Fuji Rock & Summer Sonic Tokyo Afterparty Guide (2026)

Most Tokyo nightlife guides ignore festival weekends entirely, which is a strange omission — Fuji Rock and Summer Sonic between them pull around 250,000 people through the Kanto region every August, and roughly half of that crowd ends up back in Tokyo on the Sunday or Monday night looking for a continuation of the weekend. The official festival programming ends at 23:00 in Naeba and 22:30 in Chiba; the foreign artists who played those slots are mostly contracted to play one or two extended Tokyo dates the same week; and every club promoter in the city knows that the August festival window is the highest-density tourist nightlife period of the year. The afterparty scene exists. It just doesn't surface in the English-language travel content because it shifts venues every year and the booking happens on Japanese promoter Twitter, not on TripAdvisor.

This guide is the version that does cover it. It's organized around the two big August festivals — Fuji Rock at Naeba (last weekend of July) and Summer Sonic at Chiba/Maishima Osaka (mid-August) — and extends to the year-round festival aftermath circuit (Ultra Japan in September, EDC Japan in spring, the smaller domestic events). The structure: where the official afterparties land, where the unofficial DJ sets happen, how the wristband-discount system actually works, the return-train logistics that decide whether you can even make a 02:00 Tokyo set, and the recovery-day food and bath itinerary if you land back at Tokyo Station already broken. If you're flying in for the festival weekend specifically, this is the one read for the gap between when the headline set ends and when your last train home leaves.

Two assumptions before we start. First: you're a festival-goer returning to Tokyo, not a Tokyo resident who didn't go to the festival. The city has a different pulse on those weekends — the flagship clubs are running festival-tied programming, not regular nights — and this guide is written for the wristband-wearing version of you. Second: you're reading this in advance. The afterparty schedule for any given year goes live 6–10 weeks before the festival, and the best venues sell out 2–4 weeks out. If you're reading this on the train back from Naeba, you will get into something — Tokyo always has slack — but you won't get into the specific set you flew in for.

The 30-Second Answer

• The two festivals run different return-day logic. Fuji Rock ends Sunday and the train back from Naeba doesn't land in Tokyo until ~22:00 Sunday or Monday morning depending on which option you take. Summer Sonic ends Sunday and the return is a 35–60 minute commute back from Chiba — easy. Plan your Tokyo afterparty night accordingly: aggressive plans for Summer Sonic Sunday, recovery plans for Fuji Rock Sunday/Monday.
• Official afterparties exist but they're a minority. The festivals license a handful of venues each year for "official" afterparty branding (Womb in Shibuya for both Fuji Rock and Summer Sonic in most years, Aoyama Hachi for the indie circuit for the EDM circuit). The bigger volume is in unofficial sets booked by individual promoters — same DJs, same week, no festival branding.
• Wristband discounts are a real thing — keep your wristband on. Most official partners offer ¥500–¥1,500 off entry or one free drink for festival wristband holders for 2–3 days after the festival ends. Don't cut your wristband off Sunday night. It's also a social signal that gets you talked to in line.
• DJ-set spotting is informal. If a DJ played a 60-minute festival set on Saturday, they're almost always doing a 90-to-180-minute Tokyo extended set Sunday or Monday. Check RA (Resident Advisor), the venue's own Twitter, and the promoter Twitter accounts (Womb, Mogra) starting 6 weeks out. The schedule is rarely published in English.
• Best afterparty districts: Shibuya (Womb, Aoyama Hachi, the small Dogenzaka clubs) for international artists. Shin-Kiba (major Shinjuku megaclub Zero Tokyo) for the festival-headliner-tier EDM. Roppongi (the V2/Color/R Lounge cluster) for casual mainstream-EDM nights. Aoyama for the deep-house, jazzy crossover nights. Higashi-Shinjuku Ni-chōme for the queer afterparty scene (especially around EDC Japan).
• Worst-case fallback if you can't get into anywhere: Shibuya yokocho or a 24-hour ramen shop. Both work. The festival weekend brings out the late-night izakaya crowd and the city does not feel sleepy on Sunday night.
• For Fuji Rock specifically: The "afterparty" is often Monday night, not Sunday — Sunday you're still on a coach back. Plan a Monday Tokyo night, not a Sunday one.

