Stay away

When work counterparts take you to a strip club, you have to go and you have to drink. This place is an expensive strip tease with no touching allowed that has the local old guys as regulars.

7k yen entrances fee with beer from vending machines as you walk in. They are pricier than your local konbini visit but you have to have one (after our yakiniku dinner and drinks).

If old has a smell, this place is how it smelled. Musty, smoky air. The stage is 2 connected circles with seating around it then there are a couple of rows farther back where some of the older guys sat. The show started and it’s 6-8 women mostly slim parading around in costumes with a lot of noise then the tempo slowed and it was more of a striptease where most of the clothes came off. Lot of gyrating and simulated masturbating. No touching is allowed so you just sit there getting a boner and staring. Coworker looking towards me was awkward even though I know he’s checking to see if I’m enjoying the show. It ends and the girls chit chat and there’s pay to take pictures with them. Nothing special. If it wasn’t a paid work function, I wouldn’t go here. Trying to get some massage info from the locals though.