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Butterfly

Random photos I took on my trip to Tokyo, amazing culture

First stop Tokyo's Champs-Elysees Omotesando on a nice sunny Sunday afternoon. It should be noted that Omotesando is a giant fashion catwalk, all the Japanese women are dressed at their best, and you can see hordes of fashion addicts teenage girls shopping like crazy and all dressed up for a fashion cat walk

Below, we have crazy Japanese teenage kids obsessed with mantra dress up and come to show off their costumes in exchange of possible photoshoot deals. It's a live casting for everyone to see. Amazing.

Butterfly

here an official casting with photoshoot, guys costumes was amazing, couldn't take too many as it was an official casting and they didn't like to pose for "tourists". A lot of hot girls. The poor western girl who was also modeling during that photoshoot wasn't getting any attention

Butterfly

the traffic lights are mental, everyone is waiting for the light to turn to red, and soon enough the intersection becomes super busy with everyone waiting. It's quite strange, it's like waiting at a lounge, people chat, look at each other, talk, and even small photo casting takes shape with local amateur girls all fashionally dressed up while waiting for the light, absolutely crazy.

Butterfly

next stop: Harajuku on a busy Sunday afternoon. Cosplay central, and the hip culture.

Butterfly

so many hot girls, almost felt like Nana plaza on a saturday night

actually coming to think of it, they dressed exactly the same and have the same hair style. Guess, that's how they get their Japanese customers to pay for 5,000 a short time

tuktukdriver

I passed through both those areas last Sunday. I live here in Tokyo so the whole freak show thing has worn off a bit. It all starts seeming normal after awhile. You should go to Shibuya at night and check out all the young kids. They must spend hours on their hair each day...and that's just the guys. The girls must spend all day working on it.

Butterfly

next stop: Shinjuku night time

small random streets

tuktukdriver

I've seen many girls in Thai gogo bars that copy the Japanese look, big hair and all.

I was at the Motown Bar in Roppongi last night. The Thai girls and ladyboys have invaded Japan and that's where they hang out.

Butterfly

next stop: Shibuya night time, the place to hang around for bars, hot girls, escort boys, the expensive Japanese Karaoke, and the drunk Japanese students

Butterfly

yeah that place is fucking great, love the music and those crazy drunk farang and Japanese businessmen on a saturday night

Incidentally the best looking girls trying to pick you up in that bar are usually Thai. The Japanese girls looking for the men are usually a bit old and not so hot, but very easy apparently for a quick fuck.

When I started to talk in Thai, they were quite unhappy and didn't understand how I could have guessed by just looking at them

Butterfly

I believe you, it was a bit overwhelming I have to admit. Too much cultural shock. What shocked me most was the hordes of early teen Japanese girls shopping together, with their hands full of brand name bags and all dressed up like expensive hookers or in some case very very fashionable. Fashion obsessed society came to my mind. Never saw anything like that.

Butterfly

Escort boys, they thought I was gay because I was taking their picture

They were a nice crowd though, joked with them a bit until they started to chase me. I think they wanted money for the pictures

Butterfly

Random pics from there:

tuktukdriver

Did you go to the old part of Kabukicho in Shinjuku? That's the old red light district, where the brothels once were, which is now just a bunch of bars. That's worth a visit. The first bar you see which is run by Phillipinos is where I go quite a bit.

Butterfly

more random pics:

Butterfly

yes I did. That's where all the students are drunk in the streets and pass out ?

I think some of the pics above are from there. Not sure.

Butterfly

grocery are actually quite reasonable for imports, about the same as Thailand. Yeah, that's how expensive Thailand has become for expats

Norton

Planet Japan. What a place. Good stuff BF.

Butterfly

now that's an interesting gas station, and if you have the money you can buy exotic cars for as little as 30 million THB

yet I never saw so many exotic cars in Tokyo

melvbot

Japan, one of the places Id love to visit. Blurry photos of rent boys, meat and cheese errr thanks?

Butterfly

that's exactly how I felt. What a place. Can't wait to go back. Will need to find an excuse to go there though

Visa run ?

Taxi rides were super expensive though, about 20 USD for each trip, even short trip. Actually not that expensive, it's about Phuket price with the tuktuk mafia

slackula

And yet all you give us are pictures of rent-boys!

Butterfly

you should, it's not too far from here, about 6 hours. Tokyo is huge though, can't see everything, even in 4 days, I couldn't go all the place I wanted to go. I didn't visit the park, the Emperor palace etc... Tokyo is not that expensive, but transportation is a mess. Bad subway connection, expensive, buses might be better but it's all in Japanese.

sorry to disappoint, didn't know you were into rent boys

The Fresh Prince

Any chicks?

Butterfly

I know, but I have videos, plenty of them, so I could catch glimpse of the hotties in the streets

I video the Ginza crosswalk, absolutely mental.