they dont really associate people as Yakuza if you have a tattoo..
thats just a horrible misconception.
living in tokyo i've seen plenty of people with tattos on their arms and legs and backs and necks and all over.
Yakuza tattoos are a very specific style and placed in certain areas.
i wont go into it, but if you do a lil research or watch enuf gangster movies you'll get the idea.
There not gona mistake a guy with a sun tattoed on his arm for a yakuza, thats all im saying.
I personally got my tattoo done in shibuya, i have the card of the place some where in my room, its gona take a lil time to find.
but i remember exactly where it is and how 2get there and who my tattoo artist was.
her name is Ai and speaks english, she is one of 3 tattoo artist at this location in Shibuya, i remembering them telling me they have another location in Ginza.
But say you are comming from the Jr station next to the hachiko statue. if you go to the giant intersection (famous intersection known for being the most trafficked intersection in the world) you'll see tons of buildings with giant screen on them.
if you walk straight directly from that corner diagonally to the other side you'll be walking down a street in Shibuya with tons of arcades and restraunts and stores.
well... almost every street is like this, but you'll come across a Silver heart jewlery place and a ABC Shoes and a HMV, you cant miss it.
Just walk until you get to a 4 way intersection area and youll see a store called CONDOMANIA *its a lil joke store with condoms and random sexual doo dads*
Any ways that will be on the first floor of the building you want to go to.
If you look up you'll see the sign for the tattoo shop, just walk up to the 5th floor i think and there you go.
Its a VERY small shop, but they DO have a larger shop else where.
I do remember passing a few more tattoo parlors in Shibuya, and Kawasaki and Yokohama, but shibya is where i hang out more often. And i really liked my tattoo artist.
If you go to youtube and search the name Housetek you will see Ai and her inking me up in her shop.
if your lazy then just watch here
hope that helps
-htek