• Empty no longer: The dancefloor at a new club, Alzar, awaits customers before opening. While nightclubs in Osaka have had their share of legal issues over the past few years, changes in legislation have led some in the music scene there to be more optimistic as to where nightlife is heading.
    Empty no longer: The dancefloor at a new club, Alzar, awaits customers before opening. While nightclubs in Osaka have had their share of legal issues over the past few years, changes in legislation have led some in the music scene there to be more optimistic as to where nightlife is heading.
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OSAKA – Around two dozen people shuffle about the dark interior of Alzar, a recently opened nightclub on the eighth floor of a building in Osaka’s Chuo Ward that also features a capsule hotel and sauna. Most hover near the concrete wall, watching a European DJ play house music. A group orders Champagne, taking swigs straight from the bottle before one of them stumbles out onto the dancefloor to a chorus of laughs.

It’s a small crowd for a Friday night. Alzar only opened last month, but Katsuhiro Nakano, CEO of Alzar’s parent company, New Japan, sees this place as a new opportunity for the city’s many electronic music artists and fans.

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