From Calm Tokyo to Insane Kabukicho!

From Calm Tokyo to Insane Kabukicho!

[Music] All right. Now we are in a different side of Shinjuku. This area is exactly opposite side of the Kabuk area. So less touristy is more local. This area is a local side of Shinjuku. There are many actually coolakayas in this town. This is a famous chain seafood restaurant and there are cool some cool restaurants. I’m going to show you later. This area actually has a some bigger restaurant than the Kabuki site because a lot of people go to Kabuko, not here. So this restaurant, the G restaurant is already empty. Maybe it’s closed. I’m not a huge Isizakaya. Here they have second floor too. Goodbye. It’s a nice bar. [Music] So this allin is a touching gambling. That one is a karaoke. A nice design. [Music] Okay. Nice one here. Sushi super ramen. So Shinjugu is the busiest and wildest place in Tokyo maybe in the whole Japan. There are some area like actually Osaka also is very lively but I think Shinjuku is biggest. Yeah, Shinjuku is biggest station in the world and they also is super huge and nice seafood restaurant again. camera. Hello. What is that actually? [Music] YouTube Zakura. So she says, “Please come to Thank you. Thank you.” Justice. Justice. Justice. Justice. Your your name is Justice? Yeah. Really very interesting name. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Bye-bye. That’s the That’s the isakaya third floor of this building. Yeah. She recommended that one. She invited you guys to that restaurant. [Applause] The ramen restaurant here should be delicious. People are lining up maybe. Let’s check. This is sweet as well. So there’s a big udawashi camera here in Shinjuku. I think it’s the biggest after you. Which one? The one in Hello. Isakaya. Where is the isakaya? Right side for a right side for a yellow one. Uh Ah, okay. Okay. Very delicious. Okay. Very delicious. Yeah. What was the name of the isakaya? Kyozo. Cuz Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The name of the isakaya. All right. Let’s actually walk in this area and then we go to the right side again. [Music] Minami Garden. Italian restaurant. This one they have large pizzas over there. You can see Italian restaurant. Wow. It’s It’s big. It’s big. They have this type of food. Pizza. Very huge. Check it out. [Music] Hello, George. All right, let’s also check this area here and then we go to central and then eventually we go to Kabukish area. Come on, baby. All right, we checked that area. So, I think we better go to the area now. I’m going to show you and then I’m going to show you cover area. Hello Louise Oliver. Hello everyone. So we are heading to actually let’s go from the main street. So, Tokyo has 23 wards and Shinjuku is the busiest one and maybe the lively one actually, especially this area. And now we are in the actually west side of Shinjuku. We are heading to Kabok. I have Kabuki is the wildest. It’s the craziest. This area, the Shinjuku is under construction now. Hello. And then I think it’s been under construction for many years since the beginning because it’s super big, super busy. Every year they are changing some part of it. So, and there are many big shopping malls in Shinjuku. Chinuk is really big and very actually confusing. Should I walk? All right, we have to actually have to go quickly. All right, we made it because he came to this side to show you the the view of the buildings in Shinjuku. Also from Shinjuku, 10 minutes walk from here. If you go to the north side, you can see north northwest side. Yeah, I would say it’s the government buildings. They have some cool projection show on the buildings every day. Some Godzilla shows some stuff. And this is some part of the buildings over there. All right, we are only a few minutes away from Yoko. I think Yoko is open until 11. Some of them maybe until midnight. Let’s see. That tall tower you see in front of us, that’s actually Kabuki’s newest tower, the tallest building in Kabuki. Now, the view is here. And later, I’m going to show you just go in front of the building. So Shinjuku is a giant maze. So you come here if you’re not careful, you don’t check properly, you’re going to get lost. So every day about 3 million 3 2 million people actually use a change. She bring 5 million visitor every day. Just imagine how crazy it [Applause] gets and there are too many gates. So sometimes you make appointment with some friends or someone and then you don’t know who if you come out from a different gate you end up uh getting far from your main point like 10 15 minutes sometime the Google map doesn’t work properly so you have to uh really check properly you have to maybe set your meat open in some really main area that is visible or like a kabuch red gate for example or some big landmarks that everybody knows. So this is another big camera. That’s the government. No, this one is not the government. is behind this actually just to correct myself because you have to walk like 10 minutes to see the the