Bar Bars in Japan

[dimwit]

I just came across a rather unusal web cam:

from a barber shop

Some Bar Bars seem to play an important role in Japan.

PM's barber keeps 'Beethoven' top of the locks

By YOKO HANI
Staff writer

Tadashi Muragi is a 46-year-old Tokyo hairdresser with a 22-year career of scissor wielding already behind him. Clad in a clean white barber suit at his classically styled, five-seat shop, Muragi may look little different from others of his professional ilk -- though the fact that he is tonsorially responsible for the "lion-haired" head of this country, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, shows just how deceiving looks can be...

"The prime minister comes here without fail every other week to keep his hairstyle unchanged. He is smart," says Muragi, director of Muragi Barber Shop Co. "He has been coming for about 30 years, since before he became a politician." Back then, Koizumi was a lawmaker's secretary.

From the Japan Times

The question is where do you get your haircut?

[IkemenTommy]

I get mine locally, at ANS in Kamikitazawa. Maybe it's because it's a hair salon but I used to cry over the 4400 yen hair cut every time. Now I got used to it and maybe it's a sign that I'm turning Japanese..

[Speed]

Go to the 1,000 yen 10 minute places!

I hit up the QB Houses which are along the train lines here in Kansai.

No need to spend over 4,000 yen for a haircut. You'll look just as good (or bad) with 1,000 yen haircut.

[Big Booger]

I do my own do, marukome style!

[oyajikun]

I pay 4000 yen but that includes shampoo, haircut, shave, shoulder massage, ego massage and hot face towel to boot.

[AssKissinger]

I got a cheap place I go to that'll cut my hair and give me a nice shave for 1,200. It's run by a couple of friendly old ladies who are fun to practice Japanese with. I love getting a straight razor shave. Does anybody do that in America anymore? I used to go to this old guy in Portland called 'Doc' who did it but he retired. Then I started going to this place called, '7 Bucks a whack'. The name pretty much says it all. Anyone know if that place is still open? There was a place in Salt Lake where the dude had these really odd paintings of himself giving haircuts to young boys in big grassy fields. I think getting a haircut is a good thing to do when in a foreign country. It's a nice look into the culture. I've had haircuts in Japan, Korea, India, Nepal and Vietnam. Once in Korea I thought it was a barber because it had that twirling red and blue thing out front but it turned out be a whore house. They really did have all the barber's stuff (as a cover I guess) and since I insisted on a haircut they really fucked up my do.

[IkemenTommy]

I pay 4000 yen but that includes shampoo, haircut, shave, shoulder massage, ego massage and hot face towel to boot.

Yep, mine includes those amenities as well.
The 1000 yen places will use the electric shaver and not scissors. There is a huge difference between those two. The scissors give you a more natural appearance while the electric.. well looks like electric.

I suppose I could go explore different places but I'm too chicken shit to try anything new.

[Big Booger]

Once in Korea I thought it was a barber because it had that twirling red and blue thing out front but it turned out be a whore house. They really did have all the barber's stuff (as a cover I guess) and since I insisted on a haircut they really fucked up my do.

That is the funniest story you have told on here yet.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I love getting a straight razor shave. Does anybody do that in America anymore?

Most places I've been to still do.

[ichigo partygirl]

Japanese hairdressers dont know the meaning of trim when confronted with long blonde gaijin locks. They feel the need to 'convert' me to a japanese style. Even when i plainly say in Japanese a couple of cm off the bottom they dont get it. SO when in japan i get my old host dad to trim my hair - for a computer tech he is handy with the scissors

[Greji]

I pay 4000 yen but that includes shampoo, haircut, shave, shoulder massage, ego massage and hot face towel to boot.

I have to pay 6,000 for the same at Yamamoto's in Azabujuban and Roppong Hills. They do it up right though, and you do feel good afterwards although slightly light in the wallet.

Incidentally, AK mentioned the straight razor. Interestingly, the US military banned the use of them during the advent of the Aids scare when nobody new what it was and most military barbershops, at least in Japan, do not use straight razors to date.

[canman]

Hey Dimwit, I call your barber and raise you a dentist. Here is my dentist's web cam. He is crazy about computers and the internet. He has created a hot spot in his waiting room for patients.
http://cam.f-arts.co.jp/