Rejoice! If you are a little overweight, you can still enjoy the unique charms of the naked restaurant.
Japan’s first nudist eatery, The Amrita, opens on July 29th. Frankly it’s so hot and sweaty right now that my home it a permanent nudist camp.
Originally it had made a big thing out of how you couldn’t be more then 15kg (33 lbs) over the average weight for your height — and that they would be weighing patrons at the entrance to check! After all, the logic went, who wants to be put off their dinner by excess flab?
Guests are served by near-naked hot guys, meaning this is a host club or strip club in a very scantily clad disguise (with apologies for the pun).
Aimed squarely at women, it seems, the costs of the courses are also similarly eye-watering like a host club.
There was a bit of a backlash against the snobbery about the restrictions against “fat” and “old” people (reservations were only taken from those up to 60).
The owners have listened and decided to lift the restrictions for two special events in August. On August 26th and August 27th, no matter how fat or old you are (as long as you are over 20), you can enjoy the benefit of a naked restaurant. Of course, you still have to wear the paper underwear like everyone else, though on these dates even the shy will be happy. The organizers have said that customers can wear their ordinary clothes, too, so you don’t even have to be naked now.
By the way, all cameras and phones are placed in a box on the table and locked away.
Even better, there seems to be so much buzz about the naked restaurant that Amrita has announced new branches in Kyoto and Nagoya! Roshutsu fetish is spreading!
Though the restaurant has got a lot of press attention and some surprise about the restrictions on age and weight, no one seems bothered by the ban on tattoos. It is normal for Japanese bathhouses, springs and pools are very strict about banning visitors with tattoos or making them cover them up, ostensibly because of their association with the yakuza. Amrita also bans customers with tattoos. Perhaps if we make enough of a fuss about this then they will listen?
