{"id":4589,"date":"2009-11-08T18:03:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T01:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2010-02-08T18:12:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T01:12:19","slug":"yoshiwara-soaplands-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/yoshiwara-soaplands-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoshiwara &#8211; Soaplands in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/05102448.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/05102448.jpg\" alt=\"tokyo call girls prostitution legal japan\" title=\"yoshiwara sex red light district still exists\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/05102448.jpg 533w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/05102448-166x250.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The famed Yoshiwara (\u5409\u539f) red-light district still exists in Tokyo. Even though prostitution is technically illegal in Japan, the law doesn&#8217;t seem to be enforced. Or perhaps it is written in such a way that things considered prostitution elsewhere are considered legal in Japan. Near the end of the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/tokyo-toden-arakawa-line\/>Toden Arakawa Line<\/a>, or closer yet the south exit at Minowa Station on the Hibiya Line, you can find loads of soaplands (brothels) in the old Yoshiwara (\u6771\u4eac\u90fd\u53f0\u6771\u5343\u675f\uff14\u4e01\u76ee).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/05105919.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/05105919-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"foreigner friendly japan hooker prostitute tokyo\" title=\"Yoshiwara \u5409\u539f red light district soapland japanese escorts sex \" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/05105919-800x524.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/05105919-250x163.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/05105919.jpg 1221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A green-light district? In the above photo you can see a sign for the <I>koban<\/I> (police box) right next to a number of soaplands. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/05103905.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/05103905.jpg\" alt=\"\u6771\u4eac\u90fd\u53f0\u6771\u5343\u675f\uff14\u4e01\u76ee\" title=\"Senzoku Yon-cho-me soaplands sexual services\" width=\"543\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/05103905.jpg 543w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/05103905-169x250.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This picture shows a <I>futon<\/I> hanging out of a window in a soapland. The sign says &#8220;Feel safe in Yoshiwara as it is safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famed Yoshiwara (\u5409\u539f) red-light district still exists in Tokyo. Even though prostitution is technically illegal in Japan, the law doesn&#8217;t seem to be enforced. Or perhaps it is written in such a way that things considered prostitution elsewhere are considered legal in Japan. Near the end of the Toden Arakawa Line, or closer yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4591,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions\/4591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}