Susukino (すすきの) is a red-light district in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan.It is one of the major red-light districts in Japan along with Kabukichō, Tokyo, and Nakasu, Fukuoka.Currently, the district is congested with many restaurants, bars, hotels, and adult-entertainment establishments.

Background. At the beginning of the 17th century, the center of government moved to Edo from Kamigata under the control of the Tokugawa shogunate.Until the early Edo period, the Kamigata dialect, the ancestor of the modern Kansai dialect, was the most influential dialect.However, in the late Edo period, the Edo dialect, the ancestor of the modern Tokyo dialect, became the most …