Kabukichō
Kabukichō is an entertainment district in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Kabukichō is considered a red-light district with a high concentration of host and hostess clubs, love hotels, shops, restaurants, and nightclubs, and is often called the "Sleepless Town".Photo: Prcmise, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: Quarter with 2,300 residents
- Description: quarter located in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
- Also known as: “Kabuki-chō” and “Kabukicho”
Photo: Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shinjuku Station and Tōhō Cinemas.
Shinjuku Station
Railway station
Photo: MaedaAkihiko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shinjuku Station is a major railway station in Tokyo, Japan, that serves as the main connecting hub for rail traffic between central/eastern Tokyo and Western Tokyo on the inter-city rail, commuter rail, and subway lines.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shinjuku and Nishi-Shinjuku.
Nishi-Shinjuku
Quarter
Photo: Morio, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nishi-Shinjuku is a neighborhood and skyscraper business district in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, Japan. The neighborhood is located west of Shinjuku Station and consists of 8 chōme, or Streets. The region was previously called Tsunohazu.
Kabukichō
- Categories: chōchō, entertainment district, red-light district, and locality
- Location: Shinjuku, Tokyo, Tokyo, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.69454° or 35° 41′ 40″ northLongitude
139.70271° or 139° 42′ 10″ eastPopulation
2,300Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)Inception
April 1st, 1948Open location code
8Q7XMPV3+R3OpenStreetMap ID
node 1952395613OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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Satellite Map
Discover Kabukichō from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Kabukichō” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كابوكي تشو”
- Arabic: “كابوكيتشو”
- Basque: “Kabukichō”
- Bengali: “কাবুকিচো”
- Catalan: “Kabukichō”
- Chinese: “歌舞伎町”
- Dutch: “Kabukichō”
- Finnish: “Kabukichō”
- French: “Kabuki-chō”
- French: “Kabukichō”
- German: “Kabukichō”
- Greek: “Καμπούκι-τσο”
- Greek: “Καμπούκιτσο”
- Hungarian: “Kabukichō”
- Hungarian: “Kabukicsó”
- Italian: “Kabukichō”
- Japanese: “Kabuki-chō”
- Japanese: “かぶきちょう”
- Japanese: “歌舞伎町”
- Korean: “가부키초”
- Macedonian: “Кабукичо”
- Malay: “Kabukichō”
- Persian: “کابوکیچو”
- Portuguese: “Kabuki-chō”
- Portuguese: “Kabukicho”
- Portuguese: “Kabukichō”
- Russian: “Кабуки-тё”
- Russian: “Кабукичё”
- Scots: “Kabuki-chō”
- Scots: “Kabukichō”
- Slovenian: “Kabukičo”
- Spanish: “Kabuki-chō”
- Spanish: “Kabukicho”
- Spanish: “Kabukichō”
- Thai: “คาบูกิโจ”
- Turkish: “Kabuki-chō”
- Turkish: “Kabukichō”
- Ukrainian: “Кабукі-чо”
- Ukrainian: “Кабукічо”
- Urdu: “کابوکیچو”
- “Kabuki-chō”
- “Kabukichō”
- “かぶきちょう”
- “歌舞伎町”
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