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After making international headlines for its strict entry policy, The Amrita has made a number of surprising changes to their nude dining experience.
The announcement of Japan’s new naked restaurant last month made news around the world for its entry policy, which clearly states that overweight customers and those over the age of 60 will be turned away at the door with no refunds. According to the restaurant, they received numerous requests to relax these restrictions and, in response, they have lifted the rules on age, weight and dress requirements for their two-day “Men of Amrita” opening dinner event, which will be held on Aug 26 and 27.
The restaurant has since released a press release saying it will be opening its doors to “anyone aged from 20 to 120” for the event, even welcoming overweight diners, no matter how large they may be. The press release also indicates they’ve lifted the nudity requirement, preparing a special area for diners who prefer to wear clothing while at the restaurant. Those who wish to dine naked will be able to do so in a separate section, while wearing restaurant-supplied paper underwear. Their website now notes the updated conditions here, though the original restrictions still appear on other pages as requirements for the rest of the restaurant’s approximate two-month operation period.
In addition to the updated entry rules, male customers will no longer be able to make single bookings. Links to a couple of brand new restaurant locations in Nagoya and Kyoto have also been posted on the website, and while details for these branches are yet to surface, the exact location of the Tokyo restaurant will be revealed on the official homepage one week prior to the August opening event. With so much interest in the new nude dining experience, this is definitely one of the most anticipated hot new openings in the country this year.
Source: Value Press
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Yubaru
Just goes to show that shock value is not enough to get people to put their money down on a reservation. Probably faced with losing money and not based only upon requests to change the policies.
It's all about the "bottom" $$$$ or yen here.
Says who? If it was so "anticipated" why did they have to change the policies?
Aly Rustom
Meaning, international pressure caused them to backtrack.
That's how you affect change in Japan: by naming and shaming. Its the most effective way.
RealityofFake
I'm glad they changed the restrictions. But what's up with them also saying it's okay if you don't want to be naked? How is this a naked restaurant if being naked is now optional?
Yubaru
Just when has international pressure ever affecting anything here?
commanteer
You are reading too much into it. A homoerotic naked restaurant in Tokyo that caters to Japanese... come on, you really think they were "shamed" by international pressure? If anything, they probably loved the publicity.
Spanki
No thanks and still no thanks.
MsDelicious
I do everything nude in my home when it is hot like this, but no way am I showing my sexy body in some restaurant, that has yet to post a nice menu.
afanofjapan
"restaurant supplied paper underwear" sounds extremely uncomfortable
I suspect 95% of people going there are doing it for the chance of seeing someone else naked, yet everyone will be covered up with bits of paper. Nervous girls dragged along by their wondering eyed bfs/husbands, and perhaps a few older exhibitionists hoping someone still wants to look at their saggy bits.
As others have said, if i want to eat naked, i will do it at home.
ChaosWyvern
Paying for the chance to eat with old, fat, naked men? Woohoo! ....unfortunately that's not my fetish, so this lady will be staying home.
I'll probably still be eating naked, but at least the experience won't cost anything.
FizzBit
Paying for the chance to eat with old, fat, naked women? Heck YEAH!
nath
What makes you guys think it will only be fat old people?
I guarantee there will be younger good looking people as well.
Yubaru
Who will probably be paid a lot of cash to allow people to stare-frick them to death.
nath
No, there will be younger good looking people who go there on their own behest as well.
gogogo
How is it naked if you are wearing paper underwear?
commanteer
Good question. The website does say 紙製の使い捨て下着, which I would translate as disposable underwear. But I am wondering if that could also refer to a simple paper sheet for naked people to sit on, as I have seen done in other clubs that haven't garnered all the publicity this place has.
Either way, beyond me why anybody would want to go. It's kinky without being sexy, not to mention a good way to spoil a decent meal. A total non sequitur.
nath
There are a lot of voyeurs and exhibitionists in the world.
Serrano
"Those who wish to dine naked will be able to do so in a separate section, while wearing restaurant-supplied paper underwear"
If you wear underwear, paper or otherwise, you aren't naked, right?
katsu78
I agree, though I think there was a chance of a bit of name and shame - not from the International community, but from the gay community. Because that seems to be the implied target audience, and at least some parts of the gay community have kinda a thing about accepting people who are different. That probably had more influence on the discussion than a bunch of foreigners a thousand miles away simultaneously pounding on their keyboards about how outrageous it is that they'd be excluded but also how absolutely horrible it would be to have to see a penis at dinner.
I don't know, but I'd wager good money that there are legal issues with compelling people in a place of business to be naked if they don't wish to be.
sensei258
As I recall, it costs hundreds of dollars to see the "show", not sure about the cost of just dining. It's all about the bottom line, they relax restrictions to get more customers.
Because they don't want your buttfunk on their furniture
lostrune2
So just make it all ages now!
commanteer
That I get. But I don't get the part where voyeurism/exhibitionism is enhanced by a meal. I mean, "here get a gander of my tasty bits... while I chomp down on my pork loin."
Not to mention, it's hardly exhibitionism when everybody is naked. A guy with a nicely tailored suit will get more attention in that environment.
nath
I don't think it is. It's just a different experience, that's all. People like to try different things, particularly if they are people who have money to spend.
commanteer
I ate at a couple naked restaurants (on beaches) in Europe. They were quite reasonably priced, and there was no big fuss about it. It was certainly different, but I can't see going out of my way for the experience. This one in Tokyo just seems a bit too contrived. But if they make a profit, more power to them.