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Best Wine Lists in Tokyo 2026
Wine lists · Tokyo · 7 cellars ranked · Updated May 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published March 3, 2026 · Updated May 22, 2026
La Tour d'Argent keeps the deepest cellar in Tokyo, and it is not close. A great wine list, though, is more than a heavy binder: it is depth where it counts, allocation a casual diner cannot get, a mark-up that does not punish curiosity, and a sommelier who can build a pairing rather than just fetch a label. Tokyo's best are split by specialism, a French cathedral here, a Spanish obsessive there, an Italian tower and a sommelier-owned room. These seven, ranked, are where the bottle is as much the point as the plate, with the food good enough to deserve it.
1.La Tour d'Argent Tokyo
Tokyo's deepest cellar, the only branch of the 1582 Paris house, dinner from about 34,000 yen. Reserve it for a serious bottle.
La Tour d'Argent's Tokyo branch, open inside the Hotel New Otani in Kioicho since 1984, brought the Paris original's obsession with wine to Japan, and its cellar remains the deepest in the city, the reference point every other list is measured against. The carte runs Burgundy and Bordeaux in vintage depth, and the sommeliers can pull verticals most rooms cannot. The cooking is classical, the numbered pressed duck the set-piece, and dinner runs from about 34,000 yen. For a table built around one great bottle rather than the menu, start here. Tell the sommelier the bottle and the budget when you book, not on the night.
Book through the Hotel New Otani; brief the sommelier on the bottle ahead.
2.Zurriola
Seiichi Honda's two-star Basque room, 800-plus Spanish bottles behind a foie gras in Pedro Ximenez. Book it for depth in Spain.
For Spanish wine, nothing in Tokyo touches Zurriola, the two-star Basque room chef Seiichi Honda has run on the fourth floor of Ginza's Kojun Building since it took a second star in 2015. The list runs past 800 Spanish bottles, Rioja and Ribera del Duero and well beyond, a specialism no French-leaning cellar can match. Honda's cooking gives the wine its match, with a signature foie gras infused with Pedro Ximénez. It is the city's clearest case of a list built deep around a single country. Book ahead and hand the sommelier the regions you want to drink.
Book Zurriola ahead; tell the sommelier the Spanish regions you want.
3.Sézanne
Daniel Calvert's three-star at the Four Seasons, No. 7 in the world in 2025, with a blue-chip cellar. Book it for the full pairing.
SÉZANNE, Daniel Calvert's three-star on the seventh floor of the Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi, took No. 7 on the World's 50 Best in 2025 and Best Restaurant in Japan from Asia's 50 Best the same year. The wine program matches the food's pedigree, a blue-chip list and a pairing built by a serious sommelier team, the kind of cellar a Four Seasons flagship can fund. Menus run 40,000 and 80,000 yen. For a table that wants the cooking and the wine both at the very top, with a room to match, it is the modern benchmark. Book the longer menu and the wine pairing together.
Book Sézanne's longer menu with the wine pairing.
4.ESqUISSE
Lionel Beccat's two-star Ginza room pairs a daily French menu with a deep European cellar. Reserve it for a classic pairing night.
ESqUISSE, on the ninth floor of Ginza's Royal Crystal building, is the two-star room of Corsican-born chef Lionel Beccat, who has led the kitchen since 2012 and keeps a place on Star Wine List's Tokyo guide. The menu changes daily, seven dishes around 40,000 yen, and the cellar leans deep into France with a by-the-glass program that lets a table follow the food bottle for bottle. The sommelier team is among the most assured in Ginza. For a pairing menu where the glasses keep pace with serious cooking, it is a top choice. Book dinner and take the wine pairing rather than ordering by the bottle.
Book ESqUISSE for dinner; take the by-the-glass pairing.
5.BVLGARI Il Ristorante Luca Fantin
Luca Fantin's one-star Italian tower room keeps Tokyo's strongest Italian cellar. Reserve it for great Italian wine over Ginza.
Il Ristorante by Luca Fantin, high in the Bulgari Ginza Tower since 2017, holds the best Italian wine list in Tokyo, which figures given Fantin is the only Italian chef in Japan with a Michelin star. The cellar runs the Italian regions in depth, Barolo and Brunello and the rest, and the room earns a place on Star Wine List's Tokyo selection. Lunch sets start at 12,000 yen, and dinner is the wine occasion. For a table that wants to drink Italian properly rather than the usual French, this is the room. Book dinner and let the sommelier open the Italian list.
Book Il Ristorante for dinner; let the sommelier open the Italian list.
6.Crony
Sommelier-owner Kazutaka Ozawa runs one of Tokyo's smartest pairings, an 18-course menu at 28,600 yen. Try it for a pairing that thinks.
