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  1. Address
    2-chōme-16-3 Ginza, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan · Tokyo
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    Closed now, opens Sat 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–5 PM

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  2. Address
    6 223 Koyamachō, Kita Ward, Kyoto, 603-8152, Japan · Kyoto
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    Closed now, opens Sat 9 AM

    Friday 9 AM–5 PM

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  3. Address
    17-7 Ikedachō, Kita Ward, Osaka, 530-0033, Japan · Osaka
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    Closed now, opens Sat 9 AM

    Friday 9 AM–6 PM

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  4. Address
    2-chōme-2-18 Edobori, Nishi Ward, Osaka, 550-0002, Japan · Osaka
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    Closed now, opens Sat 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–7:30 PM

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  5. Address
    51 Kameyacho, Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, 600-8451, Japan · Kyoto
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    Closed now, opens Sat 9 AM

    Friday 9 AM–5 PM

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  6. Address
    1-chōme-2-2 Momoi, Suginami City, Tokyo 167-0034, Japan · Tokyo
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    Closed now, opens Sat 8:30 AM

    Friday 8:30 AM–7 PM

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  7. Address
    1-chōme-13-8 Hirano, Koto City, Tokyo 135-0023, Japan · Tokyo
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    Closed now, opens Sat 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–5 PM

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  8. A New York roaster that planted a flag in Osaka's quieter Kitahama district, this specialty coffee shop leans into minimalist design and natural light in a way that makes laptops appear almost as often as flat whites. The pour-overs get the attention they deserve, and the baristas can actually explain why. A good place to remember that Osaka has neighborhoods where nothing is especially loud.





  9. Address
    1-chōme-18-9 Gōtokuji, Setagaya City, Tokyo 154-0021, Japan · Tokyo
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 9 AM

    Friday 8:30 AM–6 PM

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  10. Rank 2118. Kaikado

    Coffee


    Address
    352 Sumiyoshichō, Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, 600-8143, Japan · Kyoto
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 8 AM

    Friday 8 AM–5:30 PM

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  11. Address
    551 Yamanakachō, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto, 604-0815, Japan · Kyoto
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–6 PM

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  12. Address
    382-3 Mogamichō, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto, 604-8303, Japan · Kyoto
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–6 PM

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  13. Rank 2118. Sniite

    Coffee




  14. Address
    7-chōme-6-9 Takadono, Asahi-ku, Osaka, 535-0031, Japan · Osaka
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–5 PM

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  15. Rank 2142. Aidaya

    Japanese Noodle Shop


  16. Rank 2142. Alt

    Coffee


    Address
    28-4 Shinsenenchō, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto, 604-8371, Japan · Kyoto
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–6 PM

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  17. Rank 2142. Kagura-ya

    Japanese Noodle Shop


  18. Kiha is a train-themed standing bar where the decor commits harder than most commuters do. Ambient rail sounds play, empty ekiben boxes line the staircase, and upstairs there's a full replica of a train car, with conductor outfits for photos. You pay by the clock rather than the drink, so the snacks stay simple: canned sardines under cheese, karaage, fries. It's The Infatuation's pick for both Tokyo's best bars and izakayas.


  19. Rank 2142. Kissa Ray

    Coffee



  20. Rank 2142. Kushiwakamaru

    Yakitori Japanese




  21. Address
    1-chōme-5-8 Kitahama, Chuo Ward, Osaka, 541-0041, Japan · Osaka
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–11 PM

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  22. Address
    244 Daimonjichō, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto, 604-0907, Japan · Kyoto
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 9 AM

    Friday 9 AM–6 PM

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  23. By day this is a fishcake shop with trays of neatly arranged product and no particular interest in your evening plans. At 7pm it flips into a standing-room oden bar tucked into Harmonica Yokocho, where you eat simmered fishcakes off your feet and drink sake in cheap, small cups. Tell the staff when you're halfway through and they'll top it off with oden broth, which locals insist helps the hangover. Nobody has verified this, but it's warm.


    Address
    1 Chome-1-8 Kichijoji Honcho, Musashino, Tokyo 180-0004, Japan
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–6:30 PM

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  24. Address
    3-chōme-7-2 Hirano, Koto City, Tokyo 135-0023, Japan · Tokyo
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    Closed now, opens Sat 10 AM

    Friday 9 AM–5 PM

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  25. Ball is a tiny natural wine bar in Koto City, built around a U-shaped standing counter where every glass costs the same ¥1,000, so ordering requires no math and very little courage. The list runs to bottles from Japan and France, and the food is the kind of small-plate cooking that makes you forget the lack of chairs, including chicken drumlets fried to look like tulips. It fills up by 6pm on a Monday, so arrive early.


