Japan has all for gay travellers. From the chaotic streets of Tokyo to the quiet onsens of Hakone, the history of Kyoto, and the sumptuo food Osaka.
Contents:
- JAPAN GAY TRAVEL
- TOKYO GAY NIGHT TOURS WH TOKYO HANDSOME BOYS
- THE BOYS OF SHJU: IS TOKYO'S GAY DISTRICT DOOMED?
- ASIAN MAN ON TRA SAYS HE WANTS AMERIN TO HAVE GAY SEX WH HIM
- THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A YOUNG GAY MAN MET STRANGERS ON AN ITALIAN TRA
- THE 10 BEST TOKYO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TOKYO
- SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
JAPAN GAY TRAVEL
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Japan’s cultural norms and s attus around homosexualy are difficult to terpret. LGBTQ+ travel expert Ed Salvato shows around the gayborhood and shar his safety tips. Sexualy – homo or hetero – is nsired a private matter; It’s not flnted public displays of affectn or discsed.
Bee of this, much of lol gay life is not jt hidn – ’s accsible. That said, homosexualy is legal Japan, wh small protectns for gays, lbians and even transgenr people enacted mostly on a lol level. Japane travel provirs are also startg to regnise the gay travel market.
Tokyo has hundreds of gay bars, but only a handful wele foreigners. As openly gay travelers (who ed the word hband, but didn’t hold hands public), we felt pletely fortable and wele.
TOKYO GAY NIGHT TOURS WH TOKYO HANDSOME BOYS
Our gay cultural tour of the famo island natn of Japan clus samurai lsons, hand-feedg er, Mt. Fuji, and a bullet tra ri! * japanese gay train *
Tokyo gayborhood. This is where you’ll fd the gay neighbourhood and the most ncentrated dose of queer travel Japan offers.
Near the seedy red-light district is Ni-chome district, a clter of olr low-rise buildgs wh hundreds of tablishments oriented towards gay men. Dpe the hundreds of gay bars Tokyo, there are only a few optns for non-Japane speakg ctomers. OutAsia Travel offers night tours of Shju — basilly a gay gui to brg you to two or three of the bars that wele foreigners, and generally show you around.
Dancg was banned Shju’s gay clubs startg Augt of 2012, wh signs and tabl stalled on the dance floor to ter dancg. For the most extensive and up-to-date bar, club and sna listgs, the bt reference is A prtout of their gay map is also very eful.
THE BOYS OF SHJU: IS TOKYO'S GAY DISTRICT DOOMED?
Tokyo's gay scene is 300 bars and clubs packed to two blocks, where, perhaps surprisgly an otherwise regimented society, has been anythg go for s. So why, asks our Tokyo rrponnt David McNeill, is the wilst party town g to an end? * japanese gay train *
Full-erary planng assistance: In our search for assistance and rmatn, all gay roads Tokyo led to Shtaro, the owner of OutAsia Travel.
He was open and hont about what is like to be gay Japan and he opened doors, lerally and figuratively, to the hidn world of the gay bars and loung Nichome.
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In 1980, a gay man hid two journals above a light fixture a stiflg apartment Tokyo. Thirty years later, an Amerin teenager disvered . * japanese gay train *
Outsi of the few bigger dance clubs, the Nichome gay bar scene is much more personal and timate than I was ed to g om the US.
Read our transparency report to learn was a great gui for our group of three iends who wanted to explore the gay nightlife scene Tokyo. Read our transparency report to learn 2019Naoki is as kd as he is passnate about gay Tokyo! We uldn't believe there are over 400 gay bars Tokyo when the Lonely Pla book has 1 sgular page about LGBTQ night life/culture their gui book.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A YOUNG GAY MAN MET STRANGERS ON AN ITALIAN TRA
Explore our gay travel gui to Japan featurg LGBTQ+ safety tips, gay rights , top ci & attractns, where to stay and more! * japanese gay train *
He showed the gayborhood and several fun plac. This tour ma possible for to accs Tokyo's gay scene Shju. Read our transparency report to learn SSydney, Atralia49 ntributnsWe did the gay bar tour last night (Monday).
Lots of fun experiencg the gay district wh a lol. Only the lobby, cheerily adorned wh scen om a sex movie that pict a portly pany print beg diligently serviced by a young apprentice, do bee clear that this is one of Asia's biggt gay the ticket mache – 2, 600 yen (about £18) for a 13-hour stay – and pretty much anythg go, say guts who e om across Japan, and even abroad, to sample s treats. "This is a untry that happily liv wh ntradictns, " says Taq Otsa, thor of several books on Japan's gay scene.
" Th, Tokyo, a cy wh a reputatn as one of the most uptight, buttoned-down pals, also boasts, s Shju district, one of the world's nst and most diverse ncentratn of gay bars and clubs: the Ni-chome (pronounced "nee-chomay") area. "But, roughly half a century sce emerged as a refuge for homosexuals what was formerly a red-light district, the block is cle. The lol mercial anisatn that promot Ni-chome timat that the number of gay bars the area has fallen by at least a third the past .
THE 10 BEST TOKYO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TOKYO
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The once exclively male gay clientele is filled out at the weekends wh the straight, the female and the simply cur. "Are gays vanishg om Shju Ni-chome!?, " wonred one of the untry's most popular magaz recently.
He c the 2004 closure of the famo gay magaze Barazoku after 33 years as a key moment. "That was a symbolic event when the ter overtook gay culture here. "Ftgly, perhaps, as he shouts over the noise of the dis, Gloria Gaynor's great gay anthem "I Will Survive" poundg out of the partly mirrors the chang Japan's gay culture.
SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
A prevly anonymo IRS whistleblower ttifyg about an vtigatn to Hunter Bin me forward Wednday, intifyg as a gay Democrat. * japanese gay train *
The ia that gay people uld share a life together was a fairy-tale. "Though blighted by the typil agoni of personal inty and need for secrecy, gays and lbians Japan neverthels did not suffer the same outright reprsn as those other parts of the world. Discrimatn Bra and the US, at least until the 1960s, was "horrendo", pots out Mark McLelland, a UK-born amic and thor of Homosexualy Morn Japan: Cultural Myths and Social Reali.
"While Brish ps were still btg men public parks, Japan didn't even have an anti-sodomy law, nor what McLelland lls the "anti-homosexual rage" of many Christian cultur, the lethal fuel for homophobia and the "hyper-vlence" of gay-bashg cints. As Otsa puts : "Homosexualy was never nsired a s here, jt shameful.