The Best Cocktail Bars in Osaka
Osaka has 5 cocktail bars in the BarMagazine directory, and Bar Nayuta leads the pack. This guide covers the cocktail bars specifically; the full Osaka picture, all 5 bars of it, lives on the city page. Each listing is verified, with the address, opening hours and what to order.
- Bar NayutaCocktail Bar
Bar Nayuta
Bar Nayuta works in tribute to the golden age of cocktail making, when bartenders compounded their own ingredients, so it makes its own infusions, bitters and liqueurs and rebuilds the classics in its own idiom. The bar sits on the fifth floor of the Mario Building in Nishi-Shinsaibashi, marked by an occult-looking symbol at the entrance, and bottles its own cocktail bitters.
中央区西心斎橋1-6-17, OsakaDaily 17:00-03:00Full profile - CraftroomCocktail Bar
Craftroom
Craftroom is a six-seat counter bar in the basement of the Osaka Ekimae Daiichi Building in Umeda, behind a concealed entrance. It serves premium cocktails and whisky in an elegant room, with seasonal pies alongside the drinks.
Osaka Ekimae Daiichi Building B2-70, 1-3-1 Umeda, Kita Ward, OsakaSun closed; Mon-Sat 16:00-00:00Full profile - Bible Club OsakaCocktail Bar
Bible Club Osaka
Bible Club Osaka is a basement cocktail bar on Shinsaibashisuji that sets out to recreate a pre-Prohibition American room down to the detail, from the antique crystal drinkware to the fittings, so that a guest stepping in is meant to land somewhere between the 1800s and the turn of the century. The bar builds its cocktails from the freshest ingredients and the finest spirits it can get, and garnishes them to the same standard. It seats thirty eight, charges eight hundred yen a head, and takes its last order at half past midnight. It is the sister bar of the Bible Club in Portland, Oregon, the Prohibition-era room that gave it its name and which this directory also lists.
B1F, 2-1-11 Shinsaibashisuji, Chuo-ku, OsakaThu-Tue 18:00-01:00; Wed closedFull profile - Ista Coffee ElementsCocktail Bar
Ista Coffee Elements
Ista Coffee Elements is an eight-seat room near Sakaisuji-Hommachi station in the business district of central Osaka, where everything turns on coffee. Owner and bartender Fumiaki Nozato is a world coffee cocktail champion, and the beans are roasted in house on a micro-roaster tucked away at the end of the narrow bar before they become the base of the drinks. It works as a coffee shop pulling espresso and as a cocktail bar with one of the most cohesive lists in the city. The Maillard Banana Shake builds on banana, rum, milk, chocolate and espresso; the Element, a competition winner, sets coffee against brandy, rose, raspberry, cream and Campari. A section called Coffee Tree Cocktails reaches past the bean to the cherries, the flowers and the leaves.
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Hotel BarCanes & Tales
Canes & Tales is a destination cocktail bar at the Waldorf Astoria Osaka - a glamorous escape into a bygone era, inspired by the 1930s Golden Age of Jazz and the bars of that time, evoking a world of intriguing timeless narratives. In contrast to the rest of the bright and airy aesthetics of the property, the intimate 47-seat bar is tucked behind an alluring dark green door at the end of a dimly-lit corridor subtly embellished with the bar’s signature Canes & Tales iconography.
5-54 Ofukacho, KitaFull profile
More of Osaka
These are the cocktail bars specifically. The full Osaka guide ranks the best bars of every style, and the directory lists all 5 with a map and filters.
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