im in shinjuku right now....awesome place great food/shopping/people watching :)

i found that if you are in kabukicho as a couple, you are not hassled at all. but go at night...the african dudes are all hustling you into their clubs for 3000-4000 yen "special" all you can drink with peelers they said. Didn't try as it just didn't feel reliable.

Consistent with other reports, the japanese dudes did not approach me to get me into their clubs. There were some korean and chinese hustlers also, who didn't set off my spider senses.

Still...I could not read the signs and did not have a local with me so I thought it wiser to window shop only.

i stayed in shinjuku for 10 days, mostly because tis central to shibuya, akasaka and ofc shinjuku. shinjuku itself is great, shopping, eating bars etc. its kabukicho that is the red light district and u do have to be careful but mostly its harmless. stay away from hostess bars and strip clubs, apart from that, its a real eye opener.

shinjuku is great, stay at Sunroute Plaza Hotel, and yes there are some men from Nigeria trying to get people into their clubs. They do not seem trusting, and yes I am black. Everyone, shoould be careful, everywhere.

have you really been there.
ive always wanted to go to tokyo.

There are plenty of Africans trying to get you into their clubs. I couldn't take 10 steps without someone trying to hustle me. Be careful because their are a lot of bad stories of guys who wandered into places and ended up leaving with bills a lot larger than they thought or ending up in physical confrontations. By the way the Africans approach the foreigners because the Japanese guys won't. Most of the clubs in Kabukicho are for Japanese only.

i just come from tokyo. i visited kabukicho also. there are so many african and chinese people work for many strip clubs. their initial behavior is great but they frequently missguided peoples and take money off. so be careful when visit such places.

i just wanna say a word in kabukicho;it's really a crowded nice place includin any good n bad thing but i love it cause i checked there..........

domo,kon nichiwa.i'm a waitress at a cafe in kabukicho nearby "koma gekijo(the theatre koma)" .it's interesting to hear about shinjuku from diffrent point of view.i love shinjuku because it's got everything in good and bad ways and i found people around there work harder than i thought.it's a very crowded place that gives me headache but i enjoy feeling that "this place can't stop changing!!"

i'm currently working in tokyo - shinjuku is everything you say it is! it's a bit of fun so long as you stay on the right side of things. also try walking around roppongi at night the proposititions come thick and fast from african guys trying to get you into their clubs! i love tokyo tho!

I just came back from Japan. I stayed in Shinjuku 3 days and I did not see any african let alone anyone trying to get us into strip clubs. It is not a weird place and it does not get annoying at all.