Kabukicho Macabre Tour: True Crime in Tokyo
I feel I need to start this blog with a couple of caveats. First, I'm not a true crime fan. I find a lot of the media surrounding real life murders, sex crimes, and serial killers to very often have a real rubbernecking quality to it. People gawking at some of the worst crimes humans do to each other because it's very sensationalist. I've found the genre to always be like this. As a kid Time-Life would run adds selling books or video tapes documenting some of the most notorious serial killers in modern American history and it just felt incredibly weird. I get it because the cases and people involved are actually pretty interesting, but at the same time it just feels so voyeuristic at the same time. Second caveat: I have actually never taken a tour in my adult life! Not since grade school where we got ushered around parts of New York City. And they definitely weren't taking us to red light districts of any sort. However, the Kabukicho Macabre Tour was something that cam...