The adverts for Spartacus say nobody ‘over 40 or ill-mannered’ will be admitted. As the club is ...

West and south of Shinbashi station are hundreds of bars where hard-working Japanese ...

One of Ni-chome’s newest bars (opened in summer 2004), Papi Chulos is a friendly place, ...

A small, inexpensive, formerly men-only bar that now admits everyone. Unusually long opening ...

A karaoke cathedral and one of the biggest gay bars in Tokyo, Kusuo not only has plenty of room ...

A fixture on the anglophone gay scene for more than two decades, this spacious bar has been run ...

Opened in 2006, this is one of the newest additions to Ni-chome’s ever-changing gay bar scene. ...

Shinjuku’s GB has long been the most famous bar in Tokyo for East/West encounters of the gay ...

After recent renovations this long-standing basement karaoke bar has begun to draw a younger, ...

Drawing mainly middle-aged athletes, this is a good place for a refreshing cool-down drink ...

Dragon is an aggressively male space in which women may not feel entirely welcome. On the other ...

This bar, associated with the nearby branch of 24 Kaikan, consists of two sections, with street ...

The open-air café and bar, found on Shinjuku Ni-chome's main drag, is a laidback spot for an ...

Each month the walls of this tiny cocktail bar display the work of a different local gay ...

The master of this tiny bar speaks Arabic, German, Russian and French, thanks to his time in ...

A tiny Golden Gai institution, owned by a film fanatic (the place gets its name from the Chris ...

The extreme kitsch of this Shimo-Kitazawa bar, which resembles a mix of gingerbread house, ...

An above-average English pub with a menu designed to reassure expats. The Sunday lunch roast ...

An extremely comfortable bar near Shimo-Kitazawa station run by charismatic Brit expat Paul ...