Kanagawa · Updated: 2026-10-14
Around Kannai Station (関内駅) in Yokohama there are seven walking spots, ranging from a tonkatsu restaurant founded in 1927 to a jazz live restaurant, a record bar and a soul bar. Every spot is a 2- to 6-minute walk from its nearest station: BarBarBar and Bar Discus are a 2-minute walk from Kannai Station, the tonkatsu house is 4 minutes on foot, and the record bar in Yoshidacho is 6 minutes. Because the opening hours stagger from midday to the early morning, the whole set links naturally into a single walk.
This guide covers 7 walking spots; 7 of them are an average 4-minute walk from the nearest station (2–6 min).
Counted from zorozoro listings when this page was generated. Walking minutes are estimates: straight-line distance to the nearest station × 1.3, at 80 m per minute.
Start in the daytime at Katsuretsuan Bashamichi Main Store and LANDER. From the early evening, listen your way through BarBarBar and LISTEN, spend the night in Yoshidacho at GESAN and Essence, then walk back toward Kannai Station for a last drink at Bar Discus.
A long-standing tonkatsu restaurant founded in 1927, a 4-minute walk from Kannai Station. Works by the woodblock print artist Shiko Munakata (棟方志功), who also designed the lettering of the restaurant's name, hang inside and are worth a look before or after the meal. It is open 11:00–21:00 every day with no regular closing day, so it works as a starting point whatever the hour or weekday.
A Kannai cafe in Aioicho, a 5-minute walk from Nihon-odori Station (日本大通り駅). Skaters gather here, and the pressed sandwiches — the owner's recreation of flavors eaten in the United States — are the standard order. Open 12:00–22:00 Monday to Saturday and closed on Sundays, so fit it into the daylight part of the walk.
A jazz live restaurant that has carried the scenery of Yokohama, the city of music, for more than 40 years. It is a 2-minute walk from Kannai Station, in the basement of the Kannai Arai Building in Onoecho, with a neon-sign door as the landmark. Open 18:00–23:00 Monday to Saturday, closed on Sundays.
A record bar in Yoshidacho that opened in 2023, a 6-minute walk from Kannai Station. The interior was handed down from a jazz kissa, and the music spans eras and genres. Open 17:00–24:00 Monday to Friday and 15:00–23:00 on Saturdays and Sundays, with irregular closing days.
A cafe bar in Yoshidacho, a 6-minute walk from Sakuragicho Station (桜木町駅). The interior is built around water and green tones, and there is a dessert menu as well. It opens at 18:00 (17:00 on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays), and the closing time can be checked on Instagram (@gesan_yokohama); it is closed on Mondays, with irregular closures too.
A soul bar where the dancing does not stop until dawn, a 5-minute walk from Sakuragicho Station. The sound built by its JBL speakers is the draw. It is open 20:00–04:00 every day, with irregular closing days, which makes it the place to go after the others have shut.
The map here changes with the day of the week. LANDER, BarBarBar and Bar Discus are closed on Sundays and GESAN is closed on Mondays, so for a weekend walk build the route around Katsuretsuan Bashamichi Main Store (11:00–21:00, open daily), LISTEN with its 15:00 weekend opening, and Essence from 20:00.