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Tokyo offers extraordinary depth rather than one dominant cocktail style. Tiny master-led counters, modern hotel bars, Japanese ingredients, experimental techniques and obsessive classicism coexist, often within rooms where a handful of seats makes the bartender’s approach intensely personal.

7 approved bars

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Where to go

Bar Benfiddich

Yamatoya Building 9F, 1-13-7 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0023, Japan

Hiroyasu Kayama approaches bartending with the instincts of an apothecary, farmer and craftsman.

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High Five

Efflore Ginza 5 Building B1F, 5-4-15 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan

High Five represents the precision and restraint associated with the Japanese cocktail bar at its most recognisable.

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Virtù

Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi, 39F, 1-2-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0004, Japan

Thirty-nine floors above Tokyo, Virtù works between two drinking cultures.

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The SG Club

1-7-8 Jinnan, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0041, Japan

Shingo Gokan’s SG Club occupies several personalities at one Shibuya address.

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The Bellwood

41-31 Udagawacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0042, Japan

The Bellwood looks back to Japan’s Taishō-era cafés without getting stuck there.

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Gen Yamamoto

Anniversary Building 1F, 1-6-4 Azabu-Juban, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0045, Japan

Gen Yamamoto needs very little: eight seats, seasonal Japanese produce, fine spirits and the bartender himself.

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Bar Orchard Ginza

Sanraku Building 7F, 6-5-16 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Bar Orchard Ginza is a small seventh-floor bar built around fresh seasonal fruit.

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