The detail is below, festival by festival.

Summer Sonic — The Easy Tokyo Return

Summer Sonic Tokyo runs at ZOZO Marine Stadium and Makuhari Messe in Chiba, mid-August, traditionally the second or third weekend of the month. (The Osaka leg runs the same weekend at Maishima Sonic Park, and the lineup rotates between the two cities — same artists, mostly different days.) The Tokyo end of Summer Sonic is on the eastern edge of the metropolitan area, accessible by JR Keiyo Line from Tokyo Station. The festival typically ends at 22:00–22:30 each night with the headliner set, and the return commute is the easy part: 35–55 minutes back to central Tokyo.

This makes Summer Sonic the good festival for a Tokyo afterparty plan. Sunday night is genuinely viable. You can be at Womb in Shibuya by 23:30 and inside before midnight if you move efficiently from Kaihin Makuhari station to Tokyo Station and then onto the Yamanote. Saturday night is even easier — the festival doesn't end your weekend, so you can plan a real night.

Return logistics

• Festival end times: Roughly 22:00–22:30, but the headliner sets sometimes finish earlier. Check the day's schedule; some headliners end at 21:30 for Tokyo Sonic specifically.
• Train from Kaihin Makuhari station: JR Keiyo Line back to Tokyo Station, ~38 minutes, runs frequently until ~00:30. Last train back from Tokyo to Kaihin Makuhari (if you're staying near the venue) is around 00:00.
• The crowd shape: Expect peak congestion at Kaihin Makuhari station for the first 45 minutes after the headliner ends. If you can stay for the encore and miss the rush, you'll find the ride home actually pleasant. If you need to make a 23:30 Tokyo door, leave during the second-to-last song.
• What people actually do: Most foreign festival-goers go back to their hotel first — Marunouchi, Shinjuku, Shibuya — to swap out the festival-day shorts for something that won't get them turned away at a club door. Plan 30–45 minutes of buffer for this.

Saturday night options (the best Summer Sonic night)

Saturday is when the Tokyo afterparty scene shows up in force. Most years the official-partner clubs run a Summer Sonic-branded night, the international DJs who played afternoon sets at the festival show up at smaller venues for 02:00 takeovers, and the Shibuya circuit is at full capacity.

• Womb (Shibuya). Womb is the single most reliable Summer Sonic afterparty venue and has been the de facto Tokyo home of the festival's late-night programming for over a decade. In most recent years Womb has run an official Summer Sonic afterparty for both Saturday and Sunday nights, with bookings drawn from the festival's electronic stage. Check their schedule 6–8 weeks out. ¥3,500–¥4,500 entry, often discounted with a Summer Sonic wristband. Open until ~05:00.
• major Shinjuku megaclub Zero Tokyo Mainland (Shin-Kiba). major Shinjuku megaclub Zero Tokyo is the only true festival-scale club in Tokyo and is the natural landing pad for any Summer Sonic act on the EDM main-stage tier. The drive between Shin-Kiba and Tokyo Station is short, but the venue is far enough out that you commit to it for the full night (last train issues — major Shinjuku megaclub Zero Tokyo runs free shuttle buses from Shibuya). When major Shinjuku megaclub Zero Tokyo books a Summer Sonic afterparty it's typically headliner-tier and runs ¥4,500–¥6,000 with international guest list possible if you're a wristband holder. Entire-night option.
• Aoyama Hachi (Aoyama). The smaller-club option for a Summer Sonic Saturday with a "we caught one DJ at the festival, let's catch their longer Tokyo set" plan. Aoyama Hachi books left-of-center electronic music — house, techno, leftfield — and the post-Summer-Sonic schedule frequently picks up artists who played the Sonic Stage or the Beach Stage. ¥2,500–¥4,000 entry. Open until ~06:00 on weekends.
• Vent (Omotesando). Tokyo's premier underground techno club, Vent typically books a Summer Sonic-week night even when not officially partnered. If your festival highlight was a deep techno or house artist, Vent is the natural Tokyo follow-up. ¥3,000–¥4,500. Open until ~05:00.

