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Tokyo Club Venues

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

AZUMAYA — Shibuya →

A DJ bar on the second floor of Spotify O-EAST in Dogenzaka, open 9pm to 4am with a flat music charge and a different bill every night.

BOSON — Asakusabashi →

A fifth-floor music bar a minute from Asakusabashi station, with a balcony over the street and nights running from jazz and soul to reggae and house.

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.

clubasia — Shibuya →

A Maruyamacho institution open since 1996, clubasia runs multi-floor nights spanning techno, hard techno, hip-hop, house and live shows.

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.

heavysick ZERO — Nakano →

A Nakano basement open since 2002, run by HEAVY SICK LABEL — one of the longest-running independent club operations in west Tokyo.

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.

MIDNIGHT EAST — Shibuya →

The late-night club programme at Spotify O-EAST on Dogenzaka — big-room Shibuya nights built around the venue's concert-scale sound and stage.

NUMM — Shibuya →

An audiophile club in Shibuya with an analog-first booth, a wood-diffused room and a custom five-way system, curating house, disco, dub, soul and jazz.

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.

solfa — Nakameguro →

A long-running three-room basement in Nakameguro, with a main floor, a lounge and a second bar, all on an RCF system and Technics decks.

SPREAD — Shimokitazawa →

A basement club in Shimokitazawa. Cash only at the door, and no cloakroom or lockers — plan what you carry before you go.

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.