Michael Cash <buggeroff@fake.com> wrote:

> >> > But knowing his luck, it would end up at an Okama show in Kabukicho...
> >> Lucky if he found the theater in Kabukicho.
> >
> >I've already been to kabuki shows here. 
> 
> Here's a little hint for ya: Kabukicho is a section of Shinjuku and
> has jackshit to do with Kabuki.

Akkerchally, it does have a tenuous connection with kabuki. The
Kabuki-za was fire-bombed during the war--only the foundations were
left. Shinjuku was flattened more comprehensively, so the entire area
got re-organised during the post-war reconstruction. The original
proposal was to rebuild the Kabuki-za where the Koma stadium is now, as
part of a nice, new, clean, salubrious makeover of that area, and it was
re-named Kabukicho in anticipation. But there were so many delays and
political bickerings over the design (not just of the new theater, but
the whole area), that the owners of the Kabuki-za simply went ahead and
rebuilt on the old foundations. 

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