Originally Posted by
5khours
There's lots of outdoor seating in the Southern Terrace, and lots of young people hang out there later in the evening. Kind of a nice laid back vibe. Not too commercial and not too seedy.
Seedy, eh?
A few years ago, I was walking through Kabukicho, looking for a particular sculpture of a horse (which I then learned was in front of Okubo hospital). A Nigerian fellow helped me locate a horse sculpture ... which in typical Japanese fashion, was jutting out of the side of a building). As I was telling him about the other one, at that moment I saw two other Nigerians dragging an Australian guy down the street; he was yelling "no, not agaaaaain!."
In spite of going out on the town in Rappungi (hisashiburi) a lot, Kabukicho was the only place yonder I ever considered being seedy. Oh, and some of the toshiyori didn't make Minami Senju too appealing either.