Cafe la siesta – 8-bit Edition Game Bar

There are small themed bars in all the Japanese cities. They can by 7 floors up by elevator with a little billboard on the street or down a corridor off a back alley with nothing to advertise the bar on the street. Café la siesta is just such a bar in Kyoto dedicated to the generation of 8-bit games like the NES.

Around the bar they had working game systems and cartridges like the Game & Watch Donkey Kong above.

There was also game culture stuff like thse CDs of music remixed from game sounds. I’m kicking myself for not getting some of these.

Here is the cash register decorated with stickers and stuff.

 

And this is my drink. It is named the Invader and was actually rather tasty.