Tokyo Massage Parlors: Hopping on through Mita
High on a hill in Tokyo’s central Mita district, the Australian Embassy is easy to spot. Two national coats of arms bolted to the outside of the building feature oversize images of emus and kangaroos, designated as symbols of this self-styled progressive nation because they supposedly can’t walk backwards.
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“Some of our best business years were in the 1950s,” Hasegawa recalls. “Young men traveled here from the countryside to help build Tokyo Tower. Before they went home, they came here to have a suit made to show their families they had been successful in the city.”
He goes on the explain that the street was until recently inhabited mostly by field hands who’d come to Tokyo to find better-paying work. “That’s why we have the Kakashi Matsuri (Scarecrow Festival) on our street every October. In fact, of all the festivals in the whole city of Tokyo, ours was voted the best!”
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