Gen Yamamoto
Anniversary Building 1F, 1-6-4 Azabu-Juban, Minato, Tokyo 106-0045
Gen Yamamoto asks guests to approach cocktails as a sequence. Selected fruit, vegetables and spirits form an omakase tasting that changes with the seasons, making the ingredient, rather than a familiar branded recipe, the main subject. His official description explicitly centres shiki, the Japanese sense of seasonality, and the current site lists autumn produce from named prefectures. The eight-seat scale matters. It concentrates attention on the glass and the preparation behind it, giving this bar a different kind of exclusivity from a grand hotel lounge. Independent coverage in The 50 Discovery identifies the tasting format and the unusually intimate setting. Our selection favours the coherence of that experience: a visitor can understand its purpose without needing a sprawling menu or an elaborate room. Choose between the currently published five-, six- and seven-cocktail sequences, while allowing the actual ingredients to change. Book directly by telephone seven days ahead; the website gives calling windows before and after service. Sunday and Monday are closed, and the last reservation is at 21:00. The accompanying photograph is a credited archival drink image from 2020, not a promise that the same serve remains available.