Prison Bar?

[dimwit]

Okay, I have a question for you Tokyoites, I was reading an article in a magazine a while ago and it mentioned about some bar/restaurant in Tokyo that was set up like a prison. Is this real or is it just urban legend?

[Mr Doricar]

"My friend" told me the website was

http://www.jail-ory.com/tokyo/

[dimwit]

The article didn't make it sound like a fetish bar, it sounded more like a restaurant except the tables were jail cells, and the waiter were prison guards.

[TennoChinko]

The Lock Up

The Lock Up
Oriental Wave 5F, 5-17-13 Shinjuku
TEL. 03-5272-7055
To get there, take the Kabuki-cho exit from the JR station, cross the street, and turn right at "Don Quixote" (it's a very loud and gaudy store with random junk and that is relative to the area it's in so it should be fairly obvious). Reservations, highly reccomended, 1 hour+ waits aren't uncommon.

The Lockup, 5-17-13 Shinjuku 5F (5272-7055, Shinjuku), is a Shinjuku original that has since spawned several branches elsewhere in Tokyo. It has a hybrid prison/dungeon/horror movie theme: customers are led to tables inside stone cells by waitresses in plastic-miniskirt police uniforms, where they are "locked up" and given menus filled with bizarre drinks (the most well-known of which consists of a rack of test tubes filled with flavored syrups, a flask full of alcohol, and a beaker to mix everything in) and relatively normal food. Twice every night, a "jailbreak" is staged in which the lights go out and costumed hoodlums scare the living daylights out of random patrons. Open until 5 am.

[emperor]

There's a 'Lock Up' in Ikebukero too - at least there was in 2003/04

it's not far from the Sunshine building

[AssKissinger]

This place is pretty fun

http://gaijintonic.com/2007/03/22/alcatraz-er/

http://alcatraz.hy-system.com/

[maraboutslim]

There is/was also that place in Shibuya center-gai area that is super dark and all the tables are in like little tiny separate/private rooms (you can see in them through windows/doors though). Can't remember the name. It's a good place to spend the night eating/drinking/etc. with a chick if you can't get a hotel.

Speaking of weird restaurants, there is/was a place near sakuragicho (yokohama near landmark tower) that was like a submarine or something. Every hour or so, sirens would go off and water would come rushing down the center aisle of the restaurant.

[Charles]

I could swear I saw an old FG thread about a bar/restaurant with prison cells, including pictures, but I searched and searched and could not find it.

[halfnip]

I could swear I saw an old FG thread about a bar/restaurant with prison cells, including pictures, but I searched and searched and could not find it.

You must be talking about Lock Up. http://r.gnavi.co.jp/g528911/

There's one in Shibuya and Shinjuku as well. The food is shiiiet, but it's not a bad place if you want to have a gokon or something. Haha...

Has anyone been to the ninja place in Akasaka before?

[Phoenix_stu]

Hmm. Charles, I am a bit dissapointed. Not really. You didn't do your homework very well. It took me all of 5 minutes of searching and found several variations of it.

Ever wondered what it's like behind bars? Handcuffs your thing? Walk into Alcatraz, a theme bar named after the famed (and infamous) Rock of Alcatraz. A blue-clad "prison warden" will cuff you and lead you to your "cell" where you'll eat and drink jail-themed stuff. Contrived, of course, but what theme bar isn't?


http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fg20070427jb.html
http://www.freshread.com/archives/2005/04/20/alcatraz-the-restaurant/

http://www.hy-system.com/

Alcatraz B.C.
2F Elsa Bldg, 3-13-12 Roppongi, Minato-ku
Tel: 03-5410-0012
Open: 6pm-5am Mon-Sat, 6pm-12am Sun.
Cover charge: JY1000.
Nearest stn: Roppongi

Alcatraz A.D.
8-5-6 Ginza, Chuo-ku
Tel: 03-3571-3799
Nearest stn: Ginza

Alcatraz Asia
8-12 Higashi-cho, Hachioji-shi
Tel: 0426-42-5316
Nearest stn: Hachioji

AND I beleive the newest addition to the bunch....
Alcatraz E.R. (Medical Prison)
2F Harvest Bldg. 2-13-5 Dogenzaka, Shibuya, tel: 03-3770-7100.
http://alcatraz.hy-system.com/

[2triky]

You must be talking about Lock Up. http://r.gnavi.co.jp/g528911/

There's one in Shibuya and Shinjuku as well. The food is shiiiet, but it's not a bad place if you want to have a gokon or something. Haha...

Has anyone been to the ninja place in Akasaka before?

I've been to the one in Shibuya.....the food is mediocre at best as you alluded to, but it's an interesting place to say the least...the host wearing a latex micro skirt was a nice touch.

I thought the other one was in Ikebukuro.....I could be wrong.

[Charles]

Hmm. Charles, I am a bit dissapointed. Not really. You didn't do your homework very well. It took me all of 5 minutes of searching and found several variations of it.

I meant I couldn't find the FG thread. Sure there are plenty of external sites, but I coulda sworn I saw something here on FG.

[Oh!Saka!]

Sounds cool. Any in Osaka?

[Oradea]

We have at least one in nagoya, i imagine thered be some in osaka

[2triky]

We have at least one in nagoya, i imagine thered be some in osaka

wow, they have one in nagoya as well? interesting. well i guess the notion of having peculiar themes or motifs seems to play to the genetic predilection for Cosplay