIGHTLIFE
How Japan’s Nightlife Tourist Traps Pad Their Reviews
Japan's tourist traps know how to look trustworthy online, creating paid reviews, inflated ratings, and search rankings to mislead travelers.
SEX & NIGHTLIFE
Tattoos and Tokyo Nightlife: Will Some Venues Refuse You Entry?
Will an izakaya, soapland, or happening bar turn you away for having tattoos? Here's what you need to know before exploring Tokyo…
FOOD
Shime-Parfait: The Sweet Way Japan Winds Down a Night Out
Learn all about the branding of shime-parfait and how a tradition of an after-drink sweet in Sapporo spread across the country.
SEX & NIGHTLIFE
Oppai Bars: How Japan’s “Sexy Cabaret” Stay Legal, and Whether Foreigners Can Go
What oppai bars are, how they work, and how Japan's ever-changing entertainment laws helped bring them into being.
INSIDER
A Japanese Soapland Fired Her. So She Turned Them In to the Cops
A soapland allegedly fired a worker after she was sent home with a fever. Here's the story of how she got her…
INSIDER
The Museum of Roadside Art: Inside The Tokyo Museum Where Sex and Kitsch Collide
Inside Tokyo's Museum of Roadside Art, a Japanese photojournalist's mission to save erotic art others consider too "lowbrow" to preserve.
SEX & NIGHTLIFE
Soaplands Explained: Are They Legal, and Can Foreigners Actually Go?
Soaplands are one of Japan's most euphemistic open secrets: “special bathhouses” where sex is sold under a legal fiction the country has…