Got back a couple weeks ago now from a week long trip to Tokyo and finally getting to finishing writing about it. Was my first time there and my first time traveling somewhere solo just for vacation. Overall, I went out 4/7 nights I was there and ended up getting the flag my last night in Tokyo. I stayed in Roppongi at a pretty good location only a short walk away from the clubs and bars nearby. Tons of Nigerians and "massage" ladies roam the streets at night, but if you just ignore them and use common sense about not entering sketchy bars you'll be fine.
Didn't day game much while here, but there's loads of beautiful women out and about in Tokyo. Girls seemed to dress up even if they were just going to the local FamilyMart. I did about 15-20 approaches while just sightseeing during the week using the whole asking for directions shtick, but most girls just had terrible English and I had no Japanese. Asking a pair of girls to take a picture of me worked well too. The Japanese girls seemed pretty friendly from what I saw. Only got one total blowout while walking around Roppongi at night where this girl wouldn't even look up from her phone. All you can do is laugh at that shit.
I also tried Tinder out here, but found it to be a total waste of time. When I last used Tinder a couple years ago in the States, I'd get a decent match rate in a much smaller city and girls who were down for dates/easy bangs. I ended up trying Tinder plus (you only get like 20 likes per day or some BS now), but it was a waste. Must have swiped damn near every girl in Tokyo, I'm talking 300+ girls and never running out of girls to swipe. Only 20 or so matches, of which a few were fakes/whores/trannies, most never replied to the first message, and the one cute girl I actually talked with just wanted to waste my time. After the third time I asked her out when she ignored my question and asked me another “So tell me X about you” I just stopped using this app. Maybe you'll have better luck than me, but I think Tinder is a low percentage play out here.
Onto the nights out:
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Saturday: I got in late Friday and passed out after finding my room. Went out Saturday night and met up with Armogan from the forums. Cool guy with no approach fear. We hit up a couple bars in the Shinjuku/Roppongi area, most notably
R2, which is right across from the now closed Feria. Decent crowd in there, but supposedly its better on Friday nights. We spoke to a pair of girls sitting at the bar, but they weren't drinking much or down to go to the club.
Hit up
V2 after, a nearby club with a decent amount of foreigners there. Y3500 to get in and a couple drinks. Medium sized club on the 13th floor of some building, it was a little too packed in there. Lots of talent though. Armogan opened up a pair of girls and we started talking with them. They spoke good English. I ended up running into this same girl a couple drinks later and danced with her this time. We grinded and made out a little bit. At this point it was near 2 am and we had been dancing for about ten minutes already, so I should have just pulled her outta the club. Dunno what I was thinking, low-energy play. Anyway her friend eventually comes back and they talk for a bit, and she turns around and says she has to go to the bathroom, but will be right back. I know this is her exit move, so I grab her drink and say I'll hold it for her. Salvaged something from the exchange.
I wander the club for a bit before running into Armogan again. We decide to go to nearby
Jumanji. Y2000 to get in with one drink. This place was packed, but in the worst possible way. A sausage fest where you can barely move around, I'm talking minimum 80/20 guys to girls. We down our drinks and don't spend too much time here. After getting some sushi, along with some sake and more beer, we decide to hit up another club. I'm pretty hammered at this point, so I don't remember the name of the place, but the ratios here were a lot better. By 4:30 or so, I'm not having any success here, and feeling pretty done I head out. Man, Tokyo at 5 am is something I haven't seen before. Drunk people stumbling out of the clubs, Nigerians still trying to get you to come to their tittie bars, and countless cries of “massage?” Good times.
On Sunday I went to
Summersonic with Armogan. This is a big music festival in Tokyo, and there were plenty of hot girls out here, many dressed in the typical Coachella slut attire. I didn't run any game here as I just wanted to get a good spot for the show. I ended up getting sick here too, so I spent Monday like Hillary, trying to suppress coughing fits. Coughing up phlegm isn't the best look for getting girls, so I got some medicine and spent time trying Tinder here.
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Tuesday: Still felt sick, but also like I had to go out. I popped into R2, but there wasn't anything going on in there, so I left after a drink. Wandered around aimlessly seeing if anything looked good before settling at
Geronimo, a small dive bar with a mostly foreign staff. It was dead in here so I talked with the guys there and ended up having a good time anyway. Multiple shots on the house so I got pretty drunk within an hour or so.
At some point a few girls trickle in and stick around, including a pair of older Thai girls and a Japanese girl who was so unremarkable that the only thing I remember about her was that she had glasses. So a 5 probably. I opened her soon after and mentioned the Summersonic Festival as a reason for visiting Japan. When she asks for my favorite band and instantly responds “WOW, ME TOO!!” I start thinking this could be easy. However, the younger of the two Thai girls (looks early 30s) keeps eyeing me, so I ditch the safe 5 to go approach the marginally more attractive, easier looking Thai girl. This was a big mistake, and afterward I noticed all the obvious red flags that I'd failed to acknowledge when I was thinking with my dick. She was a working girl.
