Bar Benfiddich

Tokyo, Japan

No. 18 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2025 and No. 62 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2026.

Hiroyasu Kayama grows his own botanicals on a farm in Tokigawa, Saitama and carries them into a ninth-floor Shinjuku bar where every cocktail begins with produce he harvested personally. Kayama crushes spices by hand in a brass mortar at the bar, distils ingredients in-house, and builds drinks that taste of specific seasons in specific Japanese soil. No other bar program on earth is this directly connected to the land.