Tokyo After Dark

Tokyo · 3–4 hours · evening

Three of the most considered cocktail rooms in Minato — a concept bar in Azabujuban, a cacao cocktail bar on the third floor of Toranomon Hills, and the city spread out fifty-one floors below you to end the evening.

The route

1. Tokyo Confidential
Azabujuban, Minato
Start here. A concept-driven cocktail bar in Azabujuban that changes its menu around a single theme each season — past editions have covered everything from Japanese folklore to specific flavour systems. Read the menu before you order. Walk to Toranomon Hills takes about twenty minutes and is worth doing on foot.
20 min walk to the next stop
2. memento mori
Toranomon, Minato
A cacao cocktail bar on the third floor of Toranomon Hills, specialising in drinks built around chocolate and cacao in forms most cocktail menus do not attempt. The room is dark, unhurried, and worth two drinks before you take the elevator upstairs.
5 min walk to the next stop
3. Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills, By Hyatt
Toranomon, Minato
Fifty-one floors above the city in the same Toranomon Hills complex. The view does the heavy lifting here, and the cocktails are good enough that you do not feel it is just a view bar. End the evening here and stay until the lights settle in below you.