After about 10 minutes of small-talk she's already rubbing her hands (red flag) on my thighs so we bounce. Her and her friend (red flag) want to get some food and I'm hungry too so I think nothing of it. We go to this nearby sports bar that I'm pretty sure is just called Sports Bar. Order a pizza and some drinks. I order water despite the girl bugging me to keep drinking with her (red flag). I'm anxious to pull and ditch the friend, so I don't wait too long to get the bill. See these bitches ordered Y2500 glasses of champagne (red flag). I'm a cheapskate when it comes to nightlife and I hate spending money on girls I haven't banged. So this naturally pisses me off. The girls have no intention of paying for it so I pay and insist they follow me.
They want to go out and keep drinking but I'm not trying to waste anymore time or money, so I lead them towards my place. When we get there and I insist we come up, the girls keep saying no until I say bye. The main girl then says to me “We can come up if you give us money,” so now my drunken self finally knows and I just give her a pissed look before walking away. I went back to Geronimo and told one of the bartenders about the whole thing. He didn't know the Thai girls, but pointed out a group of foreign white girls now sitting there drinking. They were working girls who try to pick up men who go out on the weeknights where its less busy. I remembered that earlier I'd seen them and the Thai girls acknowledge one another. Felt like an idiot about the whole thing but at least I didn't blow a ton of money to go out and let them get hammered and potentially rob me on my dime. Be careful if you're going out alone.
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Wednesday: At the end of last night, I went to
Matsue Sushi in Roppongi. Definitely recommend this place for some sushi and beer. Really friendly staff there, including this guy who spoke pretty good English. He offered to take me out for a Japanese night of drinking, so I met up with him at 2 AM this night. I had planned on seeing if I could pull a girl and somehow get her out by 2, but with nothing happening by midnight I just met up and drank and ate with this guy. Had some good conversation and Chinese practice as well. However, the guy was married and asked me in a semi-serious manner if “I was one of those players or not,” so I didn't do any approaches with him. When I was walking home around 5 AM I passed by some visibly wasted white guy walking alone with a group of Nigerians. They were guiding him along and as we walked near each other I heard one guy say to him "the strip club is this way," so I tapped him on the arm and told him not to go

. Hopefully he didn't wake up in his underwear the next morning in some Pachinko's with all his money gone.
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Thursday: It's my last night in Tokyo and technically still my birthday back home, so I figure I gotta put in a real solid effort out tonight. I started out at Geronimo again, but this time there's no girls and its too busy to really chat up the staff. I have a couple beers before trying Jumanji again since the bartender said it was the place to find the Gaijin-hunters. Y1000 to get in with one drink, but the place is a bust again. This time its pretty dead, but there's still no girls. The only girls were an ugly one who looked like a hostess and a group of three girls with one guy sitting in one of the curtained off booths. I chat up some Japanese guys around me just to keep the social energy going while I down my redbull vodka.
The Japanese guys recommend
Greenland, which I guess is the new name of Mist, which I'd wanted to check out anyways. 2 drinks Y2000 IIRC. Once again, this place was pretty dead with few girls around. There were a few girls walking around but I'm pretty sure they were working for the club as they knew all the bartenders and sat together at their own table. I approached them anyway after getting a drink but they blew me off after hello. At this point I just want to down my two drinks and hit the next place, but this Japanese guy and I started talking after he sat near me and I asked “Where are all the real girls at?” He laughed and pointed at these two black girls later on. They didn't do anything for me, but I asked him if he liked them and he nodded yes. I winged for him, but whatever it was, me, him, or the pair of us they weren't having it. So after a night of flaming out, its 2 AM and I'm in that solid happy drunk state. The night's still young.
I end up going to
A971, where its pretty quiet aside from a few groups chilling together. And one drunk foreigner yelling in Japanese to the bartenders. I open him and we start chatting. This guy's high energy. Half-Japanese guy who's there with two friends, a black guy who happens to be from the same town as me, and a Japanese girl who speaks good English. She's quite pretty, solid 7 who was probably an 8, 10-15 lbs. ago. I mention that its my birthday even though I'm sure the time has passed, because why turn down the free drinks. Another beer in and the guy asks me if I wanna do some coke with him in the bathroom. Ahh this explains the high energy. Now, this normally isn't a part of day-to-day life for me, but when I've been drinking this long anything free sounds good.
At some point, I'm suddenly alone standing with the Japanese girl at the bar. She's very friendly and touchy with me, and we're both sufficiently inebriated that I know its just don't fuck it up game at this point. We walk out together sometime in the next ten minutes, and I don't even remember what we talked about. I just rambled about some shit in the five minutes it took to walk to my place around the corner. I was a bit forceful when guiding her back to my place, but when we were inside the clothes were off right away. The next morning we fucked again and I learned she had studied in Europe during university and “loved to travel.” The words of a typical gaijin-hunter I presume.
Overall, I really enjoyed Tokyo and especially its nightlife. If you show up in clothes that fit you, go out often, have solid logistics, and approach enough girls you'll probably have a chance to scoop up a Japanese chick looking for some foreign dick. I'm sure there's some skilled players still cleaning up in Roppongi. Also Fri/Sat are definitely the best nights to go out. Thursday was the best weeknight that I had, but even then it was dead compared to the weekend. I've already booked a trip to return to Tokyo for Halloween, but this time I'll be meeting some friends and staying in Shibuya, so I'm curious to see more of what the nightlife is out like there. Also my logistics are gonna suck as I won't have my own room. May have to try a love hotel. Having your own place right by the clubs to bring a girl back to was an advantage for sure.