  26. Bar Lupin is a windowless basement cocktail bar in Ginza, named after the gentleman thief and long a drinking spot for Japan's literary heavyweights. Dazai and Ranpo both put in their hours here. The room runs dark and Showa-era, with weathered books on the shelves and black-and-white portraits of famous patrons watching you order. The Golden Fizz comes with whipped egg yolk and a writer's endorsement.


  27. Rank 2161. Bar Orchard

    Cocktail Bar

    Bar Orchard is a Ginza cocktail bar where the menu is a heap of fresh fruit and you point at one, like a very expensive farmers market. The bartender builds something tiki-ish around your pick, then serves it in a ceramic shark, a turkey leg, or a tiny bathtub with suds on top. A flock of rubber ducks in outfits watches from the bar. Seats vanish fast, so arrive when the doors open at 6.



  28. Address
    Japan, 〒104-0061 Tokyo, Chuo City, Ginza, 6-chōme−12−16 片桐ビル Ⅱ 2階 · Tokyo
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–2 PM, 6 PM–9:30 PM

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    Website
  29. Rank 2161. Chatei Hatou

    Japanese Café






  30. Rank 2161. common.

    Coffee




  31. Rank 2161. EUREKA!

    Sake Japanese Cocktail Bar

    A sake bar up a flight of stairs in Nishiazabu, where the sign reads "strawberry meeting," a translation of ichigo ichie that sounds like a very polite jam session. The list runs past 200 bottles, from sparkling to cloudy doburoku, plus a few made with local breweries that you won't find elsewhere. The egg in black squid ink mayonnaise looks like a river rock until you crack it, which is the whole bit.


  32. Rank 2161. Fuglen Tokyo

    Nordic Coffee


  33. Rank 2161. Gen Yamamoto

    Cocktail Bar

    Eight seats, one bartender, and a flower chosen to match each drink: Gen Yamamoto runs cocktails the way Kyoto runs kaiseki. You choose a flight of four, six, or seven courses, each one built around whatever ingredient the season hands over, each served in its own piece of glassware. It is a cocktail bar in the way a tea ceremony is a cup of tea. Yamamoto-san holds a spot on The 50 Discovery list.





  34. Rank 2161. Jazz Bar Samurai

    Cocktail Bar

    A small jazz listening bar on the fifth floor in Shinjuku, where the soundtrack is smooth, the drinks are dive-bar cheap, and roughly a thousand cat figurines watch you order. A five-foot white maneki neko presides over the shelves like a landlord. The cocktail list leans feline, including a peach-schnapps number topped with a neon green cherry, and most pours cost about what a train ride does.


  35. Rank 2161. Kirimugiya Jinroku

    Japanese Noodle Shop



  36. Rank 2161. Kosoan

    Dessert





  37. Address
    5-chōme-65-4 Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo 151-0053, Japan · Tokyo
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 9 AM

    Friday 9 AM–7 PM

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  38. Little Soul Cafe is a listening bar in Setagaya where the owner shakes your drink, then crosses the room to pick the next record from a wall of vinyl that runs well past ten thousand. Soul and funk come through a very good sound system, and you'll sit at a seven-seat counter or sink into a couch that feels borrowed from a friend. The menu is short except for the rum, which gets four pages. Smoking is still allowed.


  39. Rank 2161. Ok Coffee

    Coffee


  40. Rank 2161. Omnipollos

    Beer Bar

    Omnipollos is a craft beer bar from a Stockholm brewery, tucked into a former eel restaurant with a traditional tile roof, rainbow neon, and a yellow smiling-face lantern, all dropped into a grey business district. Inside it goes psychedelic, with baby blue walls, cloud-shaped lanterns, and ombre tabletops. Half the taps are Japanese, and the beer slushy with soft serve is a cheerful way to ignore your commute. It's on The Infatuation's Best Bars In Tokyo list.




  41. Rank 2161. PST Higashi Azabu

    Neapolitan Pizzeria


  42. Rock Fish is a standing bar in Ginza where the kakubin highball is the whole conversation, and regulars put them away by the dozen. The whisky is a Suntory bottling that reaches almost no one else, the soda is a Japanese brand sharp enough to feel in your throat, and there's no ice, so the glass is simply chilled until it behaves. The Infatuation lists it among Tokyo's best bars. A fried sesame sphere handles snack duty.







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