So last night I had to go out and see what the club scene was like.

We got instructions from an avid clubber that worked at the hostel. That took us to a place called “WOMB”.

Getting to the club we had to wind through streets that took us down into a very small street. The streets in the area that lead up to the club were just littered with “love hotels” where you could rent a room for a “stay” or for a “rest”.

When we finally arrived to the door there was no signage. Just a man at the door wearing coveralls and an earpiece in his ear.

We were instructed by the man at the door that the main floor was closed and that only the lounge would be open. We came all the way so we decided that we’d go in anyways.

He let us into a door which looked like a back door to a building. Just a large steel door. When we got inside there was another man waiting inside there, wearing similar coveralls and another large steel door. We were instructed to just wait for a second.

Then he opened the door. And we could hear a faint thumping of the bass. Getting through that door lead us to a girl who checked our ID. I handed her my Manitoba driver’s license. The line kept moving forward where the next girl took my money, ¥2,000 cover charge. Once we paid we walked over to another steel door where another person was waiting to open it for us.

He opened the door and the faint thumping of the bass turned into a heavy bass undertone and full out music could be heard. We finally arrived at the “lounge”.

The “lounge” was pretty tiny. It was smaller than Hi-Fi, a local Winnipeg club. It would’ve been about the size of just the upper part of Hi-Fi with the bar taking up an eighth of the space and a designed corner for the DJ marked off with temporary steel railings.

There was about three couches for seating room which were ropes off. I guess for VIPs.

The music being played was house/trance. We went to the bar to buy a couple drinks. There was a small menu of about 80 drink listed. Seperated by vodka based, gin based, rum based, liquers, beers, wines and miscellaneous.

They didn’t have any whiskey and I didn’t see vodka and 7up on the menu so I ordered a screwdriver. That was about 500¥. I had a couple redbull vodkas after which were 1000¥.

As the lounge started filling up with people a few people were kind of dancing.

We decided to leave at about 1am since the music was not the preferred choice.

After leaving WOMB we came across another club. Vuenos. We asked what kind of music was being played, they told us hip hop. So we decided to head in. After a quick pat down and a cover charge of 3000¥ which included a free drink we entered into a smoke filled room. About the size of TYC’s dancefloor. There were about 20-30 people standing around. And then the music changed and kanye’s good life came on. You could hear an uproar of people. I walked towards the center of the room and over a ledge and looked down. The lower leve was packed shoulder to shoulder. Hordes of people were cheering!

We went down to the lower level and saw a stage where the DJ and a couple of dancers were on stage. We got our free drinks and walked into the large crowd. Everyone was dancing But then I noticed everyone was facing the same direction. They were all facing towards the stage. Groups of friends were standing next to each other, not facing each other dancing in a circle like we do at home. But all watching the state. Even when the girls stopped dancing and there wasn’t anything happening on stage they all faced the stage still. It was the weirdest thing. People would cut through the crowd and them stop right in front of you and start dancing. If it was a girl you be facing her back.

And for being such a packed crowd the people going through the crowd were still courteous to put their hand out so you knew they were coming and didn’t move till you stepped away.

The music was slightly behind by 6 months. And when the DJ played Kanye, Wu-Tang of any really mainstream music the crowd would go wild. I did hear some music I’d never heard before and prolly wouldn’t hear anywhere outside Japan either.

We ended up taking a cab home at 2 from Shibuya which eneded up costing the four of us 6,000¥. The subway stops running at midnight and doesn’t start back up till 5am. Often when people are out clubbing they’ll be out till 5 am since it costs so much to take a cab home. But we left early cause we had to be up and out the next morning.