The Tokyo Top 202026
The twenty rooms we would send someone to in Tokyo this year, in order.
How this list was built
Ordered by NOX editorial score, weighted with Instagram freshness, room impact, scene importance and longevity. An editor can lock any position. See /about for the full method.
The full methodWOMB
Four floors around a mirror-ball atrium in Maruyamachō. The room that most visitors mean when they say they went clubbing in Tokyo, and still a good answer.
VENT
A basement with a custom system and a strictly music-first policy. If you only have one night in Tokyo and you care about techno, come here.
Liquidroom
Sound Museum Vision
UNIT
Circus Tokyo
Bar Martha
Tannoy Autographs, a wall of vinyl and a rule against raising your voice. The archetype of the Tokyo listening bar.
Zerotokyo
Forestlimit
JBS
Bonobo
A converted wooden house near Yoyogi-Uehara holding maybe forty people. Take your shoes off upstairs.
Solfa
Aoyama Tunnel
Contact-free room: Fai Aoyama
Trump Room
Oath
Tiny, mirrored, and open until the trains restart. Where Shibuya goes at five in the morning.