The place lives up to its theme in employing camouflage, deception, and visual illusion to make you see what is not there, which is a restaurant worth what they charge and hype it up to be. I have been there once before, but a second go confirmed my first impression, an overpriced kitschy tourist trap. The food...
(the sashimi on the right is tomato, not tuna!)
(sake and ninja...meat???)
(the sake in the bamboo cups was quite nice)(this is a salad, not a dessert...more Ninja deception!)
...was decent enough. But the cheese....
(a chest of simulated gold, complete with a plastic lizard guarding it on the rock in the background)...was a bit over done. Actually, the decor wouldn't have been so bad if they had *done something with it* to make it more interactive/interesting/educational. Basically the place was a regular restaurant wth people dressed as Ninja, but not really doing much of anything Ninja-esque. At least The Lock-Up gives you a crazy guy running around the place once an hour scaring the piss out of the girls that are their with their dates! One dish the was really worth the money was this thing:
... a chocolate and macha thing made to look like Bonsai tree. It looked almost too cool to eat, but eat it we did! Delicious!
Overall, it is a place to take folks that haven't been yet, but there are better theme restaurants in Tokyo. this could be one of them if they just put more thought into how to make a visit there more interactive, educational, and thus interesting.
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