Talk:Ikebukuro

Importance
High:Subject contributes a depth of knowledge to the encyclopedia. Must have had a large impact in Japan, and had some impact outside Japan, as well as sub-articles of core topics (e.g., Edo period, Yasukuni Shrine).

Mid:Subject fills in more minor details, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic. Important in Japan, but not necessarily known as well outside of Japan. (e.g., Cuteness in Japanese culture).

I am playing it safe, and going with Mid level importance for now. This is, essentially, a sub-article of Tokyo, which is a Top-level article, and this article has a number of sub-articles, e.g. Sunshine 60.--James Chenery (talk) 04:55, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

"Pleasure District"?
I'm puzzled by the last sentence of the 4th paragraph in this article:

"There is a small pleasure district located in Nishi-Ikebukuro, similar to Shinjuku's Kabukichō."

What does that even mean? What is a "pleasure district"? (How does it differ from a "pain district"?) What is "Nishi-Ikebukuro"? What does the string "Nishi-" mean? (This isn't used anywhere else in this article, is not defined anywhere in this article.)

Why is Kabuki-cho a "pleasure district"? "Kabuki" means "theatre", not "pleasure", and "kabuki-cho" means "theatre town". Certainly one can gain pleasure from watching plays, but this would be like calling every cinema or theater a "pleasure palace"; sounds disparaging.

I googled for ("Ikebukuro" "pleasure district"), but other than many, many hits for "There is a small pleasure district..." (hundreds of plagiarizations of this article), there is nothing. Googling for ("Ikebukuro" "pleasure district" -"there is a small") yields few hits, none relevant. So I see no evidence for the existence of anything called "pleasure district" in Ikebukuro.

LoneWolfiNTj (talk) 07:28, 27 October 2019 (UTC)