Susukino

Susukino (すすきの) is a district in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan known for entertainment and nightlife.

The name Susukino is often written as 薄野 in kanji and ススキノ in katakana, and directly translates as "zebra grass field".

[3] Every August, the Susukino Festival is also held, and the line of people bearing Mikoshi parades down the street.

One of the reasons the Kaitaku-shi constructed a red-light district in this place was to keep laborers engaged in pioneering Hokkaidō in Sapporo.

In the fall of the same year, an act to emancipate prostitutes was announced by the new government, which had little influence on the district.

[7] After all the brothels in Susukino were removed, many restaurants, cafes, and movie theatres were constructed and popularized in their place.

The street stalls were the actual hotbed of the promotion of the prostitution, which were eradicated by their compulsory removal by the government in 1964.

Since the late 1970s, disco-style bars began to be popular in Japan and many discos were constructed in Susukino, while nightclubs decayed.