Sunday night options (tighter window)

Sunday is the harder night — the festival ends and you're on the train. Plans need to be more compact. By the time you've showered and changed it's 23:30 at the earliest, and the door windows for the marquee venues close at 02:00 for new entry. A Sunday Summer Sonic afterparty plan looks like:

1. Early arrival at Womb or Aoyama Hachi (23:30–00:30). Both clubs run programming Sunday night and the door is open. This is the realistic plan.
2. The "fall into a yokocho instead" plan. If you're broken from two days at Chiba, skip the club and post up at Omoide Yokocho or Nonbei Yokocho until last train. See Omoide Yokocho and Nonbei Yokocho for the format.
3. The Roppongi option. R Lounge, V2, and Color in Roppongi run mainstream-EDM programming every Sunday and don't require a festival-tie-in to book the night. Easier door, less curated music. ¥3,000–¥4,000 with one-drink-included.

Wristband mechanics for Summer Sonic week

In recent years Summer Sonic has run an "Aftersonic" partner program with 10–20 Tokyo and Osaka venues offering wristband-holder benefits for 2–4 days after the festival ends. Benefits typically include:

• ¥500–¥1,000 off the door at partner clubs (Womb, Aoyama Hachi, V2, others).
• One free drink ticket at partner bars (a longer list — most of the cocktail bars in Shibuya and Roppongi participate when they're approached, plus some izakaya chains).
• Discounted or free entry to museums and adjunct attractions. (Less relevant for a nightlife guide but worth knowing.)

The full list goes live on the official Summer Sonic website 1–2 weeks before the festival and stays up through the post-festival window. Keep your wristband on. The discount typically applies at the door without you needing to ask, but if you're not sure, ask the staff if they're "Aftersonic 提携" (afta-sonikku teikei) — the partner program in Japanese.

Fuji Rock — The Hard Tokyo Return

Fuji Rock runs at the Naeba Ski Resort in Yuzawa, Niigata, last weekend of July. It's the better festival of the two on most fronts — the lineup is more international, the scenery is on another planet, the crowd skews older and calmer — but it is significantly harder to convert into a Tokyo afterparty than Summer Sonic. Naeba is a 4-hour return journey to Tokyo: shuttle bus from the festival to Echigo-Yuzawa station, then a 75-minute Joetsu Shinkansen back to Tokyo Station. The festival ends at 23:00 each night, the last shuttle from Naeba back to Echigo-Yuzawa runs at 23:30 most years, and the last shinkansen to Tokyo from Echigo-Yuzawa leaves at around 21:30 — before the headliner set has finished. There is no late-night Fuji Rock-to-Tokyo same-night option that doesn't involve a private car or staying through the night and taking the first shinkansen at 06:00 Monday.

This shapes the Tokyo afterparty schedule for Fuji Rock. Monday night is the real Fuji Rock afterparty night, not Sunday. Most foreign-headliner Fuji Rock acts play their Tokyo extended set on Monday — the festival promoter arranges the Tokyo date as part of the booking package. The entire festival's foreign-tourist crowd cycles through Tokyo on Monday night before flying out Tuesday or Wednesday. The Tokyo nightlife scene compensates by running a heavier Monday calendar in the Fuji Rock window than at any other time of year.

