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Kabukicho

/ka.bu.kit.ʃo/

proper noun/ka.bu.kit.ʃo/

Kabukicho, Kabukichō (a red-light district in Tokyo, Japan)

Borrowed from Japanese 歌舞伎町 (Kabuki-chō, literally “Kabuki Town”), from being a district developed around what was to be a kabuki theatre (the theatre was never built).