Dance clubs, live music, rooftop bars, speakeasies, LGBTQ+ venues, listening bars and late-night dives in Hiroshima.
Dance clubs, live music, rooftop bars, speakeasies, LGBTQ+ nightlife, listening bars and late-night dives across Hiroshima, with where to go and what is worth the late night.
Bar Alegre splits a third-floor Horikawa-cho room in Hiroshima between a tea-house entrance and a back bar modelled on a 1920s speakeasy.
Signature drink: Seasonal fruit cocktails
Tip: There are two doors: a tea-room entrance cut so low that everyone bows to get in, and a hidden speakeasy door beside it.
Helen works a speakeasy-styled hideaway in Komachi, the Hiroshima room that pours Yamazaki and Hakushu once the cafe service ends at 18:00.
Signature drink: Japanese whisky flight
Tip: Same door, two businesses: desserts and coffee until 18:00, whisky and cocktails until 23:30.
80s Bar Kayokyoku Hit Studio takes requests from roughly 3,000 singles and LPs, a Nagarekawa room in Hiroshima built entirely on Showa pop.
Signature drink: All-you-can-drink sets
Tip: Records are played with the original video footage, and the room can be booked out for parties of twenty or more.
American Pub Ace on Yagenbori is the Hiroshima room that stays open to 05:00 with burgers, darts, billiards and a poker table in the back.
Signature drink: Bottled beer
Tip: Sundays and public holidays close at 02:00, three hours earlier than the rest of the week.
Bambino spreads a teppan dining bar over two Mikawa-cho floors in Hiroshima, cooking omurice up to the 04:00 kitchen close every night of the week.
Signature drink: Highballs
Tip: Simulation golf, darts and karaoke share the upper floor, so it works better for a group than a quiet drink.