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Friday, September 18

Local press Tokyo Cheapo

Shimokita Halloween ’26

Shimokitazawa brings Halloween back to the undergound with an all-night party across two iconic venues. What to expect The night spans two neighboring live houses — Basement Bar and Three — with a single ticket covering both, so you can…Events at Tokyo Cheapo

Patrick Balfe · Events

Thursday, September 17

Wednesday, September 16

Local press Tokyo Weekender

8 Japanese Books To Curl Up With This Fall

It’s finally the beginning of everyone’s favorite reading season; there are few things in life better than sitting with a great book at a cozy cafe or on a park bench once the air gets cooler. From eerie locked-room mysteries and ghost…at Tokyo Weekender

Eugenie Shin

Local press Tokyo Cheapo

Tokyo Atlas International Art Exhibition

Tokyo’s waterfront is getting a free, city-scale art exhibition this autumn — with a Yayoi Kusama installation inside a 19th-century gun battery, a French artist living in a giant bottle, and a normally sealed underground car park opened…Events at Tokyo Cheapo

Patrick Balfe · Events

Local press Tokyo Cheapo

Tokyo Anime Next

Ikebukuro gets its own anime festival over Halloween weekend, and this first edition is essentially a prologue: four days of screenings, exhibitions, and workshops that close with a live orchestra playing anime scores at Tokyo Tatemono…Events at Tokyo Cheapo

Patrick Balfe · Events

Local press Tokyo Cheapo

Shibuya Entertainment Festival 2026

One wristband, 17 Shibuya nightclubs and music bars, and a night that does not stop until 4:30 a.m. The Shibuya Entertainment Festival is back on Monday, November 2, 2026, this time marking 10 years since it launched. Known in Japanese as…Events at Tokyo Cheapo

Patrick Balfe · Events

Local press Tokyo Cheapo

Asakusa Tourousai Lantern Festival 2026

For eight nights in September, the grounds of Asakusa Shrine and the lanes around it fill with illuminated lanterns — hand-decorated, lit from dusk, and switched off at half past nine. It is a quiet counterweight to Asakusa’s daytime…Events at Tokyo Cheapo

Patrick Balfe · Events

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Local press Tokyo Cheapo

Watashitachi no Kuni: Our Country

A calligrapher, a textile artist, and a textile-printing artisan spent a year working out how to turn wet ink into cloth. The results take over the atrium of Daikanyama’s Hillside Forum for six days in October, and it costs nothing to walk…Events at Tokyo Cheapo

Patrick Balfe · Events

Local press Tokyo Cheapo

Puerto Rico Festival 2026

Salsa, reggaeton, and Caribbean cooking take over a slice of the Toyosu waterfront on Saturday, September 19, and it costs nothing to walk in. The Puerto Rico Festival runs for one afternoon and evening at Citabria Baypark, an open-air…Events at Tokyo Cheapo

Patrick Balfe · Events

Local press Tokyo Cheapo

Pompompurin Pom Fes 2026

Sanrio’s custard-pudding dog turns 30, and the party is a free two-day festival on the waterfront at Yokohama’s Red Brick Warehouse. What to expect Pom Fes marks Pompompurin’s 30th debut anniversary with stage appearances by the character…Events at Tokyo Cheapo

Patrick Balfe · Events

Making waves

  1. Up 24 FolkloreTokyo Eat score, 74
  2. Up 24 Bar D藤沢市 Eat score, 74
  3. Up 24 Memento MoriTokyo Eat score, 74
  4. Up 24 High FiveTokyo Eat score, 74
  5. Up 24 Bulgari Ginza BarTokyo Eat score, 74
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  1. Up 13 Sumibi Yakiniku NakaharaTokyo Eat score, 78
  2. Up 9 DEN KUSHI FLORITokyo Eat score, 78
  3. Up 7 HOSHINOYA TokyoTokyo Stay score, 81
  4. Up 7 Park Hyatt TokyoTokyo Stay score, 81
  5. Up 7 acaChuo Ward Eat score, 83
  6. Up 7 Sushi NambaChiyoda Ward Eat score, 83
  7. Up 7 TakiyaMinato Ward Eat score, 83
  8. Up 7 Higashiazabu AmamotoMinato Ward Eat score, 83
  9. Up 7 Sushi AraiChuo Ward Eat score, 83
  10. Up 7 Sushi ShunjiMinato Ward Eat score, 83
  11. Up 5 TRUNK(HOTEL) YOYOGI PARKTokyo Stay score, 85
  12. Up 5 Nihonbashikakigaracho SugitaChuo Ward Eat score, 85
  13. Up 5 Ginza Sukiyabashi JiroChuo Ward Eat score, 85
  14. Up 5 Sushi IkkoChuo Ward Eat score, 85

Tuesday, September 15

Tokyo’s Best 100 Drink See the list →

Thirteen enter, and Bar Landscape slips to No. 27.

