Tokyo Beer Map (Click to enlarge)

The Beer in Japan guide to the good bars in Tokyo and Yokohama – Kanto –  the bars where you can find craft beers on tap or in bottles, or which have an excellent atmosphere. The bars I’ve written listing details about are listed in bold; other bars I’ve either still to write listing details for – those links open a new window with the bar’s own website.

Listings in italics below and in (brackets) on the map are off-licenses (liquor stores).
(NS) = Smoke-free bar.
(WIFI) = Free WIFI. Not many bars have free WIFI – if you’re travelling in Japan/Tokyo and need WIFI, this site can help.

So many bars – where should you start? Check out our recommendations.
In Osaka? See the Osaka listings.
Outside Tokyo, Yokohama, and Osaka? See Japan wide listings.
Want to know what’s on tap at some of these bars? Try Boozelist.

Yamanote Line stations

• Gotanda: Grafton
• Meguro: Black Lion
• Ebisu: What The Dickens, Irishmore, Billy Barew’s Beer Bar (Takadanobaba review)
• Shibuya: The Aldgate (NS) (WIFI), Bis Cafe, Hemel, The Griffon, Amusement, Belgo, German Farm Grill, Estadio (Kamo Soccer Bar), Craftheads (NS) (WIFI), Yamaya, Tokyu Food Show
• Shinjuku: Frigo, Hazelburn, Billy Barew’s Beer Bar (Takadanobaba review), Brooklyn Parlor (WIFI), Shinanoya
• Takadanobaba: Cafe Cotton Club, Billy Barew’s Beer Bar
• Mejiro: Tanakaya
• Ikebukuro: Beer Saurus, Vivo!, Ale House, Black Sheep
• Nippori: O’Connell
• Ueno: Warrior Celt
• Kanda: Maltan, Kura Kura (NS), Billy Barew’s Beer Bar (Takadanobaba review)
• Tokyo: Bacchus, Towers Standing Bar (NS), Belgian Beer Cafe, Hasegawa (Yaesu shopping mall, North exit, Tokyo station – Not on map yet)
• Shimbashi: Dry Dock (NS), Nagano Sake

Non-Yamanote – West Tokyo

• Shimokitazawa: Ushi Tora (NS – Ushi Tora 2), Beer Rock
• Kichijoji: Bicke
• Yoyogi: Tanne
• Mejijingu-mae/Omotesando: Cafe Ano (WIFI – ask for password)
• Harajuku: Taproom (NS) (Not on map yet)
• Nakameguro: Hatos Bar, Taproom (NS) (Not on map yet)
• Senzoku: Pangaea
• Jiyugaoka: Clan, O’Carolans, Speyside Way
• Mukogaokayuen: Craft Beer Moonlight (NS)
• Musashi Kousugi: McCanns
• Machida: Copa (coupon), Trafalgar
• Kokubunji: Gambrinus (NS)
• Kamishakuji: Asaya’s Bar
• Kanamecho: Cat & Cask (NS)
• Naka-Itabashi: Riverside
• Oyama/Itabashi-Kuyakusho-mae: Oasis 5
• Ogawamachi, Saitama: Craft Beer

Non-Yamanote – East Tokyo

• Tennozu Isle: TY Harbour
• Nishi Azabu: Kimono Wine Bar (NS)
• Roppongi: Abbot’s Choice, Berndt’s, August Beer Club
• Kamiyacho: Town Cryer, Brussels (English)
• Akasaka Mitsuke: Delirium, 82 Ale House, Belgian Beer Cafe, Bois Cereste
• Iidabashi: La Cachette
• Kagurazaka: Billy Barew’s Beer Bar (Takadanobaba review)
• Toranomon: Delirium
• Hibiya: Town Cryer
• Ginza: Bulldog (partial NS), JS Lennep, Baden Baden, Belgian Beer Cafe, Ginza Brewery (Not on map yet)
• Ryogoku: Popeye (NS)
• Maihama (Tokyo Disney Resort): Harvestmoon Brewery Roti’s House

Yokohama Direction

• Yokohama:  Thrash Zone (NS), Cheers (NS), Green Sheep, Glass Dance Belgian Bar
• Sakuragicho: Yokohama Brewery & Pivovar, Pivo
• Kannai: Craft Beer Bar (NS), Rockwells (Izakaya)
• Fujisawa: Century Break
• Tsurumi: Great German Cook

The page is not meant to list every bar in Tokyo/Yokohama. Rowdy gaijin bars, meat markets, bars with rude staff, bars which have nothing more than Kirin + Guinness, etc are not included here. No bars have paid or offered any incentives to be included on this list.

Tokyo/Yokohama listings removed from BIJ

• Christon Cafe: no longer has good beer
• Cataratas: the only bar where I’ve had bad condition beer three times
• JHA Bar: rude management, and the single beer I had was also in bad condition
• Failte: dangerously undercooked food – I don’t want to send people where they could get food poisoning!