88/365 2015 - Robot Restaurant, Tokyo

            This has to be the craziest place I've ever been. In a town that's wound up to 11 to start with, this place in the back streets of Kabukicho surrounded by hostess clubs and love hotels is Japan at about 3500%!

After a short time waiting in the bar, sitting in giant golden shells, surrounded by literally millions of colour changing LEDs and listening to live lift music by a (very good) 7-piece band dressed as robots, you are ushered down 5 flights of stairs to the lowest basement, where even more insanity awaits.

These guys are from the first 'act' where you have two giant platforms with seven taiko drummers on each slowly orbiting the stage area, where there is just enough room for them to fit over your head, while a third containing a single female drummer slides gracefully in between them.

Following that up you have things like robot boxing and a battle involving a giant shark eating an evil samuari robot while the woman riding the shark shouts 'eat my fire'. Meanwhile a giant moth with a gorilla swinging beneath attacks a squadron of terminator style robots covered in twinkly lights. Then you've got things like robotic monowheels dodging between robots breakdancing to Daft Punk's 'Better Faster Harder'. Fast paced Manga animation projected on just about every surface simply increases the weirdness....

Makes the karate panda riding a cow seem almost sensible...

Taken in: 日本 / 東京都 / 東京 (show map)

Taken on: March 29, 2015

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Robots, lots and lots of robots!

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Camera: Canon EOS 500D, f/3.5, 1/160 sec, 15mm, ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 500D
Lens:	EF-S15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Aperture:	f/3.5
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	15mm
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Bridge CS5.1
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