Dante LLC

important notice

The credit card terminal at this bar broke down September 28.
until October 15,only cash will be accepted.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

From October 16, you will still be able to pay by card, so for those of you who have made reservations after October 16, don't worry, you will still be able to pay by card.

This page has been translated by Deepl or google translate. We apologize if any of the nuances are not correct.

Forgive me if this website is a bit wordy. The reason is that what we really want to talk about when you come here is beyond our ability to speak English, so here it is.

We will eventually improve it to make it a little easier to read, so please forgive us.

Shigeru Ito, owner

It is a privately owned bar

run by my wife and I.

For my beliefs,

for the customers I love,

for the customers who love this bar.

Our reason for living is

the smiles of the people

who love this bar. 

Shigeru & Mayumi Itoh

This is music listening bar. All sound sources are analog records.

（Mainly 60's - 80's rock＆ pop music）

Enjoy alcohol while feeling a deep analog sound.

Mon. - Sat.
★Closed days 
 Every Sundays,
 Japanese national holidays.

 Saturdays are irregularly closed.

OPENING HOURS   
7:00PM - 12:00AM

Wednesdays :

 from 
October -November

7:30PM - 11:30PM
It's because my wife is off on every Wednesday.

DOOR CLOSES 
11:00 PM or 11：30 PM

We will be open on Saturdays with some exceptions as it has become a busy time of year. Regulars will also be spread out between Saturday and Friday, so there will be some seating available on Friday as well.

However, many people come after 9:30 p.m., so reservations are recommended for two or one customers who want to sit at the counter. Also, during busy times, we ask that customers with more than four people enter the bar by 9:30 a.m., as we are unable to accommodate them. In that case, it would be good if you could make a reservation. On many days, we are experiencing a phenomenon where no more than 4 customers can get in after 9:30 PM.

Please scroll to the bottom of the page for bar rules and reservation information.

Please be sure to instruct the group with the tour guide to call the tour guide before coming. There have been many cases of people arriving too late and not being able to get in because the restaurant is full. We apologize in advance if we cause you unnecessary trouble. If seats are available, we will of course accept reservations on the spot.

・・・Opening and Closing Information

The office will be temporarily closed on October 12. We are going to a concert of our favorite artist.

Saturday, October 26th is by invitation only. This is a day for regulars who don't get to hear their favorite songs to play their favorite songs.

We have already started getting reservations for November and have uploaded the calendar. If you want to be sure to enjoy the counter, reservations are recommended. 

Saturday, November 30 is by invitation only. This is a day for regulars who don't get to hear their favorite songs to play their favorite songs.

☆Caution

On rare occasions, when the number of customers is too large, we close the door at 11:00 p.m. because we do not have the energy to keep up. The reason for this is to accommodate the many customers who are at the bar at that time.

※explanation

This is a Japanese custom. The closing time is the time when this bar ends, and in order to serve you fully until the closing time, we need you to come by the time you can enter this bar, that is, the "DOOR CLOSE TIME". For this reason, we have a "DOOR CLOSE TIME".

(Some restaurants and bars have a last order time.)

・・・Information・・・

 ☆Cards are accepted for payment.

  (VISA,MASTER,AMERICAN EXPRESS,

  DISCOVER,DINERS CLUB,JCB)

 ☆All seats can be smoked.

 ☆Non-alcoholic drinks are not served.

 ☆Tipping is not required.

 ☆Cover charge 1430 yen per person.

    Charges and drink prices are the same as for       

    Japanese.

  Please see the System & Menu page in English.

   Please click here.　↓

☆Other details about this bar's rules, seating capacity, and directions are listed below.

About Reservations

Reservations are accepted from 7:00 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. entry.

However, if you have been to this bar before, you can make a reservation after 9:30p.m.entry.

Since late August, it has become crowded every day. Reservations are recommended if you want to be sure of a seat at the counter. 

Reservations can be made by sending us a message on Instagram or by e-mail.　

Alternatively, you may call the person at the hotel where you are staying to make the reservation on your behalf. We come to this bar every day at 4:30 p.m. to set up, so calls are preferred after that time.

TEL: 03-3770-0199

Please let us know how many people, what time you would like to come, and your name.

Reservations can be made for 2 people at the counter or side by side, 3 people in side by side seats, and 4 or more people in box seats.

On Fridays and Saturdays, if you want to come to this bar with a group of 4 or more people, it is better to have a reservation to be sure. More than half of the seats on Friday nights are reserved by regulars.

Note: If we do not hear from you after your reservation time, we will cancel your reservation. Many people have not come with reservations so far.

Our regulars make reservations every day, but please be assured that everyone is very calm.

We welcome people

from

all over the world.

On most days, the counter is filled with two to five regular customers. They are valued customers who doubted the world during the pandemic and came every week regardless of the pandemic. (Some of them are a little loud sometimes, but bear with us.)

But we love all of you from all over the world and welcome you every day.

We look forward to seeing you every day because you understand our love of music, our love of alcoholic beverages, and our enjoyment of this place. We have made some like minded friends all over the world. We have people who have come to Japan many times to visit our bar.

We have learned so much from your actions and atmosphere, and we thank you every day.

(Perhaps this is influenced by my experience of living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA as a child due to my father's work.)

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However, there are those who do not welcome them.

