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A Guide to Gay Bar Etiquette in Japan
Tokyo’s famous gay district, Shinjuku Ni-Chome, has one of the world’s highest concentrations of LGBT-friendly businesses. For the most part, it&#;s a place where first-timers can dangle out without needing to worry too much about exceptional customs or cultural knowledge.
Ni-Chome is used to tourists but, those who verb to sneak into smaller, more local LGBT bars might find some cultural practices surprising. In Japan, manners are everything, so here are some insider tips on what to expect when visiting LGBT bars off the beaten path, and how to get the most out of the experience.
Venturing away from westernized gay bars
Photo by: Alex Rickert Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name, but sometimes you gotta venture into the unknown.
Most gay bars in tourist spots prefer Ni-Chome or Doyamacho in Osaka mimic American-style bars that feature large shot bars, dance melody and dark atmospheres where customers of various sexes, genders, sexualities and identities can drink and make merry. You can certainly locate these kinds of bars, esp
Shinjuku Nichome: Stretching Your Yen in the Gayborhood
Shinjuku Nichome is known as Tokyo&#;s gay district. The area is dwelling to high concentration of gay bars, clubs and restaurants—but how do you choose where to go? Here are a few spots we recommend for an evening out in Nichome.
Where to eat
It’s never a good plan to go drinking on an vacant stomach, not just for your health, but also because you might be tempted to purchase overpriced bar snacks later in the night. Here are a couple of options for justified places to nibble in the area.
Agalico
Agalico is a restaurant that serves a variety of Asian cuisine just across the street from Shinjuku Nichome, next to Shinjuku Sanchome station exit C6. Some items on their menu are pricey, but they also have some great value for money dishes, such as the chicken over rice, which for 1, yen will leave one person absolutely stuffed. They also work for glasses of dwelling red or alabaster wine for yen, and they occupy those up right to the brim. Even if you’re feeling fancy, a glass of sparkling wine filled to the brim will set you back just
Shinjuku-Nichome Gay District Serial Murders
a game that was mentioned in an episode of game center cx, as detailed in this tumblr post.
it’s an indie famicom game, presumably with a very tiny print run about solving murders in the gay community, and it sounds like a game from sb’s game ideas megathread. the time limit is displayed as a face gradually growing a beard, and it features an internal clock ensuring it can only be played at night, as that’s when most of the businesses in that district open.
other than that one tumblr post, no-one seems to verb written about this game, there’s no screenshots or videos, and no rom dump. maybe it was made up by the gccx team as a joke? that’s doable, but it seems unlikely. it doesn’t really fit the humour or tone of the show.
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