Bubbles & Bites
The Lobby at The Peninsula Tokyo
The happy hour
| Every day | 5–7 PM |
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Drinks
- Bubbles & Bites with a glass of Perrier-Jouët —
- Bubbles & Bites with 90-minute free-flow drinks —
Food
- Nine savory bites and three sweets, included
Prices usually include 10% consumption tax. Hotel bars often include a 10–15% service charge as well; when a venue adds it on top, the deal note says so.
US dollar amounts are a mid-market estimate as of 2026-10-28, not the venue's price. The venue charges yen.
Prices include consumption tax and an 18% service charge. The menu changes with the season. The free-flow is 90 minutes.
Deal last verified 2026-10-28. Confirmed on the venue’s own website.
Worth knowing in Tokyo
Tokyo’s happy hour is a hotel-bar hour. The izakaya next door is inexpensive all night, and that is a different thing.
The rule
Japan allows a posted drink discount. There is no statutory happy-hour clock. You must be 20. Consumption tax is usually inside the menu price. A hotel often adds 10–15% service, or includes it and says so. See the Japan page for the street-drinking limit around Shibuya Station and for why an all-you-can-drink set is not a per-glass deal.
The custom
The windows cluster from mid-afternoon to about 8, before dinner seatings and before some bars add a cover. Ginza, Yurakucho, and Marunouchi are the after-work walk. Roppongi and Akasaka are the hotel version. Shibuya’s published hour is up a tower, not on the crossing. Shinagawa’s is the JW Marriott bar at Takanawa. Ueno’s is a hotel bistro in the afternoon. A ¥777 sign in Ginza and a ¥1,320 cocktail in Roppongi are both real, and only one of them has already folded the service charge into the number.
Using the Atlas here
Every Tokyo card in this first wave was read on the venue’s own site in October 2026. If the note says service is extra, add it. If the offer is “30% off” or “three drinks and a snack for ¥2,000,” that is the deal, not a single cocktail at that price. Neighborhood izakaya without a clock are not missing by accident.
Across Japan
Japan does not ban a happy hour, and most of the country does not use the word. In Tokyo the posted window lives in hotel bars. The izakaya around the corner has a price, not a clock.
The vibe
The Peninsula’s lobby at Yurakucho, serving an ongoing early-evening high tea with champagne instead of a per-glass discount.
Getting there
1-8-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0006 · +81 3 6270 2888