Tokyo Girls

[cstaylor]

Related story: Most long-time Tokyo residents will tell you that Roppongi has gone down market and seedy.

I've never been to Roppongi... is it as bad as the article makes it sound?

[kamome]

Mini-G is right as always. Roppongi is for losers. Better to stick to the nice parts of Tokyo, if you have the cash to spend.

[mercutio]

In Magda's case, her short career as a hostess in Roppongi ended when she met and fell in love with a Canadian fitness instructor who bought her out of her contract.

Damnit does this mean i need to add money to my budget for buying out hotess contracts too!! damnit... now its just "ho' money, ho' money, ho' money!"

[Mr. BIG]

I've never lived in Tokyo, and I've never been to Roppongi at night, so I don't know how much weight my opinion has in this, but....

Last summer I stayed in Tokyo for a long weekend with a Japanese buddy of mine.....he was from the 'inaka', so we stayed in capsule hotels for the length of the trip. One night our hotel happened to be in Ikebukuro-it's right down the street from Rikkyou Daigaku, and except for a few gentlemens' clubs scattered about, it seemed like an OK place during the day.

At night, me and my buddy went strolling around some Tokyo hotspots, and our way back through the streets around Ikebukuro just amazed me....the crowd shifted suddenly from hoards of drunken young people into shifty-looking salary-men and even shiftier-looking girls standing around....one lady from south-america asked me in engrish if I was looking 4 a massage.....I said 'no english'......

In short, Ikebukuro was a real scumm-den at night. It sounds a lot like the descriptions of Roppongi that were posted earlier, and if any veterans have some input it would really clear up my misconceptions about Roppongi!![/list]