Return logistics

• Sunday end of festival: 23:00 at the Green Stage. By the time you've walked to the campsite or your shuttle pickup, it's 23:30–00:00.
• Last shinkansen Sunday: ~21:30 from Echigo-Yuzawa. Already gone if you stayed for the headliner.
• Monday morning: First shinkansen from Echigo-Yuzawa around 06:00, in Tokyo by 07:30. Most foreign festival-goers take this option. Sleep on the festival ground or the campsite, get up at 05:00, train to Tokyo, sleep 09:00–14:00 in the hotel.
• Festival shuttles: Naeba Prince Hotel runs return shuttles to Echigo-Yuzawa every 30 minutes during the festival. Last shuttle ~23:30 Sunday. Reserved seat coaches direct from the festival to Tokyo Bus Terminal Yaesu also run; book in advance via the festival site.
• Hotel logistics: If you stayed at a Naeba area hotel (Prince, Naeba Highlands, the smaller pensions in Tashiro/Mitsumata) you have until ~10:00 Monday for checkout and full access to the festival shuttle network for that morning.

The Monday Tokyo plan

Monday night in the Fuji Rock window is the Tokyo nightlife scene's worst-kept secret — every Tokyo club promoter knows the foreign-festival crowd is in town for one more night, and the schedule is built around it. Plan your Monday like a Saturday.

• Womb (Shibuya). Monday-of-Fuji-Rock at Womb is one of the most heavily booked nights of the year. Recent years have featured artists like Four Tet, Floating Points, Roman Flügel, and Honey Dijon doing Tokyo extended sets on Fuji Rock Monday — same DJ, same week, two-hour-or-longer set instead of 60 minutes. ¥3,500–¥4,500 entry. Open until ~05:00.
• Liquidroom (Ebisu). Liquidroom is the live-band counterpart to Womb's electronic emphasis. Many Fuji Rock guitar-band acts do a Monday Tokyo show at Liquidroom — the booking pattern is consistent year-over-year. ¥4,500–¥7,000 ticketed shows. Doors typically 19:00, set finishes 22:30, and the Liquidroom afterparty scene continues at small Ebisu cocktail bars (Bar Trench is the canonical post-Liquidroom destination for the older crowd).
• Aoyama Hachi and Aoyama Tunnel. Both run the Fuji Rock Monday electronic-extended-set programming. These are the smaller, more curated venues for the artists who played the White Stage or the Field of Heaven (both stages skew toward the global underground — Caribou, James Holden, Tirzah, Beatrice Dillon territory). ¥2,500–¥4,000 entry.
• Mogra (Akihabara). The anime/breakcore/leftfield-electronic crossover venue — the natural Tokyo home for any Fuji Rock act in the experimental tent. Smaller crowd, ¥2,500 entry. Worth knowing if your festival highlight was, say, a Black Midi-adjacent set or a footwork artist.
• Eleven (Nishi-Azabu, formerly the Yellow building's later iteration) or the post-Eleven small-club circuit. Small, fluctuating venues — check the schedule the week-of.

The Sunday "if you're already back early" plan

If you cut the festival short and made the 21:30 Sunday shinkansen — some people do, especially if they arrived Friday and already saw their priority artists — you can have a viable Sunday Tokyo night. Plan for a 23:30 Tokyo arrival and a Womb or Aoyama Hachi Sunday-of-Fuji-Rock door. This is the rare case but it does happen.

The other Sunday-night option is to do nothing and recover. Sunday is a respectable night to write off. The Tokyo bath culture is set up perfectly for this — a 90-minute session at Thermae-Yu in Shinjuku or Spa LaQua in Tokyo Dome, then a soba dinner, then sleep. You will be a much better person on Monday for it. See Tokyo Sento and Onsen Bath After Nightlife for the recovery framework.

Wristband mechanics for Fuji Rock

Fuji Rock's wristband-discount program is more limited than Summer Sonic's. The festival has historically partnered with a smaller list of Tokyo venues — Womb is the most consistent partner, plus a few music bars in Shibuya and Daikanyama. Discounts are smaller (¥500 off, not free) and the program ends Wednesday after the festival. Keep your wristband on through Monday's Tokyo afterparty night and at least into Tuesday for the daytime shopping/coffee venues that participate.

