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New York Bar

altitude chic

On the 52nd floor of the Park Hyatt Tokyo, 235m up in the air, sip a cognac or glass of California wine up here and you'll feel like James Bond at large in Japan.

Park Hyatt, Nishi-Shinjuku 3-7-1
Tel +81 3 5323 3458

tokyo.park.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/entertainment/lounges/index.jsp

Agave

Tequila Bar

Agave is a slice of Mexico just off Roppongi’s main drag. Here the Tequila gods rule – there are approximately 350 brands on offer.

7-15-10 Roppongi
Tel +81 (713) 522-9393

Aquavit

Scando Cool

This stylish Scandinavian lounge bar Aquavit has siblings in both New York and Stockholm. It's sleek and clean and effortlessly hip, full of funky Austin Powers-style egg chairs and green velvet booths care of renowned Swedish designers.

Kita-Aoyama 2-5-8, Aoyama OM Square
Tel +81 03 5413 3300

www.aquavit-japan.com

Bandol

Wine Lounge

Stylish, yet unpretentious, Bandol's wine list makes for impressive reading. Vintages from France, Italy, Spain and the New World rub shoulders with an extensive cocktail menu on which you can find old favourites along with more unusual concoctions like 'Ontology' and 'Fantasy'.

2-12-16 Minami-Aoyama
Tel 0081 3 5785 3722

Radio Bar

Dazzling Drinks

Décor fuses future with past in a dimly-lit Thai-Sino setting while an antique radio in a corner lends it the name. Your bar staff are cool, tuxedo-wearing talismen, straight out of some Beat Takeshi flick, who mix drinks until late from behind the long wood counter.

2-31-7 Jingumae Shibuya-ku
Tel +81 3 405 5490

Space Shower Brunch

Modern Retro

An ultra-cool retro-modern café-bar that's the Jetsons relocated to 2002. Décor is all 1960s modernism with white-wall interior and plastic seating and tables.

Kitazawa Plaza 1F 2-14-6 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku
Tel+ 81 3 5433 2351

XEX

Plush it Up

Leafy Ginza is home to the hippest most romantic jazz bar in the Orient. Pronounced Zecks, it's an ultra-modern space, with a baby grand and majestic floor-to ceiling-windows in its main room; and an extraordinary terrace with reflecting pool, lanterns and mini-waterfall beyond.

1-11 Sarugaku-cho
Tel +81 3 3476 0065

Moda

Creative Drinking

The interior has the sultry allure of a bordello - all satin black and velvet red furnishings - while LCD screens on the walls playing images from art exhibitions, films and past nights in the bar are very Tokyo-futurism.

3-34-7 Jingumae
Tel +81 3 3403 5905

Combine

Homely Drinking

To walk into Combine is akin to walking into someone’s hip loft apartment. Cafe by day, bar by night, this venue’s most striking feature is its full wall of books. Mainly on art and design, these can be picked up and perused as you wish

1-10-23-103 Naka-Meguro, Meguro-ku
Tel +81 3 3740 3939

www.combine.jp