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Tokyo's definitive rooftop is technically indoors: the New York Bar on the Park Hyatt's 52nd floor, of Lost in Translation fame, where a live jazz band soundtracks the endless circuitry below.
- Best forNightlife
- Approx. flying time~11h 05m from Los Angeles
- Nearest airportTokyo (HND)
Tokyo, Japan
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Why go
Tokyo bartending is a craft tradition: in Ginza's hushed second-floor rooms, a single perfect highball involves hand-carved ice and total silence, and the seat charge is the price of watching a master work. For the opposite energy, Shinjuku's Golden Gai crams two hundred shoebox bars into six alleys — pick one with space at its four or five stools and settle in. Carry cash; many of the best rooms take nothing else.
Featured in Ten rooftop-bar cities for golden-hour drinks and Ten cocktail cities for a very grown-up bar crawl
When to go
Daytime highs run from about 9°C in January to 31°C in August. Driest in December; wettest in July, with rain on about 15 days.
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August31° · rain 11 daysHot with rain most weeks.
Monthly figures averaged from daily records for 2020–2024 at this location (ERA5 reanalysis). Live conditions from MET Norway, CC BY 4.0.
Where to stay
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Flights
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