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Last night. About 12 hours ago, as I write this.
Bronica medium format camera, 50mm Nikkor lens, Fuji Neopan 400 film, exposed at 1600, 11 minutes in SPD
Lights and colors of all kinds and shapes over the pedestrian crossing. One of the many streets that offer this view. This is really a place for night street photography. From the famous Entertainment district Kabukicho, Tokyo, Japan.
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Kabukichō, Shinjuku. Tokyo has many places centred around nightlife entertainment, but this is perhaps the most prominent of them (and the place is also known as 'Sleepless town'). Here are tons of restaurants and clubs (of various types) and cinemas too. The place got its name from plans in the 1940s to build a kabuki theatre here. The plans got scrapped, but the name stuck.
Kabukichō è un distretto a luci rosse di Tokyo situato all'interno del quartiere speciale di Shinjuku.
Vi è un'alta concentrazione di love hotel, night club, soap land e locali per adulti in genere, ma anche di ristoranti e normalissime attività commerciali, negozi e piccoli uffici di cambiavalute dove è anche possibile acquistare buoni scontati per musei e attrazioni.
Molti gli alberghi in questa zona, fra cui il noto Hotel Gracery, situato nello Shinjuku Toho Building, è famoso per ospitare una gigantesca testa di Godzilla (Godzilla Head, inaugurata nell'aprile del 2015) che si sporge dalla Terrazza situata all'ottavo piano e che, una volta ogni ora, sprigiona vapori e si accende di luci.
Kabukichō è gestito principalmente dalla yakuza, che controlla i locali, tra i quali si trovano anche sale per giocare a pachinko, e si occupa della sicurezza del quartiere, rendendolo così una zona sicura.
Con gli anni alla yakuza si è affiancata la Triade cinese.
Kabukichō is a Tokyo red-light district located within the Shinjuku special ward.
There is a high concentration of love hotels, night clubs, soap lands and clubs for adults in general, but also restaurants and normal commercial activities, shops and small bureaux de change where it is also possible to purchase discounted vouchers for museums and attractions.
Many hotels in this area, including the well-known Hotel Gracery, located in the Shinjuku Toho Building, is famous for hosting a gigantic Godzilla head (Godzilla Head, inaugurated in April 2015) which protrudes from the terrace located on the eighth floor and which, once an hour, releases vapors and lights up.
Kabukichō is mainly managed by the yakuza, who control the premises, which also include pachinko rooms, and take care of the safety of the neighborhood, thus making it a safe area.
Over the years, the Chinese Triad has joined the yakuza.
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• Umbrela: TANAKA - WAGASA UMBRELLA @CYBER FAIR
• Outfit: ..KIKI KAIKAI.. - FURACHI @Okinawa
• Shape: Project Idol - Wonho
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Model: Kayoko
Technical: handheld (braced on my knees) for 2.5s (should have brought my tripod!)
A snapshot from Kabukicho, which extents not only horizontally but vertically as well. The thing that I didn't do enough in Tokyo was taking nighttime pictures of colorful streets and alleys. Everything from composition to post-processing is still unfinished and rough.