Strings jazz club, located near Kichijoji station in Tokyo, Japan (website, map).
Strings is a friendly jazz bar in Kichijoji, a popular neighborhood just east of Tokyo’s main center known for its beautiful park, shopping, dining, and rich cultural lifestyle. Kichijoji, besides being an attractive neighborhood in its own right, also hosts the popular and well-known jazz club Sometime, a frequent destination for new and old jazz fans alike. Yet Strings, located a bit off the beaten path, offers its own style and charm for jazz lovers.
Strings, a Live Bar & Italian Restaurant, as noted on their homepage, serves up quality jazz and Italian food with simple, easygoing grace. This bar is modestly tiny with several seats directly up against the grand piano and a few tables and bar seats around the rest of the room.
Although the room seems small, the talented artists who play here are top-notch. Sometimes, this bar can be completely full with preset reservations (or even nearly empty at other unfortunate times). But, when the jazz is cooking, the pizza comes out piping hot, and the decanter of wine arrives, it is a perfect way to spend an evening listening to real handcrafted jazz music in Tokyo.
In addition to jazz, Brazilian music, and stringed instruments including violin are also often featured.
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