Mulboyne wrote:the Metropolitan Police Department opposed the request, saying foreigners committed many crimes in that part of the capital, and an all-night club in an area full of drunk people would make Roppongi a hotbed of criminality....

[...Velfarre rejected the police's appraisal, saying that clubs were cultural leisure facilities, had nothing to do with crime and caused no problems if they were open all night. The company intends to resubmit its application in June, when the government will again invite participants to engage in zonal reform.

Captain Japan wrote:.. Is there really a club somewhere in Roppongi that closes at 1AM? Well, I guess aside from Velfarre.

Rob Pongi wrote:


Just an average-sized cock fight, that's all!

Taro Toporific wrote:Yeah, I was wondering what clubs close before 4:20am ---first train. If I'm out after last train, nomally I'm in some small place and closing is when they run out of drinking customers.

GomiGirl wrote:Does Velfarre still run it's day club starting at 4am?

Mulboyne wrote:Yes. Sundays from 3:30am.

GuyJean wrote:Someone better tell these Roppongi girls to go home before the 1am kurfew..
GJ

Mulboyne wrote:Avex has announced that they will be closing Velfarre in Roppongi at the end of the year.

Mulboyne wrote:Avex has announced that they will be closing Velfarre in Roppongi at the end of the year.

Mulboyne wrote:Avex has announced that they will be closing Velfarre in Roppongi at the end of the year.

Captain Japan wrote:Not more than a few months ago, Avex was running ads seeking staff to run the new cafe area they had set up on the first floor, outside. At least the ads made it sound as if it were new. Seems strange that they'd now be dumping the whole operation.

Mulboyne wrote:Avex has announced that they will be closing Velfarre in Roppongi at the end of the year.

Mulboyne wrote:Avex has announced that they will be closing Velfarre in Roppongi at the end of the year.

GomiGirl wrote:Really? Are there any other day clubs? We were hunting for one at 7am the other morning in Shinjuku after all the other dance clubs closed and nearly went over there in desperation. In the end we just headed home.

Three nightclubs in the Roppongi entertainment district of Minato Ward, Tokyo, have been closed down for up to about three months by the Tokyo Metropolitan Public Safety Commission for opening all night, sources said Saturday. Though the Metropolitan Police Department has asked the commission to punish nine other clubs, a cat-and-mouse game is likely, as nightclubs try new tactics to evade the crackdown. Nightclubs in Roppongi are popular as customers can dance until late at night. In the past, some clubs have applied for the district to be designated by the government as a special area where regulations on the hours they are permitted to open can be relaxed. But residents have voiced complaints about the current situation surrounding clubs in Roppongi, as some of them continue to stay open all night purporting to be restaurants. Under the Law to Control Business Affecting Public Morals, nightclubs are prohibited from being open between midnight and dawn. But in some entertainment districts in Tokyo, such as Roppongi and Shinjuku, the metropolitan government's ordinance allows them to open until 1 a.m. as an exceptional measure.

However, it has become a common practice for most nightclubs to illegally stay open until the early hours of the morning, and residents near schools in the districts have voiced complaints and criticism. One of them said, "Why haven't the authorities addressed the situation where primary school students on their way to school have to avoid drunk people leaving clubs?" The MPD inspected 15 nightclubs in Roppongi in July and issued warnings to all of them for staying opening beyond the time limit imposed by the law. MPD officers visited the clubs again in August and asked the commission to punish 12 of them for remaining open beyond the time limit. The commission ordered three of them to close for two to three months starting Friday and questioned managers of the remaining nine clubs to decide whether the same penalty should be imposed on them.

The MPD said since the inspection in August most nightclubs in Roppongi now close by the time limit. But some of the clubs began new methods of conducting business that may be unlawful. One of the three punished clubs, located on the third floor of a multitenanted building near Roppongi-dori avenue, resumed operations on the second floor of the same building Friday night. The space on the second floor is registered as a restaurant instead of a nightclub. Thus the operation is not regulated by the law concerning opening hours. But the second floor space has a similar dance floor to that on the closed third floor, and the signboard is the same as that of the closed nightclub. The Web site of the "restaurant" only said that business on the third floor was "suspended because of refurbishment work to improve earthquake resistance." The Web site made no mention of the nightclub receiving an order to close temporarily.

Many young people who visit the nightclubs voiced dissatisfaction over the MPD's hard-line stance. One of them said, "I'm not happy that the police have suddenly cracked down after leaving them untouched for so long." Another said, "Do the police want to do away with nightclubs in Roppongi?" In November last year, managers of some nightclubs in Roppongi applied for the area to be designated as a structural reform special area where nightclubs are allowed to stay open all night. They insisted that allowing them to remain open all night, like nightclubs in Paris and London, would increase tourists and revitalize the district. But the police authorities opposed it, saying that the measure might make the district a hotbed for crime.

Captain Japan wrote:The names of the clubs aren't included. Why? In the photo below the name of club has been scrambled:

KanpaiQuigley wrote:Speak of the devil! That's Vanilla! I just checked the site, and it says it's only open til Midnight now! Fuck!

http://clubvanilla.com/pc.html

IkemenTommy wrote:Vanilla always has the Jiggers and Wannabees who think they are black so I've just about had it with that place.

Samurai_Jerk wrote:I'm sure AO will have something to say about that.