Tokyo is a city filled with tiny spaces, so it’s not unusual for bars or restaurants to have room for a dozen patrons or fewer. But Hitori, a bar in the chic Shinjuku district, stands out from the ...

With the opening of new Japanese-style bar 5Tesseract, chef Billy Kin put in the same hands-on attention to detail he’s known for at his omakase counter 5Kinokawa. Kin built the two walnut tables that ...

It’s one of the hottest new trends in Japan: Bars without booze. Raising glasses of non-alcoholic wine, millennial customers say they do enjoy the real thing, but only on special occasions. “I’m not ...