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Read the full nine-page feature in the December of Attitude, out now.īuy now and take advantage of our best-ever subscription offers: 3 issues for £3 in print, 13 issues for £19.99 to download to any device. Tokyo has two of its very own Eagle gay bar locations. The only thing I was a bit sad about was that the candy floss-pink Hello Kitty suites were fully booked. Hotels, where to stay, Tokyo gay bars, restaurants, things to do, the gay district & LGBT rights. Inside, the walls were painted black, biker groups and. This is where the first Eagle bar was born. There are an additional dozen restaurants in the hotel and an outdoor swimming pool, open during summer months. The streets are still smoldering from the Stonewall Riots, gay rights has become a movement, and an old longshoreman’s tavern named Eagle Open Kitchen has just closed its doors.
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My suite was on the Premier Grand level, with access to the 45th-floor club lounge, serving breakfast, afternoon tea, cocktail-hour snacks and stunning views of City Hall. Shin-chidori-gai a back alley where more than 20 bars are located, each about 10’ x 10’, seating 4 to 6 people maximum. I stayed at the Keio Plaza a stunning hotel conveniently located near Shinjuku. Bar Eagle Tokyo with a mural drawing by Jiraiya. Topics: bear bar, eagle tokyo, gay tokyo, gay travel, Hisanori Tamura, lgbt, ni-chome, nichome. When one of the government's law-makers, Mio Sugita, recently said gay people do not deserve welfare because they are unproductive Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzō Abe, responded by declaring that Japan needs to be more accepting of the LGBT+ community.Īdditionally, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government recently passed a bill to ban discrimination against queer people and the government plans to provide shelter to homeless LGBT+ people, as well as have a Pride House for the Olympics. Address: 2-12-3 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, 160-0022 Tokyo. Tokyo is a fascinating city and Japan as a whole is changing it attitudes towards LGBT issues at a radical pace. Eagle has established itself as a popular hang-out in Shinjuku-nichme, thanks to friendly staff, happy-hour prices. In many respects it is still a very closeted nation.īut we still have a blast, even when we had to make a quick exit when were told the go-go boy bar had an outrageous cover charge of £24. If you walk in you will promptly be asked to leave, which happens to me twice when Shintaro was not around to steer me in the right direction. When you leave the main streets, there are also dozens of bars down alleys and up stairways that are not so foreigner-friendly. As we carry on filling up various bars we discover most of the bars only hold a small number of customers, which explains how there are hundreds of them. What caught my eye was the beautiful blue signage that was located outside the bar. During a Saturday night in Tokyo, I decided to check out the Gay District of Shinjuku and explored the area. Taking up every seat in the place we chat with the bashful bearish bartender while sipping on Japanese whisky. Eagle Tokyo is the largest International gay bar located in Shinjuku's gay town.