Presumably all of them are people under 25 years old, but we do not welcome people who do not know how to spend time in a bar or who do not have the minimum of good manners.

This is the result of having welcomed all customers for the past year. For example, these are the people who. Noisy groups are out of the question, but they stay so long time in front of an empty glass, they keep looking at their favourite websites on their smartphones instead of enjoying the music, they lie down on the sofas, they persistently ask for requests before anything else (this is a place to drink alcohol, and requests are a service), When they realise that their favourite songs are not available in the bar, they instantly become grumpy and try to listen to them on their smartphones, make loud videophone calls, try to get away with drinking... These are real examples. It is not a matter of which country.

In the past year, many Japanese 20-somethings have done exactly that, so now Japanese 20-somethings refuse to come to this bar.

If in the future too many young people cannot behave themselves, we will have to stop allowing more than two people under the age of 25 to enter.

However, I don't think such people are looking at this page.

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☆Rules when entering this bar.

Our bar is not a dance club. 

This is a bar that you enjoy drinking and listen to music at the table.

We are sorry, for example, moving to various seats, wandering around and doing dancing is another inconvenience for other customers, please stop.

Please refrain from talking loudly (for other customers).

Please be considerate of other customers.

(Except party day, it is okay to standing and moving.)

Also, because it is a bar that enjoys music, it is prohibited to sound the smartphone as it becomes troublesome to other customers.

However, of course, it is possible to cheer when one's favorite song is played. We are very happy when you are happy!

☆About Music Requests

After serving drinks, the owner will bring a piece of paper and a pen and you can write down your request if you want.

There is only one reason why we take requests. Because we want you to enjoy yourself even more. It is our couple's living purpose to see the happy customers who are there that day. And since you have come all the way to Japan, we want you to enjoy yourself even more from the bottom of our hearts.

I tries to connect the requested songs, artists, and genres as naturally as possible from the genres, sounds and artists currently playing. Of course, if I'm truly pleased, I will continue with the same genre of music for a while, for example, wonderful soul music from the 60s. (I've listed below what genres of music are available)

Then, based on the request, I will choose a song that I think the person might like, and connect it to the next person's request. It is my pleasure if the guests are pleased with the music and if it leads to the discovery of new music.

The other day, a customer from England gave me a very wonderful and happy review. He said that he had enjoyed his "musical journey". This is exactly what I have been trying to do since I started this bar.

I want people to enjoy a variety of music in this bar, not just the songs they request. Every day, I try to choose music that I think the current customers would like. I try to choose songs that I think the current customers would like.

Many Japanese regulars come here every day, and they come here to enjoy the music playing that day, talking with us, and drinking at this place. And I look forward to hearing what develops today, depending on the requests of those who come from overseas for business or pleasure.

There are 9 seats of counter,
 box 6 seats,
 bench ４seats, 
 and 2 stools.

[Basically, the counter is for 
up to two people.]

All seats can be smoked.

It is all record sound source.

Please see the linked site for examples of collection artists. Genres are divided like a Japanese record shop for arrangement.

Here are some of the records in my bar collection.

☆In order to pursue better sound with the equipment we have available, we are particular about the vinyl records themselves. The best sounding records are basically those that were released in the same country and at the same time. In addition, the promotional vinyl, serial number, engineer, and other factors also affect the sound. We have a selection of such records for your enjoyment.

☆You can listen to precious original records from the 50s to the 70s that were acquired over the years in search of better sound, promotional records from the 70s with great sound, roaring single recordings with high sound pressure, etc. If you would like to listen to these records, please feel free to request them anytime.

Other British and American 60's to 70's rock (major group, funky rock, swamp, soft rock, pub rock, MERSY BEAT,

MODS SOUND etc.), many 80's hits, punk and after punk , neo acoustic. We also have a wide variety of music from the 80's, 80's indies, 60's-80's movie music and soundtracks, 60's soul, etc. (We also have a little bit of 90's music as well). (We also have a little bit of 90's music, mainly from the UK.)

Recently, we have started to have a collection of music from the 90's onward. I am not particular about the price, as there is not much difference between the original and reissued sound in this age group. 

Owner

Shigeru Ito

※I have in my possession records mainly from the 60's to the 80's. In all, I have about 3,500 LP records and 2,500 single records.

In broad genres.

British and American rock, pop, and singles from the 60s to the 80s, about 2500 on LP, some major and some not so famous.

There are also about 150 LPs of British rock and acid jazz from the 90s, 100 LPs of soul music from the 60s, 100 LPs of soul and dance music from the 70s, 50 LPs of jazz funk, 50 LPs of the kind of jazz that British mods loved in the 60s, and 50 LPs of major modern jazz. about 50 pieces of major modern jazz, and about 200 pieces of movie soundtracks from the 60s to the 80s. That's roughly about it. The same ratio applies to single records.

There are about 200 Japanese rock &pop albums, but almost no Japanese CITY POP.

My instagram
New arrivals, recent favorites, and past masterpieces are featured. Sometimes you'll see images of our cats, though.

We made a graph comparing AROMA and PALATE of Japanese whiskey with us and other bartenders. Since the graph is our private one, we disclose it only to visitors to this bar. The numbers written next to the whiskeys are marked on the graph.

Please see the English menu page of the link.

Two Nikka pure malt products are no longer in stock.