ARCADIA TOKYO
A concept bar in Kabukicho owned by Doyama Tessin that holds drop-in beginner rope classes three times a month, focused on the basic gote (box) tie, plus separate intermediate sessions. It also hosts Doyama’s monthly Shinshinkai rope gathering on the first Sunday.
ARCADIA TOKYO is a bar in Kabukichō, Shinjuku, owned by the rope performer Doyama Tessin, that calls itself a concept bar. In a 2018 article for Kodansha’s Gendai Business, the nonfiction writer Kanno Kumiko described it as an offshoot of an SM bar of the same name in Osaka run by Aotsuki Nagare, and dated the Tokyo bar’s opening to about nine years earlier. She presented it as a social bar where SM enthusiasts of any gender meet, unlike mistress bars with costumed staff or one-to-one SM clubs. The article gives the bar’s one house rule as not putting down anyone else’s preferences, and Doyama told her he sees the bar’s main role as a place where people can talk about sexuality without shame. The bar belongs to the ARCADIA group, together with ARCADIA in Osaka and Titty Twister upstairs in the same building.
Classes
Since 2024 the beginner rope classes have met on the first Friday, second Thursday and third Sunday of each month, for two hours before regular opening. No booking is needed, and observers are not admitted. Lessons start with a wrist tie and center on the basic ushiro-te tie. Doyama teaches with several other instructors, women among them, and the class page says groups are kept small enough for a teacher to watch every student. Tying as play is not allowed during class, and students and models are asked to arrive without having drunk alcohol. An intermediate class also appears on the calendar; there students may end up practicing on each other, and the bar may first check their ushiro-te. Women who model for a class are admitted free for the rest of the day. As listed in November 2026, the beginner class cost ¥7,000 for men and ¥3,000 for women, and the intermediate class ¥10,000 and ¥5,000.
Gatherings and events
On the first Sunday of each month Doyama hosts 縛心会, a rope gathering that runs from afternoon into the evening. His portfolio records TOKYO ULTIMANIA, an anniversary event for the bar that he and Aotsuki first organized in 2010 and then held every year. The bar is closed on Tuesdays, does not admit anyone under 18 or in high school, and has been non-smoking since April 2020.