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Tokyo after midnight, one missed last train at a time
Based in Shibuya, Tokyo.
Rubén runs the door lists and 12-person bookings for stag weekends across Shibuya's Center Gai clubs and the Golden Gai micro-bars in Shinjuku. He tracks which venues enforce the passport-on-entry rule for foreign groups and which izakayas will seat a dozen people without a deposit.
A door-by-door, yen-by-yen route through Electric Town's maid cafés, arcades, and idol theatres for the two hours between a Tokyo office and the last train home.
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