How Much Does a Roppongi Lounge Cost? Transparent Guide

If you’ve read a single Tokyo nightlife forum, you already know the warning: “don’t walk into a Roppongi club, you’ll leave with a four-figure bill.” The truth is more boring — at LUNE, every line on your final bill is published before you walk in.

The short answer: ¥18,000 for 60 minutes, plus only what you choose to add

At LUNE, one guest pays ¥18,000 for the first 60 minutes. That base price is the venue’s all-inclusive package: a private suite, house drinks on free flow throughout your booking, the in-suite karaoke setup, the rotation of 12–15 amateur (素人) hosts who cycle through your table every 15–20 minutes, your welcome signature cocktail, plus tax and service. There is no separate table charge, and no service fee added at checkout. Extensions run at the same flat per-hour rate.

The smaller point, but the more important one for transparency: there are a few clearly priced optional extras you can choose to add. If you’d like to invite a host to drink with you (a “cast drink”), that’s a per-drink charge. If you’d prefer a specific premium bottle off our bottle menu, that’s priced per bottle. If you want one particular host to stay with your table the whole hour rather than rotate (nomination / 指名), that carries an additional charge too. All three are entirely your choice. None will appear on your bill unless you ask for them in the room, and the price is on the menu before you order.

That’s the entire pricing model. ¥18,000 for the base, plus a short list of opt-in extras with published prices. No surprise lines, no “set” of items you didn’t agree to, no service charge bolted on at the end.

Why Tokyo nightlife prices feel scary — and where the real surprises hide

The infamous Roppongi “scams” — the ones every travel blog warns about — almost always follow the same structure: a tout on the street, a vague invitation, an unmarked elevator, then a check that’s three times what you expected. The surprises are real, and they share a common pattern. None of the prices were posted in advance. The “drinks included” line was actually two drinks, not unlimited. The host(esses) who sat down each added a charge per hour. The bill suddenly grew a “service” line, a “table” line, a “VIP room” line, and a “nomination” line.

A traditional kyabakura works honestly within that structure — the prices exist, they’re just stacked in pieces and tend to assume Japanese-language fluency to read. Set charge, table charge, nomination fee, drink for the hostess, bottle minimum, VIP upgrade. Add it up and a single visit can easily land between ¥30,000 and ¥80,000 per guest, depending on the venue and what you ordered. That’s not a scam — it’s the model. But for a foreign visitor who didn’t grow up navigating Japanese nightlife pricing conventions, it reads as a trap even when it isn’t one.

LUNE solved this by publishing the whole shape of the bill in advance. Every line a guest might encounter — the base hourly rate, and each opt-in extra — is listed on the in-suite menu and on our site before you commit. Transparency isn’t that there are no extras possible; it’s that no extra appears on the bill without your permission, at a price you saw first.

What’s actually in the ¥18,000 — and what’s a clearly priced optional extra

The base ¥18,000 per guest, per first hour, covers four concrete things. The private suite — one of three suites across the 6th and 7th floors of Power House, 7-12-3 Roppongi. LUNE caps the night at three parties total, so the building never feels crowded. Each suite holds 1–6 guests. House drinks on free flow — beer, highballs, shōchū, soft drinks, mocktails, tea, water. Order as many as you like through your booking; nobody keeps a tally. In-suite karaoke — a wireless microphone, English, Japanese, Mandarin and Korean songbook, and a screen you can flip between karaoke and ambient visuals. The host rotation — 12 to 15 素人 (amateur) hosts cycle through your suite every 15–20 minutes over the course of the evening. A welcome signature cocktail lands on the table when you arrive. Tax and service are already in the price.

The optional extras are short, and they’re published. Cast drinks — if you’d like to invite a host to drink with you, each cast drink is a separately priced add-on. Bottle service — premium whisky, champagne and other bottles can be ordered off our bottle menu at listed per-bottle prices, and the bottle stays on your table for the visit. Nomination (指名) — if you’d like one specific host to stay with your table the entire hour rather than rotate, that’s available for an additional charge. Ask in the room, and the price is on the menu in front of you before you commit.

If you stick to the base experience, the bill is ¥18,000 × guests × hours, end of receipt. If you choose to add a bottle or invite a host to drink with you, those lines appear on the bill at the prices you saw before you ordered them. Nothing about your bill should ever surprise you. If something does, our manager line — +81-3-6434-7041 — is open during business hours, and the answer to “what is this charge?” is always going to be “you weren’t supposed to see that, let me fix it.”

How LUNE compares to kyabakura, host clubs, and members-only suites

There are four shapes of Tokyo nightlife that look identical from the street and price very differently inside. A kyabakura runs the layered model described above — call it ¥30,000–¥80,000 per guest for a comparable evening once charges stack. A host club flips the gender and runs aggressive bottle-keep economics; foreign men aren’t the audience and most of these places aren’t equipped to host them anyway. A “members-only” private lounge in Roppongi — the THE SUITE / R3 tier — typically sits in the ¥25,000–¥40,000+ range per hour per guest with bottle minimums layered on top, and pricing is rarely published. A casual private lounge like LUNE publishes both the base and the opt-in extras up front: the base sits in the low five figures per hour all-inclusive, and the short list of extras (cast drinks, bottles, nomination) is on the in-suite menu before you order anything from it.

We’re not the cheapest option in Roppongi. There are kyabakura settings where you can absolutely leave with a smaller bill — if you stay under an hour, order one drink, and skip the hostess fee. We’re not pretending to compete with that ceiling. What we sell is predictability: you know the base number before you walk in, you know any opt-in extras you might add are listed at a price you see first, and you can plan an evening with three or four guests without doing arithmetic on a napkin. For a foreign visitor in Roppongi for one night of their Tokyo trip, predictability is the entire game.

Common questions

Is ¥18,000 per person or per group?

Per guest, per first hour. A group of three sharing a suite for one hour is ¥54,000 total. Extensions run at the same per-hour rate. The base covers the suite, house drinks on free flow, karaoke, the host rotation, welcome cocktail, and tax. Optional extras (cast drinks, bottle service, nomination) are clearly priced separately if you choose to add them.

Are drinks really free flow inside the package?

House drinks are genuinely free flow inside your booked time — beer, highballs, shōchū, soft drinks, mocktails, tea, water. Order what you like; the bartender doesn’t keep a tally. The two clearly-priced exceptions are cast drinks (if you invite a host to drink with you, per-drink charge) and bottle service (premium bottles off a separate menu, per-bottle price).

Do I need to tip or pay the hosts separately?

No. Tipping is not customary in Japan and nothing about LUNE’s pricing model expects it. The hosts are paid through the house. You should not feel obligated to slip cash to anyone, and no one will ask you to. The only host-related extras are cast drinks (you choose to invite them to drink) and nomination (you ask one specific host to stay with your table the whole hour) — both clearly priced in the room.

Can I pay by card, and do you accept foreign cards?

Yes. We accept major international cards including Visa, Mastercard, Amex, and JCB. Cash is also fine. The total on the slip matches what we quoted in the room; there is no separate “service charge” line added at checkout.

What if I show up and the price is different from what’s published?

It won’t be — but if it is, that’s our error and we’ll honor the published number. Call +81-3-6434-7041 before booking if you want any line of your evening confirmed in writing. We’d rather over-explain on the phone than have you walk in nervous. To reserve, use the form at lune-roppongi.jp/en/reserve.