Must-see entertainment in Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

  • Shinjuku Pit Inn

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    This is Tokyo's best jazz spot: intimate, unpretentious and with an always solid line-up of influential, avant-garde, crossover and up-and-coming…

  • Posters outside the New National Theatre, Shinjuku & Ikebukuro

    New National Theatre

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    This is Tokyo’s premier public performing-arts centre, with state-of-the-art stages for drama, opera and dance. The plays are in Japanese and the operas…

  • Robot Restaurant

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    This Kabukichō spectacle has hit it big with its vision of 'wacky Japan': bikini-clad women ride around on giant robots against a backdrop of animated…

  • Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    This beautiful, oak-panelled, A-frame concert hall, with legendary acoustics, hosts the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra among other well-regarded ensembles…

  • Suehirotei

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    This is one of the very few remaining yose (vaudeville) theatres in Tokyo. Shows feature over a dozen acts, many of which are rakugo (comedic monologue)…

  • Jazz Spot Intro

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    This little club – which gives away a quarter of its floor space to a grand piano – is a gathering spot for local musicians who come for the nearly…

  • Loft

    Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo

    The chequerboard stage here has hosted the feedback and reverb of countless Tokyo indie and punk bands over the (four-plus!) decades since Loft got its…