From Jazz clubs where you can enjoy drinks with your friends to candlelit concerts, there are plenty of places to enjoy live music after work. Here we introduce 13 places where you can casually enjoy live music after work.
1,Abbey Road Roppongi
Abbey Road Roppongi is a place where you can enjoy drinks and food while listening to live music by The Parrots, the main band that has performed with Paul McCartney. Other Beatles tribute bands will also perform and take song requests. Harry Styles, the Backstreet Boys, and other international artists have visited the restaurant.
📍 B2, FORUM Imperial Roppongi 2, 5-16-52 Roppongi, Minato-ku
👉Official website🚇About 4 minutes walk from Exit 3 of Roppongi Station on the Hibiya and Oedo Lines.
🎟️The Parrots Performing days 4,000 yen (4,500 yen before Fri., Sat. and holidays)
2, Keystone Club Tokyo
Founded in 1980 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, this jazz club was relocated in 2016 to a new location halfway between Roppongi and Nogizaka stations on the Oedo Line, equipped with the latest sound and lighting equipment and a Steinway grand piano. Enjoy authentic Nepalese cuisine such as Nepalese sets and Kathmandu plates with live music.
📍 Jasmine Bldg. 2F, 7-4-12 Roppongi, Minato-ku
👉Official Website🚇Toei Oedo Line Roppongi Station Exit 8, 2 min. walk
3, Candlelight Concert
This is a regularly held concert where you can listen to music in the light of more than 1,000 LED candles that envelop the venue. The concerts have been held at venues around the world, featuring not only classical music, but also jazz, soul, blues, and the latest pop music, and have been well received by people who are not familiar with music appreciation as a unique experience.
📍 Oji Hall, Christ Shinagawa Association, Mitsukoshi Theater, Lutheran Ichigaya Hall, etc.
Click here for 🎫Candlelight Concert Tickets
4, COTTON CLUB
COTTON CLUB is a legendary club in Harlem, N.Y. in the 1920s during the Prohibition Era that gave birth to some of the biggest stars in music history, including Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Lena Horne. The club offers a la carte as well as dinner courses, along with live performances by talented artists, mainly from overseas.
📍 2F Tokyo Building TOKIA, 2-7-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku
👉Official Website🚇About 3 minutes walk from Marunouchi South Exit of Tokyo Station
5, SOMETIME
Established in 1975, this long-established jazz club in Kichijoji offers a lunch menu from 12:00 to 17:00 and food and drinks from 18:00 to 22:00.The atmosphere is also appealing to beginners and those who come to the club alone.
📍 1-11-31 B1F Kichijoji Honcho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo
👉Official website🚇About 3 minutes walk from Kichijoji Station North Exit
6, JZ Brat SOUND OF TOKYO
A jazz bar located on the tower-side terrace on the second floor of the Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel, about a 5-minute walk from Shibuya Station. While listening to live music, mainly by Japanese musicians, ranging from standard jazz to fusion, soul, pops, etc., you can enjoy French-based dishes using seasonal vegetables, fish, meat, and desserts prepared by the patissier together.
📍 2F Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel, 26-1 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku
👉Official website🚇5 min. walk from West Exit of South Ticket of Shibuya Station on JR and Tokyo Metro Ginza Line
7, Shinjuku Pit Inn
A prestigious jazz club in Shinjuku. You can enjoy live music from 14:00 to 16:30 in the daytime and from 19:30 in the evening. Evening sessions are also available at casual prices ranging from 3ooo yen to 4,000 yen with one drink.
📍 B1 Accord Shinjuku, 2-12-4 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku
👉Official website5 minutes walk from 🚇Shinjuku 3-chome Station
8, NARU Ochanomizu
Established in 1969, this is a jazz club in Ochanomizu. In addition to performances by talented musicians, the club also features collaborations with young musicians and jam sessions in which guests from the general public can participate. The music charge is reasonable, starting at 3,500 yen, and with two 60-minute performances per day, even first-time visitors to the jazz club will be able to enjoy themselves.
📍 2-1 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku
👉Official website🚇About 1 minute walk from Ochanomizubashi exit of JR Ochanomizu station, about 3 minutes walk from Metro Marunouchi line Ochanomizu station
9, Bar & Jazz Lounge Maduro (Grand Hyatt Tokyo)
A bar and jazz lounge where you can enjoy live music and cigars by artists from overseas. In addition to its signature Mojito cocktail and other cocktails and rare whiskeys, the bar offers a wide variety of tapas dishes and desserts. Music cover charge 2,200 yen.
📍 Grand Hyatt Tokyo 4F, 6-10-3 Roppongi, Minato-ku
👉Official Website🚇To Grand Hyatt Tokyo, take Hibiya Line Roppongi Station, Exit 1C and walk about 3 minutes.
10, Billboard Live TOKYO
The service areas on the 3rd and 4th floors offer food and beverage with staff service, while the casual areas on the 4th and 5th floors are for counter seating with one drink. The casual area on the 4th and 5th floors offers counter seating with one drink.
📍 Tokyo Midtown Garden Terrace 4F, 9-7-4 Akasaka, Minato-ku
👉Official website🚇Tokyo Midtown Garden Terrace is about a 10-minute walk from Roppongi Station on the Hibiya Line.
11, Blues Alley Japan
A jazz club in Meguro that opened in 1990 with trumpeter Miles Davis for its inaugural performance. It offers a carefully selected drink lineup, including a seasonally changing menu and original cocktails.
📍 B1F Meguro Holic Hotel, 11-3-14 Meguro, Meguro-ku
👉Official website🚇About 5 minutes walk from Meguro Station on JR Yamanote Line
12, Blue Note Place
Blue Note Japan’s new dining format opened in Yebisu Garden Place in 2022. Located on the site of the former Beer Station Ebisu, this large two-story atrium with over 200 seats will feature a dining room, bar, lounge, private rooms, and terrace. Live music and DJ performances can be enjoyed along with modern American-themed dining.
📍 Yebisu Garden Place (4-20-4 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
👉Official Website🚇About 5 minutes walk from East Exit of Ebisu Station on JR Yamanote Line, about 7 minutes walk from Exit 1 of Ebisu Station on Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line
13, BODY&SOUL
A long-established jazz club founded in 1974 in Shinjuku Hyakuninmachi as a late-night jazz cafe playing jazz on vinyl records, and newly relocated to Shibuya in 2021. As a jazz cafe by day, it serves special coffee, freshly baked bread, and lunch.
📍 B-15, Shibuya Homes, 2-1 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
👉Official website🚇About 7 minutes walk from Hachiko Plaza of Shibuya Station