governance. [Music] Byebye. All right, construction is going on in Shinjuku station. Last year, this area was open now. It’s under construction. So, we are getting closer to side of Shinjuku. I’m going to show you in a few minutes. [Music] Let’s go. All right. So from here turn left and we’re going to enter. All right guys, welcome to a memory a memory line in Shinjuku. One of the most nostalgic and exciting food alleys in Tokyo. The name Omo in Japanese simply means memory lane because it a nostalgic town. And when you enter inside, it actually looks like you go back in time. You travel back in time. As you see, there are about uh 70 80 isa coy isakayas in little area. Hello YouTube. Hello. Hello. Where you from? Uh, it’s Japan Explorer YouTube channel. J Japan Explores. Yes. YouTube channel. I’ll subscribe. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Have fun. And All right. Let’s Let’s get it. So, we’re going to see some cool narrow pizzas like this. I think only five to 10 people can enter. And the special thing is very cozy. When you sit beside each other, you naturally get engag in conversation with others because it’s very narrow. And the drink is good. You can get beer. They have yaki yaki and other stuff. City is open. I think it’s open until midnight. And there are many foreigners here. [Music] [Music] This one is already closed. This whole is closed. There are some cool restaurant. As you see, maybe seven, eight people, some of even less, but less people can fit inside. And there are some shortcuts here and there to get out. From here, from here, you can actually get out to This is another side of this. Very cool. Solid cow. Let’s go back in. [Music] Smells really good here. Hello Austin, welcome to the stream. That one is a [Music] [Laughter] [Music] bomb. Cool order. What’s this? It’s very cool. I like it here. So, it has ramen. fish and shrimp. Main gate all the way to just in front of us and it’s area. This is also this is another valley of head to cover. We’re going to see the red gate of Kabukito in a few minutes. All right. Actually, I have to connect the battery to the encoder in a few minutes. So that’s Kabuk area. That’s the gate over there. We’re going to head that area now. [Music] Yeah. Okay. [Music] All right, I have to actually connect the P. Just one minute. [Music] [Music] Connecting the battery now. [Music] [Music] Oh, maybe we have to cross the street there. It’s crowd that we can’t cross this beautiful show you actually this area before across the street. This is good. What is this? All [Music] right, let’s enter Tokyo’s adult Disneyland. Tokyo’s sleep back on at that point. [Music] Okay. Okay. So we are in front of Tohjo cinema and Godzilla. Godzilla head is on top this way. This route is called Godzilla. That’s Godzilla’s head. So we are doing tour guide in Tokyo. We have a Shinjuku bar hopping tour. We always meet with the participant in this area and we take them to three different bars. So if you guys are new, check out our tours at smileywalk.shop. [Music] show you unique places in this town on the tour. [Music] So last week Tom Cruz was in Japan to kick off the movie Mission Mission Impossible. That’s there on the a lot of [Music] tall. There are many type of night life places in Kabich is a mystery town. It’s really cool, really fun. Also, you have to be careful with a complicated uh charge system in a lot of places. [Music] Please hit the like button while watching the video. Yeah, let me actually link the site here, smiley rock. I put the link in the comment section now. All right, here you go. That’s our website. Like I said, we are doing some cool unique tours in Japan. Check them out at smileywalk.shop. [Music] So this is actually the landmark of another landmark of Kabuko. That sign says I love Kacho. [Music] Good [Applause] [Music] This coffee 88 is really popular among foreigners. I don’t know because the location is nice. I see all the time it’s full of foreigner, not Japanese. So let’s actually see the main area of Kaboko from here. Again, just Kabukija tower, the red gate. [Music] You see [Music] that? All right. Hold there. Your How about the football? Thank [Music] Yeah. Beautiful. by any Come on. Come on. Any YouTube? [Music] [Music] [Music] All right. Now we are in the main area of Kabuko the main street golden Ichung not the main one of the main street it’s very popular this is because of the red gates You get it. Thank you. Hold on. [Music] So, Kabuk has a lot of nightife places from normal restaurant to isakayas to Normal bars, touching me, sand bars, shot bars, and then more different type of bars like a girls bar, host club, hostess club, and they goes all the way deeper to also like punk coffee, so plant massage and all things you can find in Kabuko. But it’s hidden. It’s not very obvious. But also, it’s a bit mysterious and complicated. The price is really confusing. So, also the language barrier. So, if you come this town, you have to be careful. Hello, Stefan. How