If You Are Going to Zepp Tokyo:

Do NOT use Tokyo Teleport Station on the Rinkai Line or Aomi or Odaiba Kaihin Koen stations on the Yurikamome Line to get to Zepp Tokyo. Get off at another station and take a taxi.

Here’s Why: Japanese police are singling out anybody who happens to be even walking in the same direction as Zepp Tokyo and bullying people into consenting to an illegal search based on zero suspicion. While you may think you have nothing to fear if you’ve done nothing illegal, it’s reckless to needlessly surrender your human rights to fascists who protect and serve only themselves.

By pouncing on and bullying pedestrians, they try to make it look to the public like they are capable of enforcing something other than their lack of ethics. Of course, they are afraid to check the chimpilas (gangster wannabes) who never, ever take the train anywhere, and especially not to a party -- they drive. The cops know this. And this alone makes their little “crackdown” suspect.

Here’s How It Happens: When you come up the escalator from Tokyo Teleport Station, they watch to see which way you are going. If it looks like you are heading toward Zepp, three of them will usually chase after you and attempt to surround you. This is designed to instill fear of authority. Next, they start asking you where you are going and whether or not you will “help” them by submitting to a search. They also do the “friendly cop” thing to coerce you to follow them to a tent they have set up nearby.

Even though they are on no legal ground, they will not let you proceed until you agree to this humiliating search. “Please why don’t you help us make sure you are not a criminal?”
If you try to stand up for your human rights, they turn it around on you. “Oh? WHY won’t you help us? Hmn?”
Get the point?

DO NOT go into their tent! Stay in the open. Stand still and don’t fidget. Do not get upset – they are skilled at bullying people into making enough of a mistake that they can detain you.

So, if you see cops hanging around the top of the escalators or in the plaza outside Tokyo Teleport Station, turn around and walk – do not run – back to the train. Go to the next station and get a taxi back to Zepp.