[JAPAN] Dining with ‘Psychos’

If you’re young and hip, you can’t Not know of Shibuya! Been looking forward to checking out this popular landmark, the big neon lights, giant lcd screens, big crossing etc.etc. However, the day has been slightly delayed for me since my sister came up with travel sickness ;( so I was stuck in the ryokan with her until midday. Thought I’d miss out on the whole day, but luckily not. All I missed is another trip to Ichiran ramen, which is like ‘everything to me’, literally. (You don’t know how badly I crave ramen right now).

Either way, got to Shibuya in time to meet with the girls and had a late lunch – Katsu don with egg ( i think), i love set menus in Japan haha, quite good value.

After shopping around for several hours, we set off to find Alcatraz bar, where we had made reservations for dinner at. It’s a themed cafe, with a Psychiatric hospital theme to be specific. Themed cafes in Japan are biigg, and this is the original themed cafe. Had heard some good reviews so we gave it a shot.

It was hard to find, we thought it’d be down some small alleyway, (guessing from other people’s photos/videos), instead it was actually on lvl 2 of a buiilding.

The decor was interesting, freakish and all. I was creeped out just waiting in the waiting room actually, cos this creepy japanese voice started singing Happy Birthday songs ;(

All cocktails for Y500! Yes can you tell they have quite interesting drinks? We ordered them all :P Even if some of them look a little extreme… like the one below…

Yes that is what you think it is, (don’t worry nothing dirty happens beyond this point). We thought it was just a dildo (hopefully clean!!) for decor with the drink. Instead it turned out to have multiple uses, it was a vibrator, dildo, and surprisingly works well as a drink blender…. haha.

Overall review of the place: The place is certainly interesting, but wasn’t as fun as I’d expect it to be. MAYBE it was because we were quite early… got there around 6pm and the entertainment hasn’t started. But foodwise, it was just average.. we ordered a dish called something Hormones, and it turned out to be pieces of fat stir fried with cabbage. That’s enough of a freak out for girls.

But anyway, you’d only go there for the atmosphere/environment really cos other than that, nothing special. We were able to do a la carte instead of doing their Y3600 all you can eat/drink buffet special. So we ended up just paying around Y1700 each.

This was our final look at the big Shibuya crossing! with the big screens in the bg, and the crowd! (It was a saturday night btw, so it was rather hectic)

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