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Assistants · Tokyo cafes and bars, JP · October 2026

Where assistants send people in Tokyo cafes and bars

36 answers from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, asked on 2026-10-26, to the questions people ask and to questions about the top businesses in the index. 92% of them link a business's own site or its booking software, and 22% link a marketplace, most often autoreserve.com (14%).

92%

of answers link the business's own site or its booking software

22%

link a marketplace

14%

link autoreserve.com, the marketplace named most

36

answers, 36 to the questions people ask and 0 about businesses

Of the 36 answers to the questions people ask, 92% link a business's own site or its booking software and 22% a marketplace, autoreserve.com most often.

Updated 2026-11-03. The Tokyo cafes and bars index · Places named, question by question · Markdown · JSON · Share image · All cities.

League table

The destinations, most linked first

Each row is a place an answer can send people. Share is the percentage of all 36 answers that link to it. Each assistant's column counts only that assistant's answers.

DestinationKindAnswersShareChatGPTClaudeGemini
The businesses' own sitesown site3289%12 100%9 75%11 92%
Press, guides and forumspress and guides1028%0010 83%
TableCheckvendor, direct719%03 25%4 33%
autoreserve.commarketplace514%005 42%
hotels.commarketplace26%002 17%
navitime.comdirectory
Navigation, map, and transit directory service for Japan.
26%002 17%
Tabelogdirectory26%1 8%1 8%0
Time Outdirectory26%002 17%
tokyocalling.meother site26%002 17%
310.coffeeother site13%1 8%00
310coffee.comother site13%1 8%00
agoda.commarketplace13%001 8%
bishokuquest.comother site13%001 8%
cityandsee.comother site13%001 8%
eatme.co.jpother site13%1 8%00

42 more destinations with fewer answers each are in the JSON.

By assistant

What each assistant does in Tokyo cafes and bars

ChatGPT: answered by gpt-6-luna (12).

Claude: answered by claude-sonnet-5-5 (12).

Gemini: answered by gemini-2.5-flash (12).

Places named when people ask

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places and a link to book or order with each one directly. The table shows how many of the places it named came with a link to the place's own site, to a marketplace or to a directory, or with no link at all.

AssistantOwn site or directMarketplaceDirectoryNo linkPlaces
ChatGPT93%0%0%7%30
Claude63%0%9%28%32
Gemini89%3%0%9%35
Question by question

Who gets named, and with which link

Asked on 2026-10-26. A place in this index links to its report. A place with its own site that isn't in the index yet links to a scan. "No link" means the assistant named the place but didn't link its site. Each question links to the full list of places named.

QuestionChatGPTClaudeGemini
A quiet cafe near the centre where I can sit with my laptop this morning.abno own site
HAKADORU Shinjuku-sanchōme own site
Caffice own site
GESHARY COFFEE no link
Brooklyn Roasting Company no link
Crossties Coffee no link
Caffice no link
Ueshima Coffee Shinjuku Minamiguchi no link
THE ROASTERY by NOZY COFFEE own site
Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.Janu Bar own site
The Raining Circus own site
Tokyo Confidential own site
Bar Centifolia no link
Ishi no Hana no link
The SG Club no link
The SG Club own site
Bar Benfiddich own site
Bar Centifolia own site
The best specialty coffee in town, open right now.Fuglen Tokyo Tomigaya own siteFuglen Tokyo own site
Glitch Coffee & Roasters own site
Onibus Coffee own site
Onibus Coffee Nakameguro own site
Glitch Coffee & Roasters own site
Single O Japan own site
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?THE FooTNiK own site
Hobgoblin Roppongi own site
The Footnik own site
Hobgoblin own site
Sports Bar Fiori own site
THE FooTNiK own site
The Aldgate British Pub own site
Tokyo Sports Cafe own site
Brunch at a cafe on Saturday. Where do I book?MERCER BRUNCH TERRACE HOUSE own site
un cafe own site
Sarabeths own siteMERCER BRUNCH Ginza Terrace own site
Sarabeths Tokyo own site
A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.W XYZ Bar at Aloft Tokyo Ginza own site
MAMBO Cigar Lounge own site
Blue Note Tokyo own site
Cotton Club own site
Billboard Live Tokyo own site
Cotton Club own site
Shinjuku Pit Inn own site
Rock Bar Bauhaus Roppongi own site
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?ECO FARM CAFE 632 own site
GAZEBO TOKYO own site
Paul Bassett Shinjuku no link
Tricolore Honten no link
Chatei Hatou no link
GINZA WEST Main Store own site
HIGASHIYA GINZA own site
SHOTO CAFE no link
A rooftop bar for sunset drinks, reserve a table for two.Andaz Tokyo Rooftop Bar own site
Starlight at The Okura Tokyo own site
SOAK at sequence MIYASHITA PARK own site
Rooftop Bar at Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills own site
Sky Bar & Dining Stellar Garden own site
The Peak Bar at Park Hyatt Tokyo own site
Two Rooms Grill own site
Rooftop Bar at Andaz Tokyo own site
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.THE FRONT ROOM own site
NOA CAFE GINZA own site
GINZA Cafe Hanon own site
Good Coffee Farms Café & Bar own site
Byron Bay Coffee Company directory
The Atrium at The Tokyo Station Hotel own site
Sawamura Bakery & Restaurant Shinjuku own site
Unitora Honten own site
NOA CAFE Ginza own site
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?Punch Room Tokyo own site
Bar Feles own site
Punch Room no link
Gen Yamamoto own site
Bar High Five own site
Bar Benfiddich own site
The SG Club own site
Gen Yamamoto own site
Bar High Five own site
The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?Kanpai Stand SHIBUYA own site
TAP&CROWLER Shibuya own site
Quick answer no link
Baird Beer Nakameguro Taproom own site
Beer Club Popeye directory
Craft Beer Market directory
DevilCraft own site
CRAFT BEER MARKET marketplace
Baird Beer Harajuku Taproom own site
A cafe or bar where we can play board games tonight, table for five.JELLY JELLY CAFE own site
Asobi Cafe own site
DyCE Global Board Game Cafe own site
Jelly Jelly Cafe own site
DyCE Board Game Cafe own site
JELLY JELLY CAFE own site
LITTLE CAVE own site
U-Cafe Ueno own site
Method

How this is counted

Everything here is counted in answers, using the latest answer from each assistant to each question, asked with web search on. Some questions are the ones people ask ("best pizza delivered right now", "book me a table for Saturday"). The others are three questions about each of the top-ranked businesses in the index: the official website, where to book and where to order. Every link in an answer is read. A destination counts once for each answer that links to it, whether as the place to book or as a source the assistant cited. So each share is the share of answers that link that destination, and the shares don't add up to 100%.

All the businesses' own sites share one row, whatever the business. A booking or ordering vendor on the business's own domain counts as direct. Marketplaces and directories are named. Listing, review and map sites (Tripadvisor, Google Maps, Yelp) count as directories, even where the scanner files them with the marketplaces. Newspapers, magazines, guides, forums and tourism sites share one row. Anything left is listed by its registered domain, and a model sorts each of those unknown hosts once into directory, press, marketplace, vendor, business or other, with the reason shown. Text that only looks like a host because a space is missing ("them.here") is dropped. Business names are matched against the index. A place that isn't in the index links to a scan of its site, if the assistant gave one.

Updated 2026-11-03. The data is open, and the JSON version of this page has every destination. Methodology.