This
place used to be called the "Liquid Room."
For ten years, in the middle of Japan's most famous bright-light
district, this place was a home to many Japanese rock bands,
punk bands, funk bands, R&B bands, and DJ's.
This famous live house / event hall at Kabuki-cho, Shinjuku,
closed its doors after a New Year's Eve party in 2003 and
moved to Ebisu, where the shops and boutiques are. Instead
of being surrounded by hostess clubs, whorehouses and yakuzas,
the Liquid Room has decided to change its establishment to
a "trendier" neighborhood.
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Shinjuku FACE is located inside the seventh floor of
this building right in front of the famous Shinjuku
Koma Theatre. The other floors are occupied by video
arcades, a bowling alley, cafe, spa, karaoke box, etc.
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After little over a year of constructions and renovations,
in the summer of 2005, this place once
again opened it door as "Shinjuku FACE," the event
hall mainly for MMA and pro-wrestling shows.
On its opening day, on July 29th, Kyodo Tokyo hosted a special
women's fight show called W-FACE. In front of prominent politicians,
and about 500 fans, Megumi Fujii and Yuki
Kondo Kubota performed a jiu-jitsu exhibition match,
MIKU fought in an MMA rules bout, and also,
there were boxing, kickboxing, grappling rules bouts and a
pro-wrestling match.
With a capacity of a little over 500, the hall is perfect
for so-called "Independent" promotions in the world
of pro-wrestling and MMA.
On top of that, after all this Kabuki-cho, Shinjuku is one
of the busiest nightlife spots in the world so transportation
access is all there and so are restaurants, clubs, theatres,
shops, department stores, gay bars, lesbian bars, straight
bars and everything.
The fans can eat dinner, enjoy a fight show and go out to
drink all in one area.
And that is the reason why this place, with an average of
7 to 8 fight shows (including pro-wrestling) and 2 to 3 live
music parties per month, has quickly become the second busiest
hall in the Japanese fight world next to Korakuen Hall located
in front of Tokyo Dome.
Shinjuku FACE seating chart
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