"More than this - there is nothing
More than this - tell me one thing
More than this - there is nothing" Roxy Music - More than thisI finally had the chance to visit one of the most famous bars in Tokyo: the New York Bar, located on top of the highest tower (out of 3) belonging to the Park Hyatt Hotel in western Shinjuku. This bar in particular instantly became famous when some scenes of Sophia Ford Coppola's outstanding movie "Lost in Translation" was filmed in this bar. If memory serves me correctly, Bill Murray who played an American actor who came to Tokyo in order to take part in a filming for a commercial TV-ad, had his first encounter with the female protagonist, played by Scarlett Johannsson, on an evening in precisely this bar.
After visiting the famous Omoide-Yokocho 思いで横丁, a small area where yakitori shops are lined in very narrow streets, having some fun at the local Don-Kichote (guess who is hiding behind the Jack Skellington masks), a good-for everything drugstore, an hour karaoke-fun, a drunken salaryman in front of a convinience store and a long walk from the station we arrived at the Park Hyatt Hotel.
The New York Bar is situated inside one of the three glass pyramids on top of the highest of three towers. It's really hard to describe ore even try to give a verbal description about this place of luxuriory calmness. The pictures we took from inside the bar and the stunning view of Tokyo by night are self-explanatory.
I can recommend everybody to go there if one has time. The NYBar is on the 52nd floor. From the lobby you have to go up until the 47th floor where there is another bar. To the right leads a not-so-long floor to the other to elevators who willbring you directly to the top. By coming earlier than 9 o'clock and later than half past eleven, you also don't have to pay any cover charge (a fact that saves you 2000yen!) but then you won't have live-music though. However, going there without the music is a good bargain and the prices for beer are reasonable (1100yen for Kirin, Sapporo, Asahi. Suntory Malts). And the change looks and feels like it was just printed. :)
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More than this - tell me one thing
More than this - there is nothing" Roxy Music - More than thisI finally had the chance to visit one of the most famous bars in Tokyo: the New York Bar, located on top of the highest tower (out of 3) belonging to the Park Hyatt Hotel in western Shinjuku. This bar in particular instantly became famous when some scenes of Sophia Ford Coppola's outstanding movie "Lost in Translation" was filmed in this bar. If memory serves me correctly, Bill Murray who played an American actor who came to Tokyo in order to take part in a filming for a commercial TV-ad, had his first encounter with the female protagonist, played by Scarlett Johannsson, on an evening in precisely this bar.
After visiting the famous Omoide-Yokocho 思いで横丁, a small area where yakitori shops are lined in very narrow streets, having some fun at the local Don-Kichote (guess who is hiding behind the Jack Skellington masks), a good-for everything drugstore, an hour karaoke-fun, a drunken salaryman in front of a convinience store and a long walk from the station we arrived at the Park Hyatt Hotel.
"View on western Shinjuku as seen from the New York Bar (Park Hyatt Tokyo)"
(picture contributed by jo)
The New York Bar is situated inside one of the three glass pyramids on top of the highest of three towers. It's really hard to describe ore even try to give a verbal description about this place of luxuriory calmness. The pictures we took from inside the bar and the stunning view of Tokyo by night are self-explanatory.
I can recommend everybody to go there if one has time. The NYBar is on the 52nd floor. From the lobby you have to go up until the 47th floor where there is another bar. To the right leads a not-so-long floor to the other to elevators who willbring you directly to the top. By coming earlier than 9 o'clock and later than half past eleven, you also don't have to pay any cover charge (a fact that saves you 2000yen!) but then you won't have live-music though. However, going there without the music is a good bargain and the prices for beer are reasonable (1100yen for Kirin, Sapporo, Asahi. Suntory Malts). And the change looks and feels like it was just printed. :)
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