are you doing? Chicago. So this street if you go all the way to north you can reach Korean town Shinuku. But we are actually exploring cover tonight and we’re going to see this area with maybe half an hour and then we’re going to end the video. Kiku is live all the time. [Music] This is lively. It’s serious. If you’re if you are careful, you can have fun, enjoy the town. If you’re not careful, you can end up some bad experience because the like I say the charge system is complicated. So if you enter some hostess bar or gears bar, you might get overcharged. So you have to check properly. And if you are in Tokyo for the first time, you can join our tours actually and we will guide you. Then you can experience the town safely. You wait. Let’s go and check out Kobich. [Music] wombat parliament. Thank you very much for recommending the gears bar. Yeah, we are doing actually gears barbar hopping tour uh once a month usually but if you have additional request you can do it like twice a month. So next week we have that one. Actually if you’re in Tokyo next week uh next Wednesday we are doing a gears bar hopping in Oeno area. We explore three different gears bar and you can explore the girls bar with us safe and since they don’t speak English we can actually translate for you guys can enjoy the only in Japan gears bar experience. Yeah, Paul and Stephan actually joined that tour. And next week also we have six participants. We can take more. And yeah, that one is actually once a month. We have a regular the Shinjuku bar hopping tour we have every week. Gears bar hopping once a month. Asakusa history tour it’s every Friday and we have Akiara made coffee hopping tour as well that one also is like once a month Kabukicho, the biggest entertainment town in Japan. There are some other big red light area in Japan, but this one is the biggest one. And it’s like a game actually. Also the historically if you check the history of this town the mayor of town like uh 60 70 years ago when he wanted to make this town actually he he wanted to make a kabuki theater. Kabuki is Japanese traditional shop and then he for some reason he wasn’t able to make the town the Kabuki here but he still named the town Kabuki Cho means Kabuk kabuki Tommy’s town this kabuki town but there is no Kabuki in this town but if if you consider like a kabuki as a entertainment thing it’s a big kabuki adult kabuki It’s a big red light here. And this when you walk in this town, it’s like a a game really. It’s mysterious. You want to go explore stuff. Also, the design of the roads are like L shape. It’s like a labyrinth. You don’t see in front of you much. So, you know, subconsciously makes you excited. You want to turn left and right to discover what’s in every corner. And what’s in every corner also not only every corner there, as you see, there are too many tall buildings and there are too many stuff inside each building. Too many nightlife places in cities. So this way is very exciting and even if you don’t really go inside anything, it’s really fun walking in this area. You can just enjoy some isizakaya, some bars, and there is a nostalgic uh bar hopping town, Shinjuku Golden Way, which is the town was made after World War II. That town also is really cool for you. We do that one on Shinjuku bar hopping tour. So, you can check them out. Smileywalk.shop also uh because there are many nightlife area here also you need a hotels after drinking and stuff. Love hotel. Love hotel is also is a big thing in Japan. The biggest love hotel area is in Shinjuku just on the left side of us between Kabuko and Shinuku. There are about few hundred long hotels. You can stay as short as 2 hours or as long as one night, but you can’t book it. You can just go in and enter the place. Sometimes it’s just you don’t even see any person. You just pay with the machine and go inside or you pay at your room with your credit card. So for privacy, you don’t really see any reception of anyone. And there are many host clubs as well which cool men handsome guys serve girls. A lot of Japanese girls, they mostly those that they have social issue, they go there because they are served by cool guys and they feel good and they become regular. All right, Carl Mat. Okay. And this town is very actually lively until morning. Not as lively as it now, but until 1 p.m. 1:00 a.m. is lively like this. And then until morning still a lot of people in the street, the bars, the girls bar inside the buildings. So this way is called Sleepless town in Japanese is the name of the mo movie, a Japanese movie on Netflix which was about mafia uh conflict and uh like a fighting happen in this town back uh 25 years ago. So the movie is about that mafia fight which is foreigner mafia not Japanese mafia. [Music] So I think we don’t have much time to explore golden way the bar hopping area. That’s a cool area about 220 bar and a little square shape area. It’s really cool that town is very artistic. Nice design of for each bar. Maybe I do