Police warn of high-pressure sales, fakes on Tokyo’s fashion-forward Takeshita Street

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1. It’s a good thing I went to Takeshita mid-morning during my last visit to Tokyo. That place is probably far more touristy than Nakamise-dori.

2. FTA:

   >As the pair were walking along the main avenue, they were approached by a foreign man. He virtually forced them up to a second-floor clothing shop after saying, “Hey brother, do you want to see some clothes? I know a great place.” Nishiyama explained, “The man was tall and scary, **so I had no choice** but to go into the store.”

   i’ll never understand this logic. i ran into these kind of people when i was there and just told them no.

   like, i get how it could be sketchy and harder to do if you follow them up to an empty 2nd floor office space, but that doesn’t apply out in a busy main street with tons of people in broad day light.

3. I think somebody is trying to sell me something!

4. I’ve been a regular to Takeshita for the past two decades. I did quite a bit of browsing a few weeks ago and the amount of merchandise for sale that I could just buy online from Amazon or were clear knockoffs from China were high. It felt like Santee Alley in downtown LA at times.