A walk through the craziest bars and cafes in Tokyo
We propose a trip through bars and cafes so crazy that you can probably only find them in the Japanese capital. Tokyo goes free. The city where some Starbucks sell beer and close at four in the morning offers all kinds of possibilities and saying “let's go for a drink” is always an adventure.
cafes and animals , that extra combination increasingly common in these lands. The neko cafes that aroused so much attention a couple of years ago are beginning to become somewhat obsolete. You already know about the spidical pace of life in Tokyo. You go to the place, you pay something more than normal for your drink and in return you have a lot of beautiful kittens (and in some cases, perhaps genetically modified) with which to play and pet them. Until now the cats were the stars.
25 cats in the Shibuya neighborhood
A twist is necessary in the city of neon and now the possibility of play with bunnies or owls of the most sociable. If you have not yet had the opportunity to visit one of the cat cafes, it is best to choose a large one with the best possible facilities. A small and closed space can make a cafeteria a cute place. If you include a lot of kittens in that closed space, it is no longer so funny to have a cake in a place that smells like a pet store.
In Nyafe Melange (1-7-13 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku) live about 25 of them in a quite modern space and in Nekorobi (1-1 Higashiikebukuro, Toshima-ku) the kittens have your own online profiles , as if they were catalog models -Kotaro and Anko are the best-. There you can develop your soul of “bachelor or spinster with cats” just for a few hours, without remorse and with the possibility of returning to a normal life later.
Coffee, with a cat, tastes better
The next step, the usagi cafes , offer the company of bunnies more adorable than Duracel. You have always wanted one as a pet but you have not dared to do it for what they will say. Here you can remove that stuck thorn. And on top of that you don't have to clean up excrement. They are so successful that franchises like Ra.a.g.f.
To get to Tokyo's most famous owl cafe, Fukuro No Mise , you have to walk a bit from the city center to the station Tsukishima . It also costs about fifteen euros, but of course you can take photos with the animals.
In Tokyo there are already franchises of rabbit cafes
Themed cafes and restaurants can become somewhat touristy, although without a doubt a crazy tourist experience. Without leaving the effervescent Shinjuku you can find several shots that require everyone to surrender to the absurd . One of them, Robot Restaurant. Warning: its decoration is not suitable for epileptics. It's out of place even in this noisy neighborhood.
You must reserve a table to enjoy the dinner-show, which varies according to the current schedule. Before the eyes of the diner happens a parade typical of the 4th of July celebrations with a culmination of hallucinogens on top . At one point, the dancers give way to the robots, protagonists of the show and who soon fight against giant stuffed animals or against beautiful flesh and blood Amazons. It's kind of like an anime opera. What about dinner? What they throw at you Nobody cares.
a delirious madness
And now that going to prison is so fashionable in Spain, ** The Lock Up in Shibuya ** will make you feel like one of our politicians, bullfighters and tonadilleras. Dinners in a cell and from the cutlery to the menu it has a bit of a horror movie. Do not be scared if sticks or drinks appear on the menu with names such as "gas chamber" or "lethal injection".
In the zone of Akasaka there is a ninja fortress where sushi is served. Sharp suriken and raw fish on a rather dark lathe. Menus can easily cost between 50 and 150 euros. It also has a themed bar, for the curious who don't want to open their wallet too much.
If we focus on the various celebrities, Ginza hides Lewis Carrol's Alice's Wonderland and Akihabara is famous for its electronic stores and its coffee maids , where beautiful and servile maidens who appeal to the low institutes of their potential clients liven up the visit. There is no touching possible, but they accompany you during your stay. You basically pay to have a Japanese friend for a while . They are very easy to find because in the streets of the algae area of them, as a sampler, they distribute flyers.
But the queens of the mambo in the neighborhood are beginning to be AKB48. The girl band par excellence is, like everything else, a marcianada that in Japan they accept with total normality and that now it has its own cafe and restaurant. To begin with, the name refers to the number of members of the musical formation. There are almost fifty girls dressed as schoolgirls who become musical idols. In addition, there are equally numerous regional subdivisions.
Being an idol should be unique and this massive band seems capable of breaking the basic norms of pop culture, because their albums have been instant number one for a few years now. The cafeteria, very close to the train station, has an American sixties style and is full of images of these new-fangled heroines in any possible format. It also has a theater and souvenir shop , it would be missing more, with merchandising of all of them, if you are able to distinguish them.
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