The bigger Fuji Rock benefit is informal — wristbands trigger conversations in line at every Tokyo club Monday night. The wristband is the festival's social signal in Tokyo for the week. If you're solo and looking to find the rest of the festival crowd, leave it on.

The Year-Round Festival Aftermath Circuit

The August festival window is the densest, but Tokyo runs festival-tied afterparty programming throughout the year. The pattern repeats: a Kanto-region festival ends, the international acts on the bill have one or two scheduled Tokyo dates the same week, the official-partner venues run themed nights, and the city's nightlife scene catches the full festival crowd as it cycles through. Knowing the year-round circuit means you can plan a Tokyo trip around any of these events, not just August.

Ultra Japan — September

Ultra Japan runs at Odaiba Ultra Park in mid-September, traditionally a 2-day Saturday-Sunday EDM festival pulling 100,000+ over the weekend. Ultra is the easiest of the festivals to convert into a Tokyo afterparty — Odaiba is a 25-minute return to Tokyo Station and the festival ends at 21:00 each night, leaving the entire late-night window open.

The Ultra afterparty scene is heavily concentrated at:

• major Shinjuku megaclub Zero Tokyo Mainland (Shin-Kiba) — Ultra's most consistent venue partner. major Shinjuku megaclub Zero Tokyo runs the official afterparty most years, headliner-tier bookings. The Ultra-week major Shinjuku megaclub Zero Tokyo schedule is the heaviest non-NYE programming of the year. ¥4,500–¥6,000.
• V2 Tokyo (Roppongi) — Roppongi's flagship mainstream-EDM venue. The unofficial Ultra afterparty crowd lands here in volume each year. ¥3,500. Easier door than major Shinjuku megaclub Zero Tokyo.
• Camelot (Shibuya, when open) — the Shibuya equivalent of V2, EDM-leaning, foreign-friendly. ¥3,500.
• Womb (Shibuya) — for the electronic underground crowd that wants to escape the mainstream-EDM Ultra crowd while still catching Ultra-week DJs. Same booking pattern as Summer Sonic.

For Ultra-specific venue lists and the deeper rundown, see our Ultra Japan Festival Guide which goes year-by-year on the venue partner list.

EDC Japan — Spring (varies)

EDC Japan (Electric Daisy Carnival) has run intermittently in Tokyo at ZOZO Marine Stadium in spring (April–May), drawn from the broader Insomniac global-EDC circuit. It's the most polished EDM festival to come to Japan and pulls a younger, more international crowd than Ultra. The afterparty programming follows the Summer Sonic template — Womb, V2, plus a heavier-than-usual Ni-chōme queer-club afterparty scene. EDC's date and presence in Japan has been irregular; check the current year's schedule before planning.

Domestic festivals — year-round

The smaller domestic-music festival circuit also generates Tokyo afterparties on a rolling basis: Music Circus (Osaka, in some years touring through Chiba), Sunset Live (Fukuoka, smaller draw), Rock in Japan Festival (Hitachi, Ibaraki — the August Rock in Japan window often overlaps with Summer Sonic), Rising Sun Rock Festival (Hokkaido, August). All of these generate post-festival Tokyo dates for the international acts on their bills, and the Tokyo nightlife scene catches the same festival-tourist crowd cycling through. The effect is more diffuse than Fuji Rock or Summer Sonic — fewer venues run festival-themed programming — but the artist booking pattern (festival set on the weekend, Tokyo extended set on the Monday or Tuesday) is consistent.

The hidden circuit — DJ "secret" sets

The unofficial layer that no festival site advertises: most foreign DJs visiting Japan for a festival booking add a small Tokyo set in the same week, booked by an individual promoter and announced 1–4 weeks before the event. These sets show up on:

• Resident Advisor (RA) — the standard Western source for electronic music event listings, including the Tokyo dates.
• Promoter Twitter accounts — Mogra's, Womb's, the Vent crew's, the smaller Aoyama and Daikanyama promoters. Most of the Tokyo electronic underground books through these accounts and the listings appear in Japanese only.
• Time Out Tokyo's club listings — partial English-language coverage; misses the smaller venues.
• Tokyo Drift Magazine and similar small-circulation outlets — quarterly coverage of the best non-festival Tokyo dates around festival weekends.