  1. Enters Bar Orchard GinzaTokyo No.14
  2. Enters Cocktail Bar RavenTokyo No.15
  3. Enters Gaslight EveTokyo No.16
  4. Enters Gen YamamotoTokyo No.17
  5. Enters Land Bar ArtisanTokyo No.18
  6. Enters Little SmithTokyo No.19
  7. Enters Mixology SalonTokyo No.20
  8. Enters Mori BarTokyo No.21
  9. Enters SakuraiTokyo No.22
  10. Enters Star BarTokyo No.23
  11. Enters TenderTokyo No.24
  12. Enters The Bar at the Ritz-Carlton TokyoTokyo No.25
  13. Enters TheseTokyo No.26
  14. Slips Bar LandscapeTokyo Was No. 10 No.27
  15. Slips TenderlyTokyo Was No. 15 No.28

Tokyo’s Best 100 Stay See the list →

Park Hyatt Tokyo climbs 25.

  1. Climbs The Okura TokyoTokyo Was No. 9 No.6
  2. Climbs The Peninsula TokyoTokyo Was No. 10 No.7
  3. Climbs TRUNK(HOTEL) YOYOGI PARKTokyo Was No. 32 No.27
  4. Climbs HOSHINOYA TokyoTokyo Was No. 44 No.29
  5. Climbs Park Hyatt TokyoTokyo Was No. 56 No.31
  6. Slips Hotel New Otani Tokyo EXECUTIVE HOUSE ZENTokyo Was No. 5 No.8
  7. Slips Janu TokyoTokyo Was No. 6 No.9
  8. Slips BELLUSTAR TOKYOTokyo Was No. 29 No.32
  9. Slips Fairmont TokyoTokyo Was No. 30 No.33
  10. Slips The Aoyama Grand HotelTokyo Was No. 31 No.34

Monday, September 14

Local press Tokyo Cheapo

Yokohama Jazz Promenade 2026

Yokohama gives over a weekend in October to jazz played across the city at once — concert halls, the Red Brick Warehouse, and stages scattered through the port district. It has been running for decades and bills itself as a festival where…Events at Tokyo Cheapo

Patrick Balfe · Events

The full ranking →

Tokyo’s Best 100

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  1. 1 NarisawaTokyo · Japanese Eat score, 98
  2. 1 SazenkaTokyo · Chinese Eat score, 98
  3. 3 DenTokyo · Japanese Eat score, 97
  4. 3 FlorilègeTokyo · French Eat score, 97
  5. 3 MyojakuTokyo · Japanese Eat score, 97
  6. 3 SÉZANNETokyo · French Eat score, 97
  7. 7 Azabu KadowakiTokyo · Japanese Eat score, 96
  8. 7 HarutakaTokyo · Sushi Eat score, 96
  9. 7 Joël RobuchonTokyo · French Eat score, 96
  10. 7 Kagurazaka IshikawaTokyo · Japanese Eat score, 96

The full 100 → 590 ranked

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Higher than 62% of scored places

In this report

  • One score, 0 to 100, and its rank among every scored place
  • The good stuff within a walk, and within a drive
  • The weather and the air, right at that spot
  • How life goes in the country, and where it ranks

We score the map point and keep no record of who asked. The report names the neighborhood, never the street.

Eat Score

The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

    How we score →

    Drink Score

    The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

      How we score →

      Stay Score

      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

        How we score →

        Do Score

        The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

          How we score →

          Best Place Score

          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. The places are 60% of it: the best of what's within reach, weighed by distance. The setting is the other 40%: how life goes in that country (how people rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are) and what it's like right there (the air, and the weather). If the score looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.