Monday, May 16, 2022

(2624) And from Yurakucho to Ginza...

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...where even when it rains, hostesses come and go to and from the countless tiny exclusive clubs for gentlemen, in the apartment buildings of the backstreets behind the big avenues. Just in the few yards in this picture, you can count over a hundred signs, each for one of those clubs, each with its own stories. Which are much less related to sex than most people believe. 

(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr).

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