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Tokyo Club Venues

What each of Tokyo's clubs and DJ bars is actually like — by area, music and atmosphere.

Bridge Shibuya →

Bridge Shibuya is a long-standing, underground-leaning DJ bar with a dancefloor and veteran house/techno residents, right by Shibuya Crossing.

Bridge Shinjuku →

Bridge Shinjuku is an intimate basement DJ bar in Shinjuku Ni-chome — the Bridge brand's queer-friendly outpost — with house and disco.

CAVE — Koenji →

Koenji Cave is a small, long-running underground DJ bar specializing in psychedelic trance, widely seen as Tokyo's home of the psytrance scene.

CIRCUS Tokyo — Shibuya →

CIRCUS Tokyo is an intimate underground Shibuya club with a basement dancefloor, known for tech house and techno.

ENTER shibuya →

ENTER is an intimate ~150-capacity Jingumae club from the ex-Contact team, built around a center-floor DJ booth with techno and house.

HARLEM — Shibuya →

HARLEM is Shibuya's landmark hip-hop club, long regarded as the home of hip-hop and R&B nightlife in Japan.

HVEN — Nakameguro →

HVEN is an underground, art-driven house/techno space and cafe-bar under the Nakameguro train tracks, run on a Function-One system.

R LOUNGE — Shibuya →

R Lounge is a two-floor Shibuya club on the upper floors of a building in Udagawacho, mixing hip-hop with techno, house and trance.

VENT — Aoyama →

VENT is a sound-obsessed, gallery-like underground club near Omotesando dedicated to deep house and minimal techno.

WOMB — Shibuya →

WOMB is a four-floor Shibuya club known for house, techno and drum & bass, a giant mirror ball and a world-class sound system.

Z Maruyama — Shibuya →

Z Maruyama is a small, sound-focused sister club to WOMB in Shibuya's Maruyamacho, built as an intimate dancefloor for electronic music.

ZEROTOKYO — Shinjuku →

ZEROTOKYO is a massive multi-floor club in the basement of Shinjuku's Tokyu Kabukicho Tower, among Japan's largest, for techno, house and more.