The rule of thumb: if a foreign electronic artist played a Saturday festival set, they're 70% likely to be playing a smaller Tokyo venue set on the Monday or Tuesday. Search for their name plus "Tokyo" plus the festival date range. The set will be announced. It's just announced in Japanese.

Festival Wristband Discounts — How They Work in Practice

The wristband-discount system is one of the most under-used parts of the festival-week Tokyo experience. The headline mechanics:

• Keep your wristband on. Most discounts apply to wristband-wearers, not to ticket-holders or app-users. Cutting your wristband off Sunday afternoon means losing the discount Monday and Tuesday.
• Don't wash it off. The wristband is meant to be sweat-, rain-, and pool-proof, but soap and aggressive scrubbing will damage the printed branding. Pat dry, don't scrub.
• The discount is usually at the door, not online. You pay the door price as listed on the venue's website, then show the wristband for the discount. A few venues offer pre-discounted ticket links via the festival site, but the door route is more common.
• Free-drink tickets are usually a separate paper ticket given at the festival, not wristband-tied. Some festivals (Summer Sonic recently) have moved to digital app-based partner drink tickets. Check the festival's "Aftersonic" or "Fuji Rocker's Lounge" partner page for the current year's mechanics.
• Window: 2–4 days post-festival. Most wristband discounts apply Sunday night through Wednesday morning. Some venues honor wristbands for the full week after the festival — call ahead or check their Twitter.
• Common discounts at partner clubs: ¥500–¥1,500 off entry, one free drink, occasionally line skip. Smaller bars often offer one free first drink with a wristband.

The non-monetary value of the wristband is also real. Tokyo nightlife is a gentle social environment — strangers don't usually start conversations in line — but a festival wristband is a conversation starter. People in the line at Womb on Fuji Rock Monday will literally turn to ask which sets you saw. If you're traveling solo and want to find the rest of the festival crowd, the wristband is the pass.

Hotel and Recovery — The Other Half of the Plan

A festival weekend is not just about the night. The Tokyo recovery infrastructure is part of why the city works for festival weekends: the bath houses, the konbini food, the 6 AM ramen joints, and the daytime hotel ergonomics are as important as the late-night clubs. Plan the recovery as carefully as the night.

Hotel pick

For a Summer Sonic weekend, base in Marunouchi or Yaesu (1-minute walk to Tokyo Station, easy commute to Chiba) or Shibuya (further from the festival but closer to the afterparty circuit). For Fuji Rock, base in Shinjuku or Tokyo Station-area for shinkansen access; Shibuya works too if you don't mind the morning commute back to Tokyo Station for the Joetsu Line.

What matters in a festival-week hotel:

• Late check-out — Monday morning return from Naeba means a 09:00–11:00 hotel arrival; you'll want to crash before the night. Pay for the late check-out option or extend the booking by half a day.
• Coin laundry on-site or nearby — festival-mud is real and your clothes will need a wash before the Monday Tokyo night. Apartment-style hotels (mimaru, Hotel Mystays, Citadines) are the best format for this.
• Walkable to a 24-hour ramen or konbini — you will want food at 03:00 Monday morning. Ichiran is open 24 hours in most central locations; the Lawson and 7-Eleven density across central Tokyo means food is never more than 4 minutes away.

