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This site will take you on a journey through the bustling city of Kabuki-cho and to the places in Kabuki-cho where the pressures of the city change than that of the rest of the city; to the Anomalies of Kabuki-cho. As you get off the train at Shinjuku Station and make your way to the East exit, you feel more and more out of place. You make your way up the steps of the East exit and find yourself in a melting pot of night life and metropolitan culture. Walking through the streets, you can feel the pressure of the city and the people there to follow suit. The experience of going to Kabuki-cho for the first time, often comprises of these feelings. However, there seem to be some places where these pressures morph and change, becoming epicenters of social construct, becoming anomalies among the restless city of Kabuki-cho.
Introduction
Kabukicho is one of the most famous red light districts in Tokyo and is known for its richness in nightlife. When thinking of Kabukicho, people often first think of adult entertainment such as host and hostess clubs, love hotel district, etc. Although it is undeniable that the Kabukicho area seems to be dangerous at first glance, there are also places that are “normal.” However, stores and shops in Kabukicho that you may also see somewhere else in Tokyo contain social norms and smirk rules that are different from other areas in Tokyo. In the research, we choose two places, the Toho Cinema, and the Batting Center, to explore the specialty in Kabukicho. This website aims to discuss the “normal” and “abnormal” in the Kabukicho area.
Snowy Kabuki-cho, January 2022
methodology
… if the researcher believes that certain norms are important in guiding some aspect of social life, the best way to establish the norms’ existence is to transgress the alleged norms and to note the reaction of persons to the transgression (Karp, 2015, 102)
Ethnographic research
This research is conducted from June 2022 to July 2022
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literature
The literary sources used throughout our page mainly explores the relationship between spaces, places and urbanites. Hence, it enables us to examine patterns of various behaviors and the tendencies that emerge through interactions, and following & breaking social orders. Thus, the sources contributes in illustrating the complexity of an urban environment that includes the integration of two distinctive groups of urbanites - Insiders and Outsiders.
