Across Japan there are countless unconventionally-themed novelty bars, which make drinking all the more enjoyable. For instance, I’ve been to a Luther Vandross-themed nighclub, a Frankenstein bar, and a truly macabre restaurant modelled on a prison hospital where, upon arrival, you are handcuffed by girls in nurse-outfits and led to a cell in which you can drink cocktails from test tubes and eat food served in bedpans. A classy joint.
I’ve also been to a bar named “Real” in Fujisawa city, where my table was balanced on top of a large water-tank containing two small, live sharks. I looked down through the perspex at the scary beasts swimming around beneath me while I sipped whiskey. It was like something you’d find in the lair of an evil criminal-mastermind from a James Bond film. It was hard not to imagine the floor sliding away, dropping me to my bloody doom. Later, when I was wasted, I got kicked out of the bar for jumping up and down on the perspex to see if it would break. (I’m a complete dickbrain.)
Info:
Bar Real, Fujisawa 23 Bldg 201, 1-4-3, Kugenumaishigami, Fujisawa 251-0025
Tel: 0466-26-4336
ROFL … that’s the nicest reason for being kicked out of a bar I ever heard. So far what’s the best drink you had?
Hmm, good question! I’m rather partial to Calpis sour, an alcoholic version of the soft drink Calpis (sounds like “cow piss”.) I’m a big fan of Ginga Kogen beer which is hard to get hold of. A couple of times I’ve mixed vodka with the energy drink “Lipovitan D” which makes for a really crazy night.
Is ti somekind of RedBull, that LipovitanD thingy ?
I don’t know what Calpis is… what’s taste like?
Calpis tastes like yoghurt, and LipovitanD is like a cheap version of Red Bull. Also you can’t go wrong with good old Asahi or Kirin beer, or chu-hai which is like a cheap alcoholic soda pop which you can buy in convenience stores.
If you Gina Kogen beer let me know where you are. I live close to the brewery and work for the company that owns it.
I love Ginga Kogen, it’s my favourite Japanese beer! Very hoppy taste. I live in Yokohama.
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