Most of the Japanese workers here have 12 hour work days and then go to girls bars (hostess bars) or regular bars or karaoke joints and get drunk like they are still in high school. In Tokyo, i started to take photos with my phone of all the salarymen that id see passed out drunk on the ground, or in the train station with vomit on their slacks. I learned a long long time ago NOT to drink to the point of being incoherent because in the USA both men and women will easily be taken advantage of by vultures in different ways if they don't look like they are homeless and they are passed out in public.
My first client in Tokyo was a gaijin who lived in an upscale high rise in Roppongi. Heres some shots from his lobby and balcony. I look really content and happy because i had no idea if I was going to be able to work here like this so easily (sometimes ill post up in a new U.S city and the phone barely rings enough to pay for the ad). This is one of my first successful sessions in Tokyo in a not so shabby apartment. Actually, the lobby was way more impressive than the actual apartment which was smaller than my apartment in LA.
There are LOVE HOTELS everywhere that are designed for a sex worker to see clients. These hotels are fancy adult theme rooms and rent space usually in 2-3 hr increments for cheap and clean fun. I will be posting about LOVE HOTELS soon. Tattoos for Japanese people are extremely taboo. People with tattoos are not allowed in most public baths and bigger public swimming pools. Some places will have signs requiring you to cover them and other places will be more strict with stronger signs warning you that you will be removed if a tattoo is found! My client and I both have similar cultural tattoos and stories of our life inked on our bodies. For Westerners tattooing is often about commemoration of a certain time in one's life or of a loved one who passed away. In older Japan, tattoos are/were reserved for gangsters, criminals and laborers. Even adult porn movies ban tattoos if they are below the waist! I've bought a rash guard and boy shorts to cover my tatts so I could swim in pools with my relatives and lap swim for exercise. In public baths, you are naked so the full body swimsuit is not an option and i have to just miss out of this amazing part of Japanese culture. I love taking baths and Japan has hot springs or sentos that are set in natural setting amidst beautiful views and rocks and waterfalls in some places. Even the local monkeys will be seen bathing in the winter to keep warm but i guess tattooed people are seen as less than monkeys for some old school Japanese. There are Korean spas that don't have this policy and i was able to get my spa ritual on in Osaka. There is a website that lists the places that tattooed people can still go to. Many places have private rooms you can rent which allow a loophole but an extra expense for the foreign visitor in this situation.