By Tokyo Reporter Staff A stroll through Takeshita-dori reveals big, bulbous lettering of a variety of colors, painted on the shutters of one shop after another Ueno ‘pink salon,’ with nude hostesses, reeled in punters despite pandemic By Tokyo Reporter Staff on May 25, 2021 Shingo Miyamoto (Twitter)TOKYO (TR) – Another one bites the dust. In an ongoing crackdown on businesses operating in spite of requests from the government to limit operating hours, Tokyo Metropolitan Police have busted a so-called “pink salon” for indecent exposure. According to police, management at Magic Banana, located in the Ueno area, employed female hostesses to provide sex-related services while fully nude.