‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ is everything you’d expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It’s just not very hot — Stephen Hunter

Bright Lights, Yakuza City (II)

Tokyo, Japan, 2016 - 2017

Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Tokyo Lights - Oliver Lins, Invading Spaces | Quest - Im Wandel der Zeit
Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins

[Part I] According to a spokesperson of the Metropolitan Tokyo government, there were far more than a thousand Yakuza members active in Kabukichō until 2005, controlling enterprises of all sorts, generating impressive profits and power. Today laws are more strictly enforced and cooperation with the underworld increased which, in my opinion, consequently will lead to a rather dull overall experience.

Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
hinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins

Clamping down on illegal clubs and brothels already drove a large number of unique and history-charged, culturally valuable “institutions” out of business. I am not quite sure if a government is the right candidate to run it’s own red-light districts. It kind of contradicts itself.

Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins
Yakuza Town Tokyo Shinjuku Kabukichō. Quest By Oliver Lins