Roppongi

A nightclub a minute from Roppongi Station, on the ground and basement floors of the Tower of Vabel, open from 21:00 to 5:00 every day of the week. Its own site describes it as one of the largest in Roppongi.

Entry is priced by day and by gender: on weekdays men pay ¥2,000 with a drink ticket or ¥5,000 for the open bar, and women enter free with the open bar at ¥2,000. At weekends men pay ¥4,000 for two drink tickets or ¥10,000 for ten, and women still enter free. Everyone is asked for photo ID at the door and a dress code is enforced.

Good to know

• Bring photo ID. The club states that every guest is asked for it at the entrance.
• There is a dress code, and the club asks guests to dress up.
• The open bar excludes bottle drinks and Red Bull products.
• Prices and entry conditions can change for special events and in some seasons.
• VIP tables are charged as two-hour sets, and 25 percent is added for tax and service on top of the table charge and the required bottles.

A club on the second floor of the Rokumon Building in Roppongi 6-chome, open from 22:00 until 4:30 the next morning, Tuesday to Sunday, and closed on Mondays. The whole site is published in English.

Guests must be 20 or over and are asked for photo ID at the door, and a dress code applies. Admission is set event by event rather than fixed, so the club asks you to look at the page for the night you want or to contact it first.

Good to know

• Bring photo ID. Entry is limited to guests aged 20 or over.
• A dress code applies; the club asks you to use its enquiry form if you are unsure what to wear.
• Door prices are not published. Check the event page or ask before you go.
• For a VIP table the club asks for your preferred date, group size and budget by enquiry.
• On 30 October 2026 its event calendar showed no scheduled events, so check before travelling.

A shot bar on the second floor right at the Roppongi crossing, next door to Wendy's, open until 5:00 every day. There are two rooms: a main bar at the back and a front bar looking out over the crossing. The walls and ceiling are hung with Native American artefacts.

A drum hangs above the bar, and anyone buying a round for the whole bar beats it. Whoever buys the most rounds in a month tops the bar's leaderboard and gets a name plate fixed to the ceiling. The bar also runs a fifteen-shot challenge. Its site is written in English first.

Good to know

• Drink prices are not published on the bar's own site.
• The front bar overlooks the Roppongi crossing; the main bar is at the back.
• The bar has been running for about thirty years, by its own account of its anniversary.

A British pub in Roppongi 3-chome, open since the 2002 football World Cup. It has a long bar, a large seating area, imported wooden furniture, a smoking booth and two dart boards that are free to use. The food is British pub cooking: fish and chips, homemade pies, bangers and mash, and a traditional Sunday roast served from noon every Sunday with horseradish and mint sauce brought in from the UK.

Five large screens carry live Premier League football, rugby, F1, UFC and AFL, and the pub says it will try to show any game you ask for. It opens at 17:00 on weekdays and from noon at weekends, closing at midnight, with the kitchen stopping at 23:00.

Good to know

• The kitchen closes at 23:00, an hour before the bar.
• This is one of the few places in this guide with an indoor smoking booth.
• Menu prices are not published in a form we could read, so none are listed here.
• The pub takes table bookings through its own site.

Torikizoku is a yakitori chain where every item on the food menu costs ¥410 including tax, and this branch sits on the sixth floor of a building three minutes south-east of Exit 5 of Roppongi Station. It has 11 counter seats and 47 table seats, and serves until 4:00 in the morning seven days a week.

The branch page lists no indoor smoking booth and no outdoor smoking area. Power outlets, baby chairs, takeaway by advance order and online reservations are available; there is no parking, no barrier-free access and no lunch service.

Good to know

• Takeaway has to be ordered by the day before.
• Opening hours change on some days. The branch page listed 3 and 23 November as days starting at 16:00.
• No parking, no barrier-free access and no lunch service.

Kushikatsu Tanaka serves Osaka-style kushikatsu, skewers coated in batter and deep-fried, three minutes from Exit 2 of Roppongi Station. There are 40 seats across counters, tables, tatami and box seating, and the house rule is that the shared sauce must not be dipped twice.

This branch has free Wi-Fi and allows pets, and there is no smoking booth. It opens at 16:00 on weekdays and from noon at weekends, and closes at 23:30 every day.

Good to know

• Guests aged 20 or over pay a ¥319 (tax included) cover charge each, even without alcohol, and must order at least one drink.
• Do not dip a skewer in the sauce twice. The sauce is shared within your group and discarded afterwards.
• There is no smoking booth at this branch.
• No kids' chairs, no parking and no lunch menu.

A ramen and tsukemen shop whose idea is that you eat ramen in a private room. Besides 8 counter seats there are nine private rooms: one for two, five for four, two for six and one for eight. It is three minutes from Roppongi Station and open every day of the year.

It runs from 11:00 until 9:00 the following morning, and on Sundays until 5:00. Bowls are ¥1,180 to ¥1,280 and dipping noodles ¥1,280 to ¥1,380, with a larger portion ¥150 more. The menu is published in English as well as Japanese and Chinese.

Good to know

• Smoking is separated rather than banned.
• When Monday is a public holiday, the Sunday closes at 9:00 and the Monday at 5:00 instead.
• Toppings are ¥150 to ¥280 each, or ¥600 for all of them.

An udon restaurant on the seventh floor of Axall Roppongi, one minute from the Oedo line exit. It moved into this building on 1 September 2024 after nineteen years elsewhere in Roppongi, and every seat is designed differently: counter, tables, box seats, a terrace, two private rooms and two VIP rooms.

It serves from 11:00 until 8:00 the following morning, with last orders at 7:00, which makes it one of the last kitchens working in the area. On Sundays and public holidays it closes at 23:00 instead.

Good to know

• Sunday is the one night it is not open late. Check the day before you plan a late meal here.
• The restaurant's own menu page shows dishes as photographs without prices, so no prices are listed here.

A Japanese restaurant on the corner of the Nishi-Azabu crossing, ten minutes' walk from Roppongi Station, serving soba made each morning from stone-ground buckwheat, skewers grilled over binchotan charcoal, and tempura. There are 260 seats across two floors, with counter seats, tables and private rooms.

It is open every day from 11:30 until 3:30 in the morning, with last orders at 2:45 for food and 3:00 for drinks, and the whole restaurant is non-smoking. A vegan menu and a halal course are both published. The building was the model for a scene in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, and is where the Bush-Koizumi izakaya summit was held.

Good to know

• The minimum spend after 17:00 is ¥1,650 per person including tax, so a single drink will not cover it.
• The whole restaurant is non-smoking.
• Reservations are taken by phone between 11:30 and 22:00.
• Parking is six spaces shared with the sushi restaurant upstairs, with a height limit of 2.3m.
• The Japanese text on its own site says it closes at 3:30 while the English text says 3:00; the hours table gives 3:30.

Edo-style sushi on the third floor of the Gonpachi building at the Nishi-Azabu crossing, made in front of you at the counter. Besides the counter there are tables, private tatami rooms for twelve and seats on a garden terrace, 100 seats in all.

It opens at 17:00 and serves until 2:00 in the morning, with last orders at 1:00, every day of the year. The restaurant is entirely non-smoking, and a vegan menu is published alongside the dinner menu.

Good to know

• The minimum spend after 17:00 is ¥1,650 per person including tax.
• The restaurant is entirely non-smoking.
• It sits above Gonpachi Nishi-Azabu, which keeps different hours and closes later.