CÉ LA VI Tokyo

Why you should experience CÉ LA VI Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan.

CÉ LA VI Tokyo is a glamorous rooftop nightclub where Dogenzaka's after-dark character, Southeast Asian hospitality, international DJ culture and open-air views across Central Tokyo bring a Singapore-born entertainment brand high above Shibuya Station.

Set along Dogenzaka near National Route 246 and just steps from Shibuya Mark City, the venue occupies the 17th and 18th floors of Shibuya Fukuras, spreading its restaurant, sky bar, club lounge and terraces across the uppermost levels of the 103-meter tower. Floor-to-ceiling glazing keeps Shibuya's towers visible behind the interior club room before the 17th-floor terrace moves dancing outdoors beneath the skyline. Music ranges through house, hip-hop, R&B and electronic sets, with resident DJs and visiting artists carrying the venue from dinner into the early morning. The result is a Dogenzaka nightclub where altitude, music and the illuminated Shibuya cityscape give a night out the scale of the international rooftop concept that first made CÉ LA VI famous in Singapore.

What you should know about CÉ LA VI Tokyo.

CÉ LA VI Tokyo is best known for opening on December 5, 2019 as the brand's first Japanese location, arriving at Tokyu Plaza Shibuya only weeks after Shibuya Fukuras completed one of the largest projects in Dogenzaka's redevelopment. CÉ LA VI had established its international profile atop the 57th floor of Marina Bay Sands in Singapore before expanding through Hong Kong, Saint-Tropez, Taipei and Kuala Lumpur, with Shanghai and Dubai joining its expansion around the Tokyo launch. Iconic Locations Japan, established on October 17, 2018, brought together Singapore-based Iconic Locations Limited and Y's Table Corporation, the Japanese hospitality company behind XEX and Salvatore Cuomo, to develop the Tokyo operation. Shibuya Fukuras supplied an unusually prominent Japanese setting: Tezuka Architects served as design architect, Nikken Sekkei as master architect and Shimizu Corporation handled design supervision and construction across the 58,970-square-meter building. The venue itself extends across 700 tsubo and opened with three interconnected concepts: CÉ LA VI Restaurant & Sky Bar, BAO by CÉ LA VI and CÉ LA VI Club Lounge. Indoor club operations shifted onto the rooftop terrace on March 13, 2020 as CÉ LA VI Sky Club Lounge, adding an open-air chapter only three months after the Japanese debut. The Tokyo opening also arrived during an exceptional month for Shibuya architecture: Shibuya Scramble Square had opened on November 1 and Shibuya Fukuras followed later that month, placing CÉ LA VI at the summit of a western station district being physically remade around it.

The evening changes character as the building rises, beginning with drinks and Modern Asian cooking before the 17th-floor Club Lounge moves the emphasis decisively toward music. The indoor room concentrates dancers around the DJ position, then the adjoining terrace opens the night toward Shibuya's illuminated towers and the railway corridors threading through the station below. House and electronic sets provide one route through the program, with hip-hop and R&B taking over on other nights and visiting DJs expanding the roster beyond the resident team. VIP tables place bottle service around the club floor, with current minimum spends reaching ¥150,000 on weekdays and ¥300,000 on weekends and nights preceding holidays. The Club Lounge currently runs until 4 a.m. across much of the week and 4:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, allowing the rooftop to remain active through the deepest hours of Dogenzaka nightlife. CÉ LA VI Tokyo gains its strongest character from that progression between enclosed club energy and open sky, giving the music a physical setting inseparable from its position seventeen floors above Shibuya.

How to fold CÉ LA VI Tokyo into your trip.

CÉ LA VI Tokyo works as the late-night destination within a Shibuya Station route connecting Japan's most famous canine memorial, the 2019 tower that redrew the district's eastern skyline and the architectural redevelopment directly beneath the club itself.

Begin at Hachiko Statue, where the first bronze likeness by sculptor Teru Ando was unveiled on April 21, 1934 with Hachiko himself present. Wartime metal collection claimed that sculpture in 1944, and Teru's son Takeshi Ando created the second statue unveiled on August 15, 1948, fixing the Akita dog's story permanently to the station where he had waited for Tokyo Imperial University professor Hidesaburo Ueno. Continue to Shibuya Sky, opened on November 1, 2019 across the 14th, 45th and 46th floors and rooftop of the 47-story Shibuya Scramble Square. The 230-meter tower was developed by Tokyu, JR East and Tokyo Metro, with Nikken Sekkei, Kengo Kuma and SANAA among the design architects; its open-air Sky Stage places visitors 229 meters above Shibuya. Conclude at Shibuya Fukuras, opened in November 2019 on a 3,336-square-meter Dogenzaka site with Tezuka Architects, Nikken Sekkei and Shimizu Corporation responsible for major elements of the 18-story, 58,970-square-meter project. The tower restored Tokyu Plaza Shibuya to the district and reserved its highest commercial floors for CÉ LA VI's Japanese debut. CÉ LA VI Tokyo completes the ascent on floors 17 and 18, carrying an evening from Hachiko's station plaza through two defining products of Shibuya's 2019 building boom before the final hours unfold above Dogenzaka.

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