Osaka panchira bar offering barfly fishing for skirt reeling in the punters

[Anchorman]

An oddball Osaka bar is proving a huge success -- but it's no flash in the pan, instead succeeding with a business model centering on a flash of the frillies, according to Shukan Post (6/8).

Visitors to the Panchira Kissa P*Doll in Osaka's Minami district are served by scantily clad young women who will deliberately strike poses and go to places within the establishment that offers glimpses of their underwear.

A young woman wearing a sexy French maid's outfit greets people entering the bar with the word "chirassaimase," a play on the traditional Japanese welcome of "irasshaimase" and "panchira", which describes a fleeting glance of knickers.

P*Doll's star attraction is its mirror-topped bar, which allows patrons sitting there to cop an eyeful up the waitresses' skirts as they walk along the counter. The waitresses will also put on mini-shows, such as wiggling their bottoms or flashing their G-strings.

"There are about 15 girls working here. All the lingerie we wear is our own," Anri, one of the waitresses at P*Doll, tells Shukan Post. "On weekends, people line up to get in here. Some people even get the bullet train down from Tokyo just to visit."

Shukan Post notes that P*Doll also provides its drinkers who tip generously with a variety of optional services, including the chance to watch a waitress change clothes behind an almost transparent black silk screen, or the chance to have one of the table staff squat down on their haunches with legs apart for a two-minute chat.

But the additional option reeling in the punters is the fishing line, where punters pay to use a fishing rod with a large hook on the end of its line to try and raise a waitress's skirt for a few seconds. (By Ryann Connell)