Bar Kitsune is a phenomenon. It is the brainchild of Production Company, an Osaka-based outfit that decided to sneak up the Tokaido and infiltrate Tokyo's nightlife. The company's success with home-turf projects like Under Lounge, one of Osaka's most happening clubs, gave it the confidence to tackle the Big Mikan.
The result is a well-planned yet very cool underground catacomb of a club. It is big and it is dark. A huge circular bar sits at the hub of a round dance floor flanked by booths. Spinning off in tangents from this central core are other smaller rooms, including a DJ lounge, a restaurant and various VIP and private alcoves. All moods and mind-sets are catered to.
The interior is the work of another Osaka-based company called Cafe Co. It enlisted the services of both New York-based photographer Nigel Scott, whose work runs in an eye-level strip of back-lit transparencies set into the wall around the dance floor, and artist Eddy Desplanque, whose graphics jazz up the walls in the restaurant.