Crony is unusual in being co-owned by its sommelier, Kazutaka Ozawa, alongside chef Michihiro Haruta, which shows in a pairing that reads the eighteen-course menu course by course rather than pouring to a formula. The two-star Nishi-azabu room, 28,600 yen with tax, is French through a Nordic lens, with a sea urchin Danish and a table sourdough as signatures. The list is not the deepest in the city, but the matching is among the most thoughtful, and the value is real. For a pairing chosen with care rather than scale, book the counter and take the glasses.
Book the Crony counter; take the pairing over a single bottle.
7.L'Osier
Shiseido's three-star French flagship pairs a formal cellar with eight years at the top. Book it for a classic Ginza wine dinner.
L'Osier, Shiseido's French flagship in Ginza, has held three Michelin stars for eight consecutive years through 2026, and the cellar matches the formality of the room. Executive chef Olivier Chaignon's classical cooking is built for grand French wine, and the list runs the regions with the depth a house this serious keeps. Dinner menus run 23,000 to 39,000 yen, which makes a great-bottle night more reachable here than at most three-stars. For a formal Ginza dinner where the wine is the centrepiece and the service is flawless, it is a benchmark. Book the longer menu and brief the sommelier on the cellar you want to drink.
Reserve L'Osier's longer menu; brief the sommelier in advance.
Avoid for this list
Great kitchens, thin lists for wine
Sushi Saito. The great sushi counters are about fish and rice, not a cellar; the drink is tea, sake or beer, and the wine list is an afterthought. Saito, Sukiyabashi Jiro and their peers are unmissable for the sushi, but build a wine night around a French or Italian room instead.
Den. Zaiyu Hasegawa's two-star is joyful, but it is a sake-and-personality room, not a place to chase a Burgundy vertical. For wine at this level, the Ginza French rooms and La Tour d'Argent are the address; keep Den for the food and the pours it does well.
Drinking well in Tokyo
Corkage is rare at this level and often refused, so the smart move is the house pairing at the rooms built for it, Crony, Sézanne and ESqUISSE, where the glasses are chosen to track the menu. Mark-ups run high at the hotel rooms, La Tour d'Argent, Bulgari and Sézanne at the Four Seasons, so a single great bottle can be better value than a flight. Tell the sommelier the budget and the region in advance, so the bottle is pulled and decanted before you sit, and remember that by-the-glass is thin outside the pairing menus.
For rare allocations, call ahead: many of these cellars hold back verticals that never make the printed list, and La Tour d'Argent in particular can reach for vintages on request. A weekday dinner gives the sommelier more time at your table than a packed Saturday. To plan the rest of the trip, browse the Tokyo dining guide and the fine dining worldwide guide.
Frequently asked
Which Tokyo restaurant has the best wine list?
La Tour d'Argent Tokyo, inside the Hotel New Otani in Kioicho, keeps the deepest cellar in the city, the branch of the 1582 Paris house that brought that obsession to Japan in 1984. It runs Burgundy and Bordeaux in vintage depth and the sommeliers can pull verticals most rooms cannot. For a single specialism rather than depth across France, Zurriola's 800-plus Spanish bottles in Ginza are unmatched.
Where is the best Spanish or Italian wine in Tokyo?
Zurriola for Spanish, Bulgari Il Ristorante Luca Fantin for Italian. Zurriola, the two-star Basque room in Ginza, keeps more than 800 Spanish bottles across Rioja, Ribera del Duero and beyond. Il Ristorante, high in the Bulgari Ginza Tower, holds the city's strongest Italian list, deep in Barolo and Brunello, fitting since Luca Fantin is the only Italian chef in Japan with a Michelin star. Both earn places on Star Wine List's Tokyo guide.
Is a wine pairing or a bottle better value in Tokyo?
It depends on the room. At sommelier-led kitchens such as Crony, Sézanne and ESqUISSE, the pairing is thought through course by course and is the better experience. At the hotel rooms, where mark-ups on the list run high, a single great bottle chosen with the sommelier can beat a flight on value. Tell the sommelier your budget and region in advance either way.
Can you bring your own wine to a Tokyo restaurant?
Rarely. Corkage at this level is uncommon and often declined outright, especially at the hotel rooms and three-stars. If you have a special bottle, ask well in advance rather than arriving with it, and be prepared for a no. The better route at most of these rooms is to brief the sommelier on what you want to drink and let the cellar provide it.
Is the wine at Sézanne worth it?
Yes, if you take the pairing. Daniel Calvert's three-star at the Four Seasons Marunouchi, No. 7 on the World's 50 Best in 2025, runs a blue-chip cellar and a pairing built by a serious sommelier team, funded the way only a Four Seasons flagship can manage. Menus are 40,000 and 80,000 yen, so it is a splurge, but the wine sits at the same level as the cooking. Book the longer menu with the pairing.
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