Discover the best record stores and listening bars in Yokohama

Wax Journal lists one place in Yokohama so far: Downbeat, a listening bar and hi-fi café. Every place was chosen by hand, and each page has its opening hours and address. If you know another door in Yokohama worth opening, send it to us.

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  1. Downbeat
    No. 01

    Downbeat

    Yokohama, Japan

    Bar, Café

    Closed · Opens tomorrow at 16:00

    Downbeat has played jazz in Yokohama since 1956. In its first years American servicemen from the base at Honmoku came by to play, and the nights ran late. The records still come through a pair of Altec A7s, speakers that were designed for cinemas. Oil paintings of Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis by Kozo Kubo hang on the walls, browned by decades of cigarette smoke, and the ceiling is papered with pages from DownBeat magazine.

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