Japan loves its themed cafés and restaurants, the latest being the Harry Potter Café opening in Akasaka this week. The OTT prison-inspired restaurant The Lock Up in Shinjuku, however, is unfortunately closing at the end of July. If you’ve not had a chance to visit, there’s still a month for you try out its cocktails served in unusual apparatus such as test tubes, beakers and blood bags while getting ‘locked up’ in a prison cell.
![The Lock Up Tokyo](https://media.timeout.com/images/105900726/image.jpg)
The Lock Up first opened in Kyoto in 1999, attracting a lot of buzz and excitement with its unique concept. Staff dressed in police uniform will handcuff you at the entrance before guiding you to a dining table in a prison cell-like room behind iron bars. While the menu offers standard fare such as pasta, salad, fried chicken and pizza, all its dishes either feature prison-themed presentation or are decorated to look like monsters.
![The Lock Up Tokyo](https://media.timeout.com/images/105900727/image.jpg)
The Shinjuku location is the only Lock Up left in Japan and sadly that too will close on July 31. For its farewell, the restaurant is offering a special ‘Sayonara Lock Up’ 13-course meal for only ¥3,000 until July 24. It includes an array of appetisers and dishes including a one-eyed caprese salad, skeleton pizza, devil’s left hand grilled chicken and mummy sausages. Best of all, an all-you-can-drink beaker cocktail only costs an additional ¥690. Plus, the ¥550 table fee per person will be waived between June 27 and July 10.
![The Lock Up Tokyo](https://media.timeout.com/images/105901121/image.jpg)
Visit The Lock Up website for more information.
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