So I'm interested to hear about the 'edgy' places in Tokyo that people tried to live in and then decided the cheap or rather relatively cheap rent wasn't worth it. My friend's story - she thought it was a great idea to live in Minowa. She'd lived in Korea before so thought she'd seen it all living in one room housing blocks where prossies ran in high heels out of their rooms all hours day and night to go service men in their cars. When they weren't doing that the men were coming into the apartment block and knocking on her door by mistake. She thought Japan would be a piece of cake by comparison.
Except in Minowa she was always being mistake for a prostitute. She has long blonde hair and found out that in her local shopping places it was assumed she was 'one of them'. When she told a local she was an eikaiwa teacher they looked knowingly and told her to be careful with ' 2 jobs'. I thought Minowa was kinda cool but then again nobody thought I was a male prostitute walking around. Anybody here ever lived there?