another video specific video for that one. All right guys, if you are having fun with this video, please hit the like button. Also, let me know in the comment if you have any question. So, Golden Guy is just on the left. I’m going to show you the entrance of in a few minutes. [Music] Also one more point that I have to uh mention is that in Kabukito uh the used to be really dangerous like up until 10 years ago maybe 15 years ago but now is very safe in terms You know there’s no no not much crime compared to the past since 10 years ago. I think the town is under that’s the golden guy the gate I mentioned earlier the bar hopping area. Yeah now is generally safe. The only thing is you have to be careful when you go inside places. Nobody is there to help you with your wallet. You might get overcharged taxes and they have a really complic complicated system for charging especially for a foreigner. Even Japanese people, a lot of Japanese people don’t feel safe in this town and they never come here. But as a foreigner, you have language barrier, then it’s more it’s more more tricky. So you have to be careful. [Laughter] All right, let’s go from here. By the way, this is a Shinjuku’s board office. Shinjuku ward office. This building on the right side. Yeah, they have to get rid of those guys, but they are working for some establishment. They’re getting paid. Don’t follow anyone who wants to show you a place in Kubishu and you will save yourself a lot of money. Yeah, those people that they actually keep pushing you, you should never follow them. When someone pushes you hard, you should never follow them. That’s the only way. like those guys. But if you find a place, if you get recommended a place, if you research it online and if you find it cool and say you can go. But if you see some people are pushing you to go somewhere with them, don’t go. I would I won’t say all of them. There are some also there are some guys actually who working respectfully for some establishment. They also do the same thing outside. But you can’t trust anyway unless you want to risk it and you don’t and you don’t mind paying some money for experience. So yeah, so I didn’t if I didn’t have the camera with me, I would be approached by a lot of these people now. And by the way, this type of information shops, they provide you information about the the red light places, not only the uh like sex places, also Garc. They recommend you a lot of places, the information one. So they are really old shops since Ed, since 400 years ago. They used to be called chaya or tea shop. They are not actually tea shop or they don’t serve anything. They serve you information about the night life area. Yep. All right. I think we don’t have much time to explore deeper. One night I’m going to actually make a video from midnight to morning because a lot of things happens after midnight. So I’m going to do a unique video and with high quality audio video. I use my uh better the best lens and camera setup. I want to do a video from midnight to morning soon. Yeah, this type of place as you see they will provide you information about the night life area for free. What they get? Of course, they get money some percentage from the main establishments that they recommend. So the girls that are ascending with the sign, they are holding the sign, the system of the menu of the bar and they’re waiting for customers to to uh they’re waiting for customer in general. [Music] So that hotel actually is a nice place. It’s just in the center of Kabuku. So if you guys come this town, that hotel is a cool area. I don’t know how much. Maybe it’s expensive that one. Hi We are actually in front of Golden Gay sign what I love. All right. H something smells really good. That I think is the that that car some sweet smells really good. Right. All right, Ray, see you. Thank you for joining. Don’t leave without hitting the like [Music] button. Oh. Oh, that hotel is expensive. Yeah, OPA is okay. Yeah, is it’s I think a reasonable price hotel. I think the big the biggest actually chain hotel in Tokyo is Apa Hotel. They have it everywhere. Every corner Apollo. So this is the main catch area. The girls are holding the sun here mostly for girls. [Music] I think we have to now go to the station. We have to head back to the station now. [Music] This is What happened? [Music] 23 going [Music] main level. Now he’s Almost midnight in Shinjuku Kavicha. Another view of Kab this side. That is what I’m talking about. Here are some photos of old cavito old shinjuku. These photos are like from 60 years ago. This is the golden guy. The main gate of go which is this one. This way. This is the red gate. Just we just passed [Music] uh 1972. 1972 Golden Gate. Yeah, it’s cool to see the all the photos and compare the streets. All right, we are heading to Odoro line. We have to catch the bus train area over there goes to area where you can see the government buildings. We did little daddy.

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