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Shinjuku Nichome is Tokyo's gay district — and one of the most remarkable LGBTQ+ neighborhoods anywhere in the world. Over 450 bars are packed into a handful of narrow streets, a community that has been building itself for decades, and a...

Finding the right hotel in Tokyo takes a little more thought than it might in other cities — and I speak from experience on both sides of the equation. I spent years as a nomad, living out of hotels and short-term rentals across more tha...

Search "gay massage Tokyo" and you'll find two very different things — sometimes on the same page, sometimes with no clear indication of which is which. I'm Rei, a Tokyo-born gay man who runs a professional massage studio one street away...

Tokyo has some of the best bathing culture in the world. I'm Rei, a Tokyo-born gay man who runs a male massage studio in Shinjuku, literally one street away from Ni-chome, the gay district. Like most Japanese people, I grew up loving ons...

I've been to gay districts in cities across the world — in Europe, Asia, America, and beyond. None of them feels quite like Ni-chome. The numbers are well known: over 450 bars packed into five city blocks, the highest concentration of ga...