Lamp Bar
Nara, Japan
ASIA'S50 BEST2026ASIA'S50 BEST2025ASIA'S50 BEST2024
No. 20 on Asia's 50 Best Bars 2022. Asia's 50 Best Bars: No. 46 (2025), No. 23 (2023); No. 94 (2026), No. 55 (2024) and No. 62 (2021) on the 51-100 list.
Founded by Michito Kaneko, who won the Diageo Reserve World Class global bartender competition in 2015. The ground-floor room in the Iseya Building holds an extensive back bar and a replica copper pot still, and the bar works without a printed menu, building drinks to each guest's preferences and drawing on Japanese and regional ingredients.
