The Lockup
Kabuki-cho 1-16-3, Shinjuku Square Bldg 6-7F
Phone: ☎ +81 3-5272-7055
About
The Lockup, Kabuki-cho 1-16-3, Shinjuku Square Bldg 6-7F, ☎ +81 3-5272-7055. 5PM-5AM. 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.
