Tokyo Gig Guide

Each route is a real day or weekend: where to go first, how long the walk or the train takes, what the ticket costs and where to eat on the way. Every price names who published it (the operator, the place itself, or the magazine or guide that printed it) and the date; where nobody printed a price, the route says so instead of guessing. Where a stop closes on set days, the route says what to do instead.

Around the routes sits the week in Japan. Every few hours the site reads the Japanese city and food press and the English-language desks in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Fukuoka, and puts the places they name on one map. Headlines stay in the language they were written in, every story links to its source, and we quote no more than a line.

The routes and notes are written by one editor under a pen name, Sora Nakamura, drafted with AI assistance from checked material and read before they go out. Day by Day Japan is independent: no advertisers, no affiliate links, no bookings.

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Tokyo Gig Guide

Tokyo Gig GuideListen川野夏美＆三丘翔太, 山岡秀明

Tokyo Gig GuideListenTRATRA 『 I'z 』 MELT THE BULLET テディアンドロイドレミニセンスパレード OWL, ANTHEM #アクタ〜 KNIGHT of ROUND'z 〜双極スペクトラム ΣVOL シハイノコドモバトラブ！ Lovely Trip VINANSHI

Tokyo Gig GuideListena new little one (スガダイロー細井徳太郎秋元修)

Tokyo Gig GuideListen細井徳太郎坂田明大儀見海

Tokyo Gig GuideListenJunichiro Okuchi SP Session / Junichiro Okuchi(p), Masayo Koketsu(as), Noboru Ando(b), Kanae Konuma(ds)

Tokyo Gig GuideListenGisela Horat (from Switzerland) Solo

Tokyo Gig GuideListenLoui Yoshigaki (ヨシガキルイ), Atsuko Hatano (波多野敦子)

Tokyo Gig GuideListenHano Shoji (dr), tabata mitsuru (g), Mad sax (sax from fukui)

Tokyo Gig GuideListenRockey The Ramone, Nasty Boys, NA/DA, YATARA Venus, Sister Paul

Tokyo Gig GuideListenつばめがみ (TSUBAMEGAMI): Kawasaki Satoru (t.sax), Ashida Nobuhiro (b), Miura Maki (g), guest Sato Tomohiko (ds)

Tokyo Gig GuideListenTomas Korber, Christian Kobi, Taku Sugimoto

Tokyo Gig GuideListenTenko [voice], Nakamura rube [sax], Kentaro Nakao [bass]

Tokyo Gig GuideListenDISHxRAG, EXFAGO (HELL), Lifeblood, obsidian

Tokyo Gig GuideListenADIRONDACK CAFE JAM SESSION

Tokyo Gig GuideListenOpen Jam Session

Tokyo Gig GuideListenOpen Jam Session

Tokyo Gig GuideListenTomo Kawasaki x Nobuhiro Ashida, Goizon x Abashiri, Aho-bune

Tokyo Gig GuideListenParis death Hilton, Keiji Haino + Yoshimitsu Ichiraku, INCAPACITANTS, RUINS

Tokyo Gig GuideListen室田夏海, 由薫

Tokyo Gig GuideListenラパンナジール (LAPIN AGILE), ADAM-SITES, NIGHT†RAID, THE 3rd GENERATION, 天井裏のザムザ, XTEEN

Tokyo Gig GuideListenBeast Machine (Australia), Chikara the Boy, OVER THE HELL, Tokyo Contrabandits, DJ BroKanFingaz

Tokyo Gig GuideListenSun-Mi Hong (drums), Yoshihide Otomo (guitar)

Tokyo Gig GuideListenLeo Sharsy, NELVIOWL, MOMN, Sleepless Endorphine, GORILLA SNOC, DaLiL Black

Tokyo Gig GuideListenovEnola, ulma sound junction, nervous light of sunday

Tokyo Gig Guide

Tokyo Gig GuideListen川野夏美＆三丘翔太, 山岡秀明

Tokyo Gig GuideListenTRATRA 『 I'z 』 MELT THE BULLET テディアンドロイド レミニセンスパレード OWL, ANTHEM #アクタ 〜 KNIGHT of ROUND'z 〜 双極スペクトラム ΣVOL シハイノコドモ バトラブ！ Lovely Trip VINANSHI

Tokyo Gig GuideListena new little one (スガダイロー 細井徳太郎 秋元修)

Tokyo Gig GuideListen細井徳太郎 坂田明 大儀見海

Tokyo Gig GuideListenJunichiro Okuchi SP Session / Junichiro Okuchi(p), Masayo Koketsu(as), Noboru Ando(b), Kanae Konuma(ds)

Tokyo Gig GuideListenGisela Horat (from Switzerland) Solo

Tokyo Gig GuideListenLoui Yoshigaki (ヨシガキルイ), Atsuko Hatano (波多野敦子)

Tokyo Gig GuideListenHano Shoji (dr), tabata mitsuru (g), Mad sax (sax from fukui)

Tokyo Gig GuideListenRockey The Ramone, Nasty Boys, NA/DA, YATARA Venus, Sister Paul

Tokyo Gig GuideListenつばめがみ (TSUBAMEGAMI): Kawasaki Satoru (t.sax), Ashida Nobuhiro (b), Miura Maki (g), guest Sato Tomohiko (ds)

Tokyo Gig GuideListenTomas Korber, Christian Kobi, Taku Sugimoto

Tokyo Gig GuideListenTenko [voice], Nakamura rube [sax], Kentaro Nakao [bass]

Tokyo Gig GuideListenDISHxRAG, EXFAGO (HELL), Lifeblood, obsidian

Tokyo Gig GuideListenADIRONDACK CAFE JAM SESSION

Tokyo Gig GuideListenOpen Jam Session

Tokyo Gig GuideListenOpen Jam Session

Tokyo Gig GuideListenTomo Kawasaki x Nobuhiro Ashida, Goizon x Abashiri, Aho-bune

Tokyo Gig GuideListenParis death Hilton, Keiji Haino + Yoshimitsu Ichiraku, INCAPACITANTS, RUINS

Tokyo Gig GuideListen室田夏海, 由薫

Tokyo Gig GuideListenラパンナジール (LAPIN AGILE), ADAM-SITES, NIGHT†RAID, THE 3rd GENERATION, 天井裏のザムザ, XTEEN

Tokyo Gig GuideListenBeast Machine (Australia), Chikara the Boy, OVER THE HELL, Tokyo Contrabandits, DJ BroKanFingaz

Tokyo Gig GuideListenSun-Mi Hong (drums), Yoshihide Otomo (guitar)

Tokyo Gig GuideListenLeo Sharsy, NELVIOWL, MOMN, Sleepless Endorphine, GORILLA SNOC, DaLiL Black

Tokyo Gig GuideListenovEnola, ulma sound junction, nervous light of sunday

Tokyo Gig GuideListenTRATRA 『 I'z 』 MELT THE BULLET テディアンドロイドレミニセンスパレード OWL, ANTHEM #アクタ〜 KNIGHT of ROUND'z 〜双極スペクトラム ΣVOL シハイノコドモバトラブ！ Lovely Trip VINANSHI

Tokyo Gig GuideListena new little one (スガダイロー細井徳太郎秋元修)

Tokyo Gig GuideListen細井徳太郎坂田明大儀見海