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October 16, 2024

Sweet Rain

Sweet Rain

Jazz of Japan #270 • Oct 16, 2024 • Brian McCrory


Sweet Rain jazz club, located near Nakano station in Tokyo, Japan

Sweet Rain offers a great room for great jazz, a small but comfortable space with enough room for jazz trios and small combos. The space is neat, cozy, and clean. The atmosphere offers the relaxing feeling of a familiar hideaway where the stimulation of exciting jazz brushes off the daily grind like sweet rain washing out the dirty grime.

The dim lighting and muted colors enhance the otherwordly atmosphere, further elevated by the charming back walls of Sweet Rain that are adorned with comic renditions of local musicians and featured performances. Some of this art also finds its way into a cute desk calendar produced by Sweet Rain and available to bar customers, when available.

Billed as a “Nakano jazz dining bar” (Nakano is a station and district in Tokyo), the menu features a variety of tasty home-cooked meals that lure jazz fans and neighborhood locals to this spot for jazz and grub.

For more information:

  • Sweet Rain’s website
  • Located near Nakano station in Tokyo, Japan

Images

Emiko Voice’s Carta Trio with Koichi Sato (piano) and Keita Okada (drums) at Sweet Rain in October 2018
Kaito Nakamura (drums) Quartet with Koichi Hirata (guitar), Otohiko Fuse (piano), and Riku Takahashi (bass) at Sweet Rain in April 2024
Kaito Nakamura (drums) Quartet with Koichi Hirata (guitar), Otohiko Fuse (piano), and Riku Takahashi (bass) at Sweet Rain in April 2024
Yudo Matsuo (guitar) Bosco Trio with Kosuke Ochiai (bass) and Ko Omura (drums) at Sweet Rain in April 2024
Art on walls at Sweet Rain
Sweet Rain business card
Art on walls at Sweet Rain
Stage area and front row at Sweet Rain
Stage area at Sweet Rain
Sweet Rain before a performance
Sweet Rain 2024 calendar
Sweet Rain 2024 calendar pages
Sweet Rain Spanish-style omelette
Welcome to Sweet Rain

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