In this article, we’ve carefully selected summer spots you’ll want to visit, ranging from hotel pools in Tokyo to beer gardens with night views.
The hotel features the “Sky Pool,” a rooftop pool for guests ages 6 and up, and the “Diamond Pool,” a family-friendly pool surrounded by greenery. On Fridays from July through August, the hotel also hosts “NIGHT POOL LIVE,” where guests can enjoy live music.
Surrounded by a vast Japanese garden and offering a refreshing breeze, the open-air downtown resort “GARDEN POOL” is open again this year. Opened in 1966—two years after the hotel’s debut— it is also known as the pool that first introduced the now-classic “night pool” concept in 1999. The “Midnight Pool,” open exclusively to guests 18 and older, is held on select days in August.
A lush, natural pool where you can soak up a resort-like atmosphere while gazing at the Tokyo Tower towering right before your eyes. It features a 25-meter-by-11-meter garden pool, a children’s pool with a depth of 50 cm where even small children can play safely, and a lawn area with complimentary umbrellas and deck chairs.
Comprising a 30m × 11m main pool, a 48m-long straight lap pool, and a garden café serving cocktails that enhance the resort atmosphere, it boasts one of the largest scales among hotel pools in Tokyo. We recommend making an online reservation for a specific date.
Located on the 7th floor of the hotel , adjacent to the Tokyo Dome, this 20m × 10m pool overlooks the Ferris wheel and roller coaster. It operates on a strict rotation system with two sessions: Session 1 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM and Session 2 from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
A beer terrace located on the 13th floor of the Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan, 40 meters above ground level. There are three plan options to choose from, all including unlimited drinks, such as the “Sky Beer Plan” and the “Blissful Meat Platter Plan.” The unlimited drink selection features a wide variety of options, including Suntory draft beer and craft beers, as well as gin, whiskey, wine, and sour cocktails, along with a wide range of low-alcohol and non-alcoholic beverages.
From the rooftop garden of “Ark Hills South Tower” in Roppongi 1-chome, you can take in a panoramic view of the city. Options include a casual BBQ course, the “STEAK & LOBSTER BBQ Premium Course” featuring bone-in beef and lobster, and the “Buy Meat Underground and BBQ Plan,” where you can purchase your favorite cuts at “Fukushimaya” or “Niku-ya Kaku-no-shin F” on the B1 floor of the same building and bring them up to the rooftop.
In front of the main entrance, the “Tokyo Tower ‘Bekkaku Kaku Highball Garden’”—where you can savor a “Bekkaku Kaku Highball”—runs until October 12 (Mon, holiday). Meanwhile, on the rooftop of Foot Town, Jim Beam and “Mother Farm Genghis Khan” are hosting the“JIMBEAM HIGHBALL GARDEN ‘Rooftop Genghis Khan’” with all-you-can-eat and drink options. Both events offer the perfect setting to enjoy a meal while looking up at Tokyo Tower.
At Shinagawa Season Terrace, you can enjoy both a barbecue and a beer garden without bringing anything of your own in the vast plaza overlooking Tokyo Tower. They offer a wide variety of plans, including all-you-can-drink courses featuring their original craft beer brewed on-site, as well as a variety of wines and cocktails, and a “Kids’ Plan” barbecue course for children up to elementary school age. Open year-round.
A Tokyo summer tradition since its debut in 1984, this event marks its 41st year this year. This year, there are two plans available: a “All-You-Can-Eat-and-Drink Plan” with a two-hour time limit, and a “Weber BBQ Plan with All-You-Can-Drink,” which provides a tarp tent for each group and features Weber gas grills.
