Cabaret

About fourteen years ago, we had only two or three foreigners' bars in downtown, now they are more than five -doesn't make big difference though, and I always visited one of them called 'The Big Apple'. The premises are very small with only ten seats available, but with also a small hall they had always twenty strong people inside the bar. Sometimes that exceeded thirty and we sometimes had troubles as fist-fighting, sexual harassment, molestation, pick-pocketting, but also we had nice conversations and instant love affairs. We all complained about the smallness of the bar and scarcity of its kind in town, but it was still in early 1990s. Foreigners are not so common as they are now.

There I kept on visiting for 210 consecutive days, I mean for seven months. Every night I made it a rule to come to the bar at as early as 7, then stayed up until 5. I usually stayed there for 7 or 8 hours talking to guys and gals from inside and outside Japan. Actually all my -4 loves, including ex-, post-ex-wifes, a current love, a former love are from foreigners' bars. I mean they are great places to brush up your thoughts, but now the days are gone. I prefer sitting in front of the screen rather than dancing in the hall, but if you are young enough, I strongly recommend dropping in at the bar where you can know the world directly from your eyes, noses, ears, hands, and body.

I used to work both in a bar or cabaret and a restaurant. To visit a bar is very ammusing but to work there is very different from visting as a guest. I had to always put myself in a third person position. I was far from enjoying the ambience there. That is mere my experience or observation there, why not try working?