Tokyo · Ebisu
Liquidroom
A nine-hundred-capacity room in Ebisu with a booking policy that ignores genre
Sets that start and finish exactly on time, because the trains do
Tokyo's live house culture runs on a rhythm that surprises visitors: doors at seven, the headline act at eight, everyone out by ten so the audience can catch the last train. Liquidroom, in Ebisu since 2004, is the best-sounding room in that category, booking electronic, rock and experimental acts without caring which is which.
The drink charge on top of the ticket is standard across Japanese venues and buys you one drink; it is not a scam, it is how the rooms are funded.
The detail
Good to know
- Opened
- In Ebisu since 2004
- Capacity
- About 900
- Drink charge
- Standard, buys one drink
- Timing
- Ends before the last trains
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