Monday evening we had tickets for a show at the Robot Restaurant (which isn't really a restaurant) in Shinjuku's Kabukicho district. Shinjuku is another one of Tokyo's special wards, a commercial center. It's also the location of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administration center for the government of Tokyo. It's amazing there. We arrived via the Shinjuku train station, the busiest train station in the world. The first sight we encountered was Godzilla peering over a building.
Godzilla in the background
Godzilla close up.
It wasn't hard to find the location of the show because there were giant robots out front.
Chilling on sexy robot torsos
We had to exchange our online receipts for real tickets, and then we were let into the building but guided four floors up via the stairs. This was a waiting area for ticket-holders and was styled as a bar that only Liberace could appreciate.
Kevin and Andrew taking it in
It's really shiny in here!
The show had several parts of total weirdness. The first part was a sort of kabuki mixed with neon and robots. The second part was some sort of Avatar rip off where the robot machines battled the happy neon inhabitants of an alien planet. They mostly lost the battle to the alien machines but (SPOILER ALERT) the sea creatures won the war in the end.
Scene 1- Neon Kabuki
Scene 2- Avatar reimagined
The sea creatures battling robots- don't mess with sharks.
There was an neon dance-off interlude. And a circus-themed interlude.
Neon dance guys
Neon dance guys + the matrix
Finally, we were all given glow sticks and warned that the last scene was before us. It was the weirdest most robotic scene yet.
Me, Kevin, and a Japanese fairy and Circus ringmaster riding a robot
Andrew and Japanese showgirls. Note also the elderly people with glow sticks.
Here is a horse man on a robot zebra, and an inflatable zebra on a horse man.
We think this is some sort of analogy for America.
The stuff of nightmares.
Cat robot because kawaii and kawai are not always so different after all.
