Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
Winning the award for most literal name, Shimo-Kitazawa Cage is a fenced-off cube under the Keiō Inokashira Line tracks. Get beers and snacks (from ¥400)…
Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
Winning the award for most literal name, Shimo-Kitazawa Cage is a fenced-off cube under the Keiō Inokashira Line tracks. Get beers and snacks (from ¥400)…
Asakusa & Sumida River
Dandelion makes it's own single-origin bean-to-bar small-batch chocolate right here in Kuramae, a neighbourhood long known for light manufacturing (and…
Roppongi, Akasaka & Around
This Scottish craft brewery's Tokyo outpost is nestled off the main drag. Apart from its own brews, there's a great selection of other beers, including…
Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
Ghetto – the name comes from the characters for 'moon' (ge) and 'light' (to) – is one of the small bars inside Shimo-Kitazawa's iconic (and rickety)…
Asakusa & Sumida River
In the former Yanagibashi entertainment district, this cafe, bar and gallery was once the home of geisha and popular singer Ichimaru. Rotating exhibits by…
Harajuku & Aoyama
Baird’s Brewery is one of Japan’s most successful and consistently good craft breweries. This is one of three Tokyo outposts, and you can sample more than…
Harajuku & Aoyama
Following a long-standing Tokyo summer tradition, this corner of Meiji-jingū Gaien becomes a loud and lively beer garden with seating for 1000 around a…
Kōrakuen & Akihabara
Sake brewery Kiuchi has been brewing its excellent range of Hitachino Nest craft beers since 1996. At this dedicated outlet you can have a very merry time…
Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
Rhythm Cafe is a fun little DJ bar secreted among the windy streets of Shibuya sub-district Udagawa-chō (known for its record shops). It's run by a record…
Ginza & Tsukiji
Cafe Paulista is Tokyo's longest running cafe, in business since 1911 (though the building has been redone), and has seen decades' worth of celebrity…
Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
Your Shibuya pit stop for green-tea lattes, fresh-brewed ice teas, earthy hōjicha (roasted green tea) and more, all made from organic leaves harvested in…
Ueno & Yanesen
Exploring Yanesen can be thirsty work so thank heavens for this craft-beer bar, a cosy place with some outdoor seating. It's part of a charming complex of…
Roppongi, Akasaka & Around
As well as serving coffee from local third-wave roasters Little Nap, this super-stylish cafe casts a beguiling spell with its creative range of doughnuts…
Asakusa & Sumida River
This stylish coffee shop has an interior that mixes traditional Japanese dark wood with more modern features. In addition to hand-drip coffee, light meals…
Kōrakuen & Akihabara
This charming cafe, which also sells alcohol, is stacked with antique goodies, including rocking horses, clocks, puppets, old photos and beautifully…
Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
Teeny-tiny Tight is always a good bet in Nonbei-yokochō, the narrow nightlife strip along the elevated JR tracks. Like the name suggests, it's a tight fit…
Tokyo
This coffee counter looks like it could be the work of Studio Ghibli: a wooden cottage secreted in the woodsy fringes of Inokashira-kōen concealing a…
Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
Lively, loud and filled with bohemian characters, Never Never Land is a long-running fixture on Shimokita's bar circuit. It's a good place to wind up when…
Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
Pretty much everything here is chipped, frayed or torn – and none of it is artifice. This well-worn and well-loved bar, open for some 40-odd years, is…
Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
Beat is a dive in the best sense of the word, comfortably shabby with cheap drinks (from ¥600), no cover, late hours, lipstick (blood?) red walls, random…
Tokyo
Sub Store is many things: used-vinyl store, sometime art gallery, Indonesian restaurant (the original Sub Store is in Jakarta) and always a great place to…
Roppongi, Akasaka & Around
Stare out from this serene tea lounge across the beautiful late-16th-century garden, hidden behind International House of Japan. There are plenty of…
Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
Oath is a tiny space covered in gilt and mirrors, dripping with chandeliers and absolutely not taking itself seriously. It's a very popular spot for pre…
Roppongi, Akasaka & Around
Coffee making is treated as an exact science at this sleek stand in Toranomon Hills. Here you'll find gleaming espresso machines, test tubes of coffee…
Ueno & Yanesen
In business for over two decades, this authentic pub is the rare expat hang-out on the east side of town. There's live music most weekends and on some…
Kōrakuen & Akihabara
Tokyo's third-wave coffee scene is seeping into the old student haunt of Jimbōchō. The speciality here is single-origin beans, roasted very lightly in…
Tokyo
Cocktail Shobō is part used-book store, part cocktail bar, and 100% a labour of love, in a vintage wooden house where the bar counter doubles as a…
Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
On some weekend nights, indie livehouse WWW goes into club mode, hosting appropriately indie DJs who play to the kind of fashionable Shibuya crowd that…
Ueno & Yanesen
This vintage 1930s coffee shop (the building is actually from the ’20s) in Yanaka is a hang-out for local students and artists. Come early before 11am to…
Asakusa & Sumida River
Hailing originally from Oakland, California, this third-wave coffee outfit has set up its main Tokyo roastery in the Kiyosumi area. Fuel up on an…
Asakusa & Sumida River
Set in a 19th-century wooden warehouse that beat the 1923 earthquake and WWII, this wonderfully cosy space serves coffee, tea and, after 6pm, cocktails…
Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
Mother is a classic Shimo-Kitazawa bar with a soundtrack from the ’60s and ’70s and an undulating, womb-like interior covered in mosaic tile. It does…
Asakusa & Sumida River
This delightful cafe is combined with a boutique selling the quality leathergoods of Tamura Kosuke. There's good coffee and smoothies to go with some…
Tokyo
In a handy location near Tokyo Station, this contemporary-style craft-beer pub attracts groups of after-work office workers keeping it lively. There are…
Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
Bear Pond's thick syrupy 'angel stain' espresso (¥690) is considered holy grail by many. The owner only pulls a limited number before noon; lattes etc are…
Ueno & Yanesen
It's fitting that Yanaka, which refuses to trash the past, would have a bar that doubles as a used bookstore. Sure, the books are in Japanese but you can…
Roppongi, Akasaka & Around
Dress to impress to gain entry to this bling-tastic, two-level dance club that's one of the classier late-night joints around Roppongi. It's always free…
Kōrakuen & Akihabara
Off an alley parallel to Yasukuni-dōri, this wonderfully retro cafe plays old tango tunes on the sound system and serves blends such as Kilimanjaro coffee…
Tokyo
This rustic cafe and art gallery is worth dropping by for a drink and a snack break if you're exploring the Agata Takezawa Building. As well as coffees,…
Asakusa & Sumida River
Run by a wild gang of local hippies, 'Cuzn is the kind of bar where anything can happen: a barbecue, a jam session or all-night karaoke, for example.
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