Dear blog thread,
The other night we went to Roppongi because we read that it was were the nightclubs and such were. Here is a tip for anyone going to Tokyo: do not go to Roppongi. I knew a little bit about Roppongi before I went there, but I was not prepared for how massively dodgy it was.
Basically Roppongi is a bunch of bars and clubs and such, but you get off the subway and are immediately accosted by black dudes asking you if you like titties. "You like titties? Come to this club, great titties at this club." If you say no they ask if you don't like titties and just generally harrass you as you walk down the street. They are also what a local described as "fake black dudes." I mean, they are black and all, but they are African Africans and they try to pretend to be African American black because it is perceived to be cooler. The deal is that some of them straight up say "come to this club, big titties" but others are more subtle and try to talk with you like they are your friend, pretending to be oblivious to the half a million other black dudes doing the exact same thing. So they will be all like "so, how are you? I like you guys, you look like nice guys, you been in Japan long? How are you? Where you going tonight? You like girls? You should go to this club I know. You like titties? Great titties at this club."
So they folow you for like, 10 metres or until they sick of you not talking to them and then the next guy starts talking to you
or an asian girl comes up "hey you like free ma-sa-ji?" pretending to be Japanese when they are actually pretty low-quality chinese prostitutes. So after only a few minutes of this we decide we need to get into a non-shitty bar to get off the street. We pick one basically at random and it is awesome. It is a whisky bar, and I wind up drinking Wyborowa single estate vodka and my friend has single malt Chivas. We talk to the dude behind the counter for a bit, talk to some of the people in the bar. It was a nice place.
Then we decide we're brave enough to walk around and see if everywhere in Roppongi is like that. So we walk outside an we are assaulted again, everyone just all over you. "titties? titties! you no like titties?" The guy at the whisky bar told us about the black dudes and the chinese prostitutes fucking up the area. So anyway, we went outside and into this club over the road and it was comical. Like, it was so dodgy that it was comical. It wasn't a strip club, it was just supposed to be a bar. We get in and Livin' la vida loca is playing, lots of drunk westerners, lots of ugly chinese girls trying their best to look japanese, it was hilariously bad. My friend got one beer and I kept my hands firmly in my pockets until we left. Next place was better but not by much.
We wound up going to a cafe where we could sit outside and watch the messiness, then went back to the first bar. They guy we were talking to earlier was leaving for a small dance club, so we went with him. It was packed with locals and the music was ok house-type music. Free entry, cheap drinks. We all got circus drunk and made a couple friends. The bar dude is coming out to Australia some time early next year, so we might meet up with him again and he might crash at our place if he needs to. Got his email address so we'll see what's up.
So anyway, he was going to try to ride his bike home, so we said fuck that, we'll walk with you (because he was really fucking drunk). We walked him in to Shibuya then got on a train back to Asakusa, got like 4 hours sleep maybe then went out to Shinjuku, walked down to Yoyogi Park and got rained on heavily. Walked through Harajuku, but the cosplay people were all gone because it was kind of late and also raining. We got really wet in the rain, so I bought some replacement clothes. A really nice pair of Lee jeans and a trendy shirt that kind of makes me look gay I guess. Whatever! I am on holidays! So we walked through Harajuku down to Shibuya, ate some delicious stuff at a place whose name I have no idea about, then went to a manga house to jump on the internet for a bit.
That was yesterday, and we did some stuff today but my internet time is running out, so I'll report back another time.
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