Bath and recovery

The Tokyo public bath culture is built for the festival recovery problem. Plan a 2-hour bath session into your Monday afternoon before the night:

• Thermae-Yu (Shinjuku) — large, modern super-sento with sauna, outdoor bath, restaurant. ¥3,000 entry, bring nothing — they provide everything. 11:00 to 09:00 next day.
• Spa LaQua (Tokyo Dome) — premium, more expensive (¥3,500), spa-level facilities, longer options to extend into Monday evening if you want to stay until 22:00.
• Times Spa Resta (Otemachi) — closer to Tokyo Station, more business-oriented, similar facilities.
• Ofuro no Osama (smaller chain, multiple Tokyo locations) — cheaper sentō (¥800–¥1,000) for the budget version.

A Monday afternoon bath session is the single highest-leverage move for a Fuji Rock recovery — you will be physically functional for the Monday Tokyo night in a way you won't be without it.

The Monday breakfast / lunch

Monday morning post-Fuji Rock: aim for miso soup, rice, fish. The Western breakfast a hotel buffet provides is the wrong move when you're recovering from three days of festival food. Hit a teishoku (set-meal) restaurant — Yayoi-ken, Ootoya, or any small neighborhood teishoku place — for the rice + grilled fish + miso soup format. Or a soba lunch (Sarashina Horii in Azabu, Yabu Soba in Kanda for the classic). The Japanese-breakfast template is medicinal for festival recovery.

Where Festival-Goers Go Wrong

Five mistakes I see every August in the Tokyo afterparty scene:

1. Trying to make Sunday night work for Fuji Rock. It doesn't. The shinkansen logistics rule it out. Plan Monday night as your Tokyo night, not Sunday. (See above for the rare exception.)
2. Cutting the wristband off too early. The wristband is your discount and your social pass for 2–4 days. Leave it on through at least Tuesday.
3. Showing up at Womb at 02:30 on Sunday. The Sunday-night door at most Tokyo clubs cuts off entry around 02:00–02:30. If you've spent two hours showering and changing after the festival, you'll miss the door. Aim for a 23:30–00:30 Sunday-night entry, not later.
4. Going to major Shinjuku megaclub Zero Tokyo "for the night" without checking the shuttle bus schedule. major Shinjuku megaclub Zero Tokyo is Shin-Kiba — there's no last train back to central Tokyo. Either commit to staying until the 06:00 shuttle, or take the dedicated major Shinjuku megaclub Zero Tokyo shuttle bus from Shibuya (last one back is around 04:30). Multiple festival visitors get stranded at Shin-Kiba taxi stands every August because they forgot this.
5. Not booking the Liquidroom Monday show in advance. Fuji Rock Monday at Liquidroom sells out 2–3 weeks out. If your favorite Fuji Rock guitar band is doing a Monday Tokyo show, the announcement comes 6 weeks before the festival and the tickets disappear in 48 hours. Watch for the announcement.

Cross-References

This guide pairs with several other deep-dives on the site:

• Ultra Japan Festival Guide for the September festival's official-partner venue list.
• Music Festivals Tokyo for the year-round festival calendar across Japan.
• Top Tokyo Nightclubs for the full venue map referenced throughout this guide (Womb, V2, Vent, Aoyama Hachi, Liquidroom).
• Summer Nightlife Tokyo for the broader July–August Tokyo nightlife context — rooftop bars, beer gardens, the seasonal venues that open only for the summer window.
• Last Train & Night Transit Playbook for the late-night transport mechanics referenced in the festival-return logistics sections.
• Omoide Yokocho and Nonbei Yokocho for the recovery-night yokocho options.
• Tokyo Sento and Onsen Bath After Nightlife for the festival-recovery bath itinerary referenced above.

If you're planning a festival-week Tokyo trip and have a specific artist or venue question that the year's announced schedule doesn't answer yet, the answer is almost always: it'll be announced 4–6 weeks before the festival, in Japanese, on Twitter. Watch the venue accounts (@WOMB_TOKYO, @ageHa_official, @VENT_OMOTESANDO, @aoyamahachi) and the promoter accounts. The Tokyo afterparty scene is dense, well-curated, and almost entirely undocumented in English. This guide is the closest thing to a roadmap in advance — but the real schedule is on Twitter, the Saturday-of-the-festival.