Why you should experience Biaponba Grove Nishishinjukuten in Tokyo, Japan.
Biaponba Grove Nishishinjukuten is a game-driven bar where Nishi-Shinjuku's late-night character, competitive beer pong, five electronic dartboards and private-party scale turn a fifth-floor room near Shinjuku Station into an unusually complete social playground.
Set along the streets west of Shinjuku Station near Koshu Kaido and just steps from the Keio Department Store, the 60-seat bar occupies the fifth floor of Imasa Building with darts, beer pong and karaoke distributed through a room designed around groups. Five dart machines currently span DARTSLIVE and Phoenix systems, giving serious players several electronic formats before the dedicated beer-pong table shifts the evening toward head-to-head competition. Karaoke, a 50-inch screen, microphones and party equipment broaden the setup beyond throwing games, with food and a drinks list exceeding 100 choices supporting nights that run deep into the morning. The result is a Nishi-Shinjuku bar where darts provide the technical foundation before beer pong, karaoke and group play steadily expand the night.
What you should know about Biaponba Grove Nishishinjukuten.
Biaponba Grove Nishishinjukuten is best known for joining Global Grove's expanding beer-pong-bar portfolio in 2021, the same year the company added Grove locations in Shinjuku, Shimbashi and Roppongi alongside the western Shinjuku operation. Global Grove's roots reach to a slot-machine rental business started in 2004 and the first Darts Cafe Grove in Kanda in 2005, followed by the original company's establishment in 2007 and subsequent expansion across amusement bars and equipment leasing. The company entered beer-pong-machine development and rental in July 2020, placing proprietary game equipment alongside a darts business that now supplies machines to 200 partner locations across the Kanto region. Nishi-Shinjuku brought that model to 1-13-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, occupying Imasa Building's fifth floor with 60 seats and a dedicated beer-pong unit. The current darts installation comprises three Phoenix X machines, one DARTSLIVE2 and one DARTSLIVE3, linking two major electronic-darts platforms inside the same room. Global Grove has since carried the format far beyond its 2021 western Shinjuku expansion, adding successive locations across Tokyo and later reaching Osaka, Fukuoka, Sendai and other Japanese cities.
Phoenix X supplies three of the five current dart positions, with DARTSLIVE2 and DARTSLIVE3 completing a setup broad enough for players accustomed to either major platform. The ¥1,100 unlimited-darts option changes the economics for longer sessions, removing per-game calculation and making repeated matches a natural backbone for the evening. Beer pong changes both the equipment and group structure, placing opponents at opposite ends of a dedicated table and turning ping-pong-ball accuracy into a faster party game between dart matches. Karaoke provides a third activity without leaving the room, supported by microphones and a large screen that also equips the space for sports viewing and larger gatherings. The bar accommodates 60 seated guests and up to 100 for standing events, giving Grove enough scale to move from small competitive groups toward full-room parties. More than 100 drinks and 30 food choices complete the setup, keeping the fifth-floor operation viable for several hours of alternating games, drinks and food.
How to fold Biaponba Grove Nishishinjukuten into your trip.
Biaponba Grove Nishishinjukuten works as the late-night destination within a Nishi-Shinjuku route connecting Kenzo Tange's metropolitan-government complex, Junzo Sakakura's postwar civic architecture and the skyscraper that inaugurated the district's vertical transformation during the 1970s.
Begin at Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, completed in 1991 after Kenzo Tange Associates won the design competition for Tokyo's new administrative headquarters. Twin towers rise from the 48-story Main Building No. 1, with public observatories around 202 meters above ground providing a direct survey across the skyscraper district that developed after the former Yodobashi purification plant vacated the area. Continue to Shinjuku Chuo Park, opened in 1968 beside the emerging high-rise district and now covering 88,000 square meters immediately west of the metropolitan-government complex. Junzo Sakakura Associates designed the park's Shimin-no-Mori pavilion during a later phase of its architectural development, adding a compact work by one of Japan's principal postwar modernists to the district's civic landscape. Conclude at Keio Plaza Hotel, opened in June 1971 as Japan's first skyscraper hotel, with a 47-story main tower rising 170 meters above Nishi-Shinjuku. The project arrived before the surrounding cluster of office towers had taken full form, making its height an early declaration of the scale that would define the district over the following decade. Biaponba Grove Nishishinjukuten closes the progression closer to Shinjuku Station, trading Nishi-Shinjuku's grand vertical architecture for a fifth-floor room built around darts, beer pong and karaoke until morning.
Where your story begins.
Foresyte Travel reveals places that feel extraordinary long before you arrive.
Experience premium editorial crafted for luxury travelers.
