If theres something Japan stands out for is for its creativity and craziness. One great example and one almost nobody knows about is the Tokyos Robot Restaurant. In this restaurant there aren’t robot waiters, but there are robot-driving dancers, bikini-clad taiko drummers and ninja-masked stagehands and when you look up from your bento it won’t be the surroundings of any other novelty ‘restaurant’ you’ll find in town, but a non-stop spectacle of a show that has to be seen to be believed. A 10 billion yen creation in the Kabukicho section of Tokyo’s Shinjuku neighborhood. Kabukicho is the city’s red light district, where the narrow, car-less streets are flanked by a seemingly endless number of towering, multi-colored, brightly backlit signs. It’s famous for its nightclubs, host and hostess clubs, short-stay hotels, and late-night eateries. Around 12,000 bulbs line the walls of the waiting room, giving a glaring taste of what is to come and leading you through and down to the show area. There you’ll sit and just take it all in. The show is split into four sections, each having developed in scale and tightness. It should be easy to write about the show at the Robot Restaurant. There are robots, there are girls, there are taiko drums, there is a giant mechanical armadillo that does battle with a Kung-fu panda lookalike and there are some perhaps Daft Punk-inspired figures who skate around the place on Segways dodging lasers and pumping up the crowd with their glowsticks. It’s hard to think of something ‘serious’ and intelligent to say about the place. Life during and after a visit to the Robot Restaurant does feel a little less serious for a while – and that’s something we’re sure everyone can get down with. To find the Robot Restaurant and make a booking, go to its website: shinjuku-robot. Advance reservations are highly recommended. Whats your opinion on this place? Would you go? I know I would!
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 18:41:12 +0000
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