Kaikatsu CLUB Niigatateraoten 快活CLUB 新潟寺尾店

Great Place for Work & Relaxation

Internet cafes are a great place to break from routine and get work done that you just can’t seem to finish at your home office. Kaihatsu Club is precisely this location. It has booths of all types, massage chairs, what are called ‘open flat’ rooms with a small Japanese-style zaisu chairs, a recliner, and just open spaces with a table for customers to borrow from the cafe’s ample manga or magazine selections. There is also a digital look up (all Japanese, so be prepared to look for your favorites in the aisles if you can’t navigate an all Japanese menu) to find what manga you’re looking for. Customers can stay for any length of time, even over night packs, but I’ve found the three hour pack for ¥1,000 (depends on the time of day, day of the week) to give me enough time to write lessons, grade essays, or do other work. Most booths have computers with office or connections to video and news services, recently released movies, with family oriented and more adult focused content. Kaihatsu offers a morning service, bread and butter with two toasters which starts at 7 am and continues to 10:30 am. As with many other Internet cafes, they have a free refill drink bar and soft serve non-stop. There’s a smoking lounge in case a customer simply can’t wait, and an extensive menu of other snacks available to order. There’s also karaoke rooms and darts or billiards available for reservation. It’s easy to spend as much or as little of a day as you want here. The app helps you navigate which spaces are available, so you can figure out before you go. The staff always come off as part-timers, and they do their work, but it always seems like there’s one less person on staff that is necessary because the clerks are always washing dishes, tidying up booths for turnover, retrieving used dishes from the different stations around the cafe, or checking in/out customers at the front counter. They aren’t overly friendly, but they absolutely do their work.