Man arrested for assaulting employee, refusing to pay bill at hostess club in Sapporo

Pretty hard to consume 93,000 yen in food and drinks if a place is ligit. Stupid of him to go there.

“ I was drunk and don’t remember”, but remember, if you’re a foreigner, you can’t use this excuse

Pretty hard to consume 93,000 yen in food and drinks if a place is ligit. Stupid of him to go there.

No, not at all! Obviously you are unfamiliar with establishments like this.

Hell there was a time where is cost more than this just to sit down. "Table charges" could run anywhere from ￥100,000 to ￥250,000 or more in high end places.

I have drank in places in Tokyo where it cost ￥500,000 for 5 people as a table charge, and one bottle of Hennessey was ￥300,000 for a "set".

My boss paid over ￥1,000,000 than night for us to drink there!

I didn't want to pay the bill.

Then the last place you should go to is a Red Light District bar. Everyone knows they don't mess around when it comes to the bill. In any country.

I wouldn't want to pay either if that was the amount for a glass of wine, some peanuts, and a two-minute feel-up.

Once on a college ian-ryoko 'comfort trip' I was asleep when there was a banging on the hotel door. It was my roommate, a professor from the same college. I got up to let him in; he was ashen-faced and shivering with fear. "Sssshhhh..... Let me hide under the bed!" he said. "They are after me, down in the lobby!"

It was about 2:00 am, I noticed. Apparently the people he had been drinking with had quietly left, one by one, until he was the only one in the bar, and faced with a similar ridiculously hefty bill.

"What has this guy got me into?" I wondered as I went back to bed. Thankfully there was no more to it.

YubaruToday 05:01 pm JST

Pretty hard to consume 93,000 yen in food and drinks if a place is ligit. Stupid of him to go there.

No, not at all! Obviously you are unfamiliar with establishments like this.

Hell there was a time where is cost more than this just to sit down. "Table charges" could run anywhere from ￥100,000 to ￥250,000 or more in high end places.

I have drank in places in Tokyo where it cost ￥500,000 for 5 people as a table charge, and one bottle of Hennessey was ￥300,000 for a "set".

My boss paid over ￥1,000,000 than night for us to drink there

The good old days! I used to love hanging with a certain boss and the guys from one of his partner companies. They loved foreign hostesses so I could usually speak English there and the boss always picked up the tab and let me drink whatever I wanted because he knew that I disliked cognac. The guy in the story probably thought 93000 yen was a lot but that was pocket money back during the bubble.

Don't charge such ridiculous prices then.

How can the food and beverages worrh of 93000 yen? The girls must be ugly and over aged in there !

How can the food and beverages worrh of 93000 yen?

Economics 101: A goods or service is as expensive as the customer is willing to pay (present example notwithstanding, obviously).

The girls must be ugly and over aged in there !

What a curious thing to say. Are the hostess clubs usually staffed with "ugly and over aged" girls where you live, comrade elephant?

The club should be investigated as well for the high prices and if customers are clearly informed of the price. Many of these bars skirt the laws and frankly I bet she put her hands on him first. Kabukicho the police even know about it and do nothing. Only when the police shut down these kinds of place that over charge will anything change

/dev/randomJuly 6  10:28 pm JST

How can the food and beverages worrh of 93000 yen?

Economics 101: A goods or service is as expensive as the customer is willing to pay (present example notwithstanding, obviously).

Economics also says prices of replaceable goods should be driven down to cost. The fact that the otherwise happens so often in Japan indicates irrational behavior on consumer's parts.

Economics also says prices of replaceable goods should be driven down to cost.

True. Hostesses, however, are arguably not "replaceable goods" and would probably take offense with the label. Questionable as it is, hostess clubs sell unique experiences.

The fact that the otherwise happens so often in Japan indicates irrational behavior on consumer's parts.

True again. Not every consumer decision is rational, not every buying decision boils down to "cospa".

/dev/randomToday  01:53 am JST

Economics also says prices of replaceable goods should be driven down to cost.

True. Hostesses, however, are arguably not "replaceable goods" and would probably take offense with the label. Questionable as it is, hostess clubs sell unique experiences.

They are replaceable in the sense that a single hostess can deliver their "unique" experience to a fair number number of people. And since there is no way to know whether that unique experience is anywhere from horrible to acceptable, the educated consumer should not be falling for this.

I haven't been to a hostess bar in maybe 20 years. And I do not miss them at all. They are depressing places. I feel bad for those who get fleeced in them and the girls who work there for reasons of their own.

Laguna

Pretty hard to consume 93,000 yen in food and drinks if a place is ligit. Stupid of him to go there.

How do you define "legit"? Hostess bars are expensive, and the prices are no secret. His bill is not out of the ordinary.

Serves him right to going to a pervy place for seedy sleazy men. What did he ruddy well expect, lol

A lesson I learned several years ago, If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.

An open tab is the worst possible way to invite a rip-off. You wanna act as a wealthy customer then be ready to pay unless you been to that place several times and you trust leaving your card with them.

Now a days if you use apple wallet or other digital methods, just pay for each drink as soon as it's served and have FUN.

"Dont drink and drive "

"Dont drink and go to hostess bars "

""injured a hostess at the bar in Chuo Ward and ran away without without paying 93,000 yen for food and drinks he had consumed.""

93,000 JPY?? there is more that food that he consumed for sure, LOL

His first mistake was going into that place. His second mistake was not paying for his first mistake and walking away...

His bill is not out of the ordinary.

Probably is to the guy we were responding to. Also more than likely they are ignorant of what "night-life" can cost in Japan!

He complained about a bill of ¥93,000 after eating and drinking a skinful? That's nothing!

Back in the day, ¥93,000 would be lucky to get you ONE drink in many high class establishments in Tokyo. In fact, you would not even get in the door for that amount.

This man is clearly clueless - a cheapskate and a total loser. Hope he goes to jail.

What a loser clown, go to jail...

How many days was he drinking there? I am sure the ladies there drank and ate for 60000.

I remember going to a snack many years ago. I had been drinking with a Canadian friend in a gaijin-friendly place. A Japanese girl came into the bar and recognised him. They had been to school together, an international school. It turned out her mother was running a bar, a snack, at the time. She suggested going there. It was closed, but she had a key and let us in.

When we sat down, she poured a large glass of whisky for herself. It really was a large glass, a tumbler full of whisky. She downed it all in one go. My Canadian friend and I looked at each other astouned at how quickly she drank the whisky. She then explained it was mugicha and came from a whisky bottle that was reserved for hostess drinks. Customers paid for whisky to get the hostesses drunk on mugicha. There was also a bowl of flowers on each table for the hostesses to dump real drinks in when the customer wasn't looking.

These are just some of the tricks used by such bars to inflate bills. I soon learnt that most bars in areas full of bars were full of scam bars and best avoided.

Fortunately the place has changed since Kirin City, Hub and so on have opened along with many other places that just charge for drinks with no questionable add-ons.

I used to work in quite a few Hostess clubs years ago…none of them were this type of rip off establishments, or I would never work there.

Best jobs I ever had in Japan, loved it

WA4TKG

I used to work in quite a few Hostess clubs years ago…none of them were this type of rip off establishments, or I would never work there.

I still would not call this a rip-off. Obviously, there is a whole range of these places, with different price levels, but none of them are cheap. The prices in expensive Ginza hostess clubs have long been a part of local lore. This is one reason "girls bars" have become popular, which are fundamentally the same, except the girls stay at the counter instead of sitting on sofas next to the customer. They always post their prices right outside. But even there, I can see how a generous customer can reach a couple man yen in a few hours.