Dante LLC

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 :

7:30PM - 11:30PM

My wife is off on Wednesdays and the staffs comes at 7:30.

DOOR CLOSES 
11:00 PM

We are not young. Thankfully every day is very crowded and many days are beyond our physical capacity. So, in order to keep this bar going for a long time, we will not welcome any new customers after 11 pm and will do our best to take care of those who are still here at that time. That's why we close the door after 11pm.

・・・Opening and Closing Information

December takes a holiday on Saturday 7 December.

December 24th is Christmas Eve, but we will have dj time for a few regulars to play records. The theme is Japanese music. We hope you will enjoy Japanese music of various ages. Just nothing that sounds like city pop.

In between the DJ's, I will set up a request time and play the songs that the guests like. It doesn't have to be limited to Japanese music.

We will be closed for the New Year's holiday from Sunday 29 December until 2 January. We also want to do some cleaning in this bar.

Every year at the end of the year and the beginning of the New Year is very busy, so reservations are essential. Especially on 27 December, and on 3 and 4 January 2025, this bar is considerably crowded from opening to closing every year.

The New Year in January will begin on the 3rd.

The office will be closed on January 21 and 28 for cataract surgery. Since I will have to go to the ophthalmologist every day and there will be some damage, I will shorten my business hours from January 20 to 31.

Well, it is proof that I am getting older, and I intend to spend my days in 2025 in a reasonable style.

…Information…

 ☆Cards are accepted for payment.

  only: 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 available from 19:00 to 21:00.

As it is not a large bar, reservations are recommended if you want to be sure of a seat at the counter.

The counter has a total of 9 seats, 1 side-by-side seat, and 1 box seat (seats up to 6 people).

Reservations can be made via Instagram message or email.　

You can also call the person at the hotel you are staying at to make a reservation on your behalf; at 16:30 I am at this bar every day.

tel: 03-3770-0199

To make a reservation, please inform the following.

-Number of people

-Date & Time

-Names.

Counter for 1 or 2 persons, side-by-side seating for 3 persons and box seating for 4 to 6 persons are available.

If you are coming to this bar with more than 4 persons, it is better to make a reservation.

Notes.

★IMPORTANT ・・・・・・・・
January 20-31,due to cataract surgeries, we will be open shorter hours. Right now, my right eye is blurry and I can hardly see.

We will be closed on January 21 and 28 due to the surgery.

Also, we may close temporarily after the surgery depending on the progress of the surgery, so we will not be accepting reservations.

Customers who already have reservations will be accepted as is. If we have to close temporarily, we will send a message to those who have made reservations the day before.

December 19th Shigeru Itoh

(1) If you are going to be late for your reservation, please make sure to contact us by message or email before the reservation time.

(2) If you are booking from Instagram, please mention in your message that you saw our website.

This is because many people who book directly from Instagram (especially those in their 20s) do not show up on the same day. The people who read the website and make a booking are all caring people, regardless of age, so you can be assured of a good place.

⑶ Repeaters and regulars who have been to this bar before can book to come in after 21:30.

The reason is because of the trust they have with us.

Regulars make reservations every day, but rest assured that everyone is very relaxed.

☆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.

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

★Here's a heads-up, especially for customers in their early twenties

1)It is a bar that enjoys music, it is prohibited to sound the smartphone as it becomes troublesome to other customers.

2)The cover charge is not an entrance fee.

We especially want you to be aware if you are in your early twenties and don't know the rules and etiquette of how to spend time in a bar.

So it is not a charge to get in and stay for a long time with one drink, like in a dance club .

Currently, we do not allow Japanese people in their twenties who are new to the program to enter the restaurant, as there have been too many people who have not understood the concept over the past year.

Just think of the cover charge as a service charge.

So as part of the service, we accept song requests.

However, the Japanese do not accept song requests except from regulars, except when there are few

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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☆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.