Craft Beer Taproom Near Me in Toranomon: Craft Beer Market's Original Branch

Craft Beer Market's first bar opened in February 2011 at 1-23-3 Nishi-Shinbashi, Minato-ku, on the ground floor of the S.A. Grace building, a two-minute walk from Exit 1 of Toranomon station on the Ginza line. If you want a craft beer taproom near me around Toranomon Hills after work, this is the original: 30 kegs on rotation, half pours at 480 yen or 680 yen including tax, and weekday-only hours, with lunch from 11.30 am and dinner from 5 pm to 11 pm.

The founder, Toru Tanaka, says he was knocked sideways by his first IPA in 2005 and spent the following years drinking his way around craft beer bars, convinced that Japan needed somewhere to drink it casually. His company, Steady Works, was founded in 2010, and the first Craft Beer Market opened here in Toranomon the following February. The chain now runs bars in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Sendai, each with its own food theme.

Music runs through the company as much as beer. In 2014 Tanaka launched CRAFTROCK FESTIVAL, a beer-and-music festival named in tribute to Fuji Rock, and in 2019 the company began brewing its own beer under the CRAFTROCK BREWING name, which it had been saving for exactly that purpose. It now brews in Nihonbashi and in Takao, on the western edge of Tokyo, and delivers to its own bars.

The price is the reason this branch fills up at 6 pm. When the first bar opened, a glass cost 480 yen. Rising costs forced increases over the years, but in September 2026 the company said that brewing and delivering its own beer had cut enough middleman costs to return to the original price. Today ten beers, including CRAFTROCK and big domestic brands, cost 480 yen per half-size glass, and the other twenty cost 680 yen, both tax included.

Half pours make flights easy. The company itself suggests that newcomers start by comparing two or three beers, and the staff will ask what you like and steer you to a glass. Because the list changes whenever a keg empties, the beer of the day is posted fresh every day on the branch blog, and the tap you liked last month may already be gone.

Every Craft Beer Market has a food concept, from lamb in Kanda to Mexican in Otemachi. Toranomon's is simply the beer snack, described by the company as dishes built to suit beer above all else, served in what it calls a beer izakaya close to Toranomon Hills. The kitchen runs separate weekday lunch, dinner, autumn-limited and special fair menus.

The dinner party plans give a clear picture of the food. The 5,500 yen same-day plan, for two people or more, includes tortilla chips, a two-item starter plate, the day's salad, fries and the bar's own fried chicken, with 120 minutes of drinks including up to 30 craft beers. The 6,500 yen plan adds a carpaccio of the day's fish, truffle-scented fries, a main and a pasta, and must be booked by the day before.

The company's stated mission is to be the entrance to craft beer, a casual bar anyone can drop into, and the Toranomon room shows it. On a weeknight the counter is lined with people from the surrounding offices stopping for one or two glasses on the way to the station, and the company's own marketing names solo drinking, after-work rounds and food pairing as the reasons people come.

Behind the bar the chain works to a quality-control manual it wrote itself, aimed at serving every beer in its best condition, and it trains staff around a principle it calls thinking from the customer's side first. For a first visit, the honest advice is to skip the bigger party plans unless you are a group, and to build your own evening from three half pours and a plate of fried chicken; it costs less and you choose the beers yourself.

This branch keeps office hours. Lunch runs from 11.30 am to 2 pm with last orders at 1.30 pm, and dinner runs from 5 pm to 11 pm, with food last orders at 10 pm and drinks at 10.30 pm. It closes on Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays, which catches out visitors planning a weekend crawl; the chain's other branches, such as Atre Kichijoji, keep their own hours and are the fallback.

The busy stretch comes when the surrounding offices empty in the early evening. Arriving at 5 pm on the dot usually gets a seat, and a late visit after 9 pm is quieter again. Online booking is available, and the plans note that some dates cannot be reserved when the bar is busy, so phone ahead for groups. A same-day cancellation of a plan booking incurs a fee.

Three stations serve the bar. Toranomon on the Ginza line is two minutes away from Exit 1, Uchisaiwaicho on the Toei Mita line is four minutes from Exit A3, and the north gate of JR Shimbashi is about eight minutes on foot, which suits anyone heading home on the Yamanote line.

Toranomon Hills, a few minutes away, has open plazas and shops that make a pleasant place to wait if you arrive before 5 pm. Hibiya Park is a fifteen-minute walk north, and Shimbashi's dense streets of yakitori counters under the railway arches start just beyond the station. If the bar is full, the Kanda and Otemachi branches of the same chain are a few stops away on the Ginza and Marunouchi lines.

Address: Craft Beer Market Toranomon, S.A. Grace 1F, 1-23-3 Nishi-Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Phone 03-6206-1603. Hours: weekdays, lunch 11.30 am to 2 pm and dinner 5 pm to 11 pm; closed Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays. Thirty rotating draft beers; half pours 480 yen or 680 yen including tax. Party plans from 5,500 yen per person for 120 minutes.