Additional notes from my stay in Tokyo:
Public transportation (primarily for sight seeing):
Get yourself an IC card to use for public transportation (subway, jr-trains, busses) during your stay in Japan. Thus you don't have to worry about ticket prices and how to prebuy the correct ticket, very convenient. If you don't do a lot of city hopping, a JR pass is wasted money and limits your choice for public transportation companies.
General percepction of you as a tourist?
Some people switched sides in the train to NOT sit down next to me. During the day I was wearing tourist gear, but neither looked nor smelled like a dirty backpacker. I don't know how this came to be. Either some people are afraid of you, are just racist or some other white people really fucked up our reputation down there. I suppose people thought I was American, that was the country everybody gave me as a first guess. Maybe somebody can chime in on this.
Most times you don't stand out in all the touristy cities. If you are not 2 m or 6ft5 blonde? young Japanese males will be your height or even tower you. I mostly saw young guys ~1.8m or 6ft1.
Nightlife:
Public transportation is dead after 12 pm until 5 am. Prepare to pay a taxi to your hotel/airbnb or get a hotel/airbnb in Roppongi or Shibuya with walking distance to the clubs. Logistics are the key like everywhere.
Entrance fees are quite high, drink prices are reasonable and on a european/german level.
Competition is quite high. Japanese business men go to the club after work/in the evening to wind down and pick up girls. I definitley saw them gaming some cute office drones, all suited up. Suit up if that is your thing.
Get there early around 11.30-12 pm, certainly before peak sausage fest @2 am. You most likely won't pull after that, this rule holds true for every club that is opened until 5 am I have ever been to, at least for me.
Rolling solo is possible with very limited Japanese. Socialise to find guys/girls with intereset in foreigners/you that can have a basic conversation in English, work the room then the girls.
Clubs Try to google for recent information on clubs before you go out, it seems to change a lot in 6 months.
Sunday Roppongi is dead, maybe some local residents can give more information on what districts to hit on what day. Shibuya might have some action on Sunday?
Nigerians, prostitutes, hustlers generally left me alone, never got really hassled by one of them in Roppongi. That might be different in Shinjuku/Kabukicho
Did I capture my flag? No, because I was staying in a hostel in a different district. Get yourself a hotel/airbnb in the nightlife districts or very close to them. There are definitley some girls eager to experience a night with a foreigner, but prepare yourself to follow Tokyo Joe's Guide and shell out the money that is necessary to do that.
Japan reminded me of a 80s-90s Germany with all the feminine women in dresses and general quality of living, depressing to see how our country could look like.
Public transportation (primarily for sight seeing):
Get yourself an IC card to use for public transportation (subway, jr-trains, busses) during your stay in Japan. Thus you don't have to worry about ticket prices and how to prebuy the correct ticket, very convenient. If you don't do a lot of city hopping, a JR pass is wasted money and limits your choice for public transportation companies.
General percepction of you as a tourist?
Some people switched sides in the train to NOT sit down next to me. During the day I was wearing tourist gear, but neither looked nor smelled like a dirty backpacker. I don't know how this came to be. Either some people are afraid of you, are just racist or some other white people really fucked up our reputation down there. I suppose people thought I was American, that was the country everybody gave me as a first guess. Maybe somebody can chime in on this.
Most times you don't stand out in all the touristy cities. If you are not 2 m or 6ft5 blonde? young Japanese males will be your height or even tower you. I mostly saw young guys ~1.8m or 6ft1.
Nightlife:
Public transportation is dead after 12 pm until 5 am. Prepare to pay a taxi to your hotel/airbnb or get a hotel/airbnb in Roppongi or Shibuya with walking distance to the clubs. Logistics are the key like everywhere.
Entrance fees are quite high, drink prices are reasonable and on a european/german level.
Competition is quite high. Japanese business men go to the club after work/in the evening to wind down and pick up girls. I definitley saw them gaming some cute office drones, all suited up. Suit up if that is your thing.
Get there early around 11.30-12 pm, certainly before peak sausage fest @2 am. You most likely won't pull after that, this rule holds true for every club that is opened until 5 am I have ever been to, at least for me.
Rolling solo is possible with very limited Japanese. Socialise to find guys/girls with intereset in foreigners/you that can have a basic conversation in English, work the room then the girls.
Clubs Try to google for recent information on clubs before you go out, it seems to change a lot in 6 months.
Sunday Roppongi is dead, maybe some local residents can give more information on what districts to hit on what day. Shibuya might have some action on Sunday?
Nigerians, prostitutes, hustlers generally left me alone, never got really hassled by one of them in Roppongi. That might be different in Shinjuku/Kabukicho
Did I capture my flag? No, because I was staying in a hostel in a different district. Get yourself a hotel/airbnb in the nightlife districts or very close to them. There are definitley some girls eager to experience a night with a foreigner, but prepare yourself to follow Tokyo Joe's Guide and shell out the money that is necessary to do that.
Japan reminded me of a 80s-90s Germany with all the feminine women in dresses and general quality of living, depressing to see how our country could look like.
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