11 wine bar rooms in Tokyo we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Tokyo | Wine Bar across every city.
Tokyo has built a serious natural-wine culture, concentrated in the small streets west of the centre. Ahiru Store in Tomigaya is sommelier Teruhiko Saito's natural-wine counter, a 12-seat room that queues from opening, while Winestand Waltz in Ebisu-Nishi is the standing-counter cellar bar that helped set the city's natural-wine ritual with 30 pours by the glass. Bistro Rojiura in Sangenjaya pours natural Beaujolais and Loire alongside its bistro plates.
Ahiru Store ★ 4.7
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0063, Japan
Ahiru Store in Tokyo's Tomigaya is sommelier Teruhiko Saito's natural-wine counter, sister Wakako's bread on the side. The 12-seat room queues from 18:00.
Wineshop Flow ★ 4.5
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0066, Japan
Wineshop Flow in Tokyo's Hatagaya is a cellar-bar behind the station, blond timber with a porthole-shaped cellar door. Natural wines and natural sake.
Shibuya Cheese Stand ★ 4.3
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0047, Japan
Shibuya Cheese Stand in Tokyo's Okushibu makes mozzarella and burrata on-site each morning and pours Italian wines to match. The wine flight is the order.
Fuglen Tokyo (evenings) ★ 4.4
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0063, Japan
Fuglen Tokyo in Tokyo's Tomigaya flips at 19:00 from Norwegian cafe to natural wine and cocktail bar. The vintage Scandinavian furniture stays the same.
Senrogiwa ★ 4.4
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0022, Japan
Senrogiwa in Tokyo's Ebisu-Minami is an izakaya-DJ-bar hybrid above the tracks near Garden Place. Natural wines, yakiton skewers, 90s vinyl on the decks.
Winestand Waltz ★ 4.7
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0021, Japan
Winestand Waltz in Tokyo's Ebisu-Nishi is the cellar-bar that built Tokyo's natural-wine ritual. Standing-counter only, 30 by-the-glass pours, no reservation.
Apero Wine Bar Aoyama ★ 4.4
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062, Japan
Apero in Aoyama in Tokyo is the Dupeperier family wine bar opened 2014, natural French selection shortlisted by Simon Bianco, family-recipe bistro plates.
Le Cabaret Vin ★ 4.4
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0053, Japan
Le Cabaret Vin in Tokyo's Yoyogi is sommelier-couple Suzuki's natural-wine bar near Shinjuku. Twenty by-the-glass pours, candle-lit standing-and-sitting room.
Bistro Rojiura ★ 4.4
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 154-0024, Japan
Bistro Rojiura in Tokyo's Sangenjaya is the back-alley wine bar pouring natural Beaujolais and Loire. Long communal counter and Japanese-French bistro plates.
Ahiru Store ★ 4.7
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0063, Japan
Ahiru Store in Tokyo: 12-seat natural-wine counter in Tomigaya, no reservations after 18:30 and a queue that turns away most weekend visitors.
Winestand Waltz ★ 4.7
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0021, Japan
Winestand Waltz is cellar standing-bar in ebisu-nishi with 30 by-the-glass pours and a walk-in-only counter that turns into a queue by 19:00.