Tokyo
東京
Tokyo runs on the last train and the first train, with a four-hour gap in between that clubs have organised themselves around: you either leave at midnight or you stay until five. The reward for staying is the most carefully tuned sound in the world.
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Open right now
Thursday 00:01 local
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Rooms published
Saturday
Peak night
20+
Legal drinking age
Asia/Tokyo
Through the night
Peaks at 2 of 11 rooms around 18:00.
The rooms
Ranked by editorial score, weighted with freshness, impact and scene. The method is public.
WOMB
Four floors around a mirror-ball atrium in Maruyamachō. The room that most visitors mean when they say they went clubbing in Tokyo, and still a good answer.
VENT
A basement with a custom system and a strictly music-first policy. If you only have one night in Tokyo and you care about techno, come here.
Sound Museum Vision
Liquidroom
UNIT
Circus Tokyo
Zerotokyo
Bar Martha
Tannoy Autographs, a wall of vinyl and a rule against raising your voice. The archetype of the Tokyo listening bar.
Forestlimit
JBS
Solfa
Bonobo
A converted wooden house near Yoyogi-Uehara holding maybe forty people. Take your shoes off upstairs.
Aoyama Tunnel
Contact-free room: Fai Aoyama
Trump Room
Oath
Tiny, mirrored, and open until the trains restart. Where Shibuya goes at five in the morning.
Ruby Room
Districts
Where to base yourself, and what each part of the city is for.
Shibuya
8The centre of club Tokyo. Everything within a fifteen-minute walk.
Aoyama
3Small, expensive, and unusually good for a late drink.
Ebisu
2Live rooms and listening bars, ten minutes from Shibuya.
Daikanyama
1Smarter, quieter, and home to two of the best rooms.
Nakameguro
1Canal-side. Small basements and good records.
Shinjuku
1Kabukichō, Golden Gai, and the largest concentration of tiny bars on earth.
Nearby scenes
Worth a train, a bus, or a change of flight.
One night in Tokyo?
Give the concierge your hours, your budget and your sound. Get a route through the city’s venues, with timings and door tips for each stop.