For 2025 we have prepared an exciting countdown party that matches the spirit of the sleepless city and special full course menus for celebrating the new year peacefully in dining spaces high above the bustle below fors the restaurants of the two hotels that opened last year at TOKYU KABUKICHO TOWER.

We invite you to enjoy the turn of the year with friends, family and the other special people in your life at these two hotels in TOKYU KABUKICHO TOWER.

Enjoy an extraordinary experience in an amazing location commanding spectacular views of the city from 200 meters above ground. Delectable winter vegetables and other select seasonal ingredients from across Japan together with a dinner fish dish of rare and exclusive longtooth grouper are transformed into exquisite course dishes befitting of the New Year's holiday season.
This year Restaurant Bellustar offers you a blissful and luxurious time to reflect on the end of the old year and the start of the new one.

An exclusive dinner course incorporating an abundance of lavish ingredients hand selected by our chef and sumptuously prepared to match the New Year's holiday season for your enjoyment at counter seats overlooking the Shinjuku sub center at sunset and the city skyline at night.
We invite you to savor the best part of teppanyaki Being able to revel up close in the sounds and smells of ingredients being prepared for your enjoyment at their most delicious moment.

Ring in the New Year with live music on the hotel's top floor, while enjoying unlimited Charles Heidsieck champagne and carefully selected Bellustar Drinks (SAKE Selection, Japanese Whisky, Japanese Gin, etc.) along with a selection of buffet-style finger food. Please enjoy this special memorable time as you celebrate the beginning of the New Year in style.

Experience the Japanese tradition of good luck Toshikoshi (New Year) soba noodles served with tempura.

An electrifying countdown event to welcome 2025 that will feature an exciting DJ performance.
Spend a special evening celebrating the open of the new year in the city that never sleeps.

The perfect plan for gathering with friends and family. Enjoy chef-selected shared plates that give festive color to your group’s table with the important people in your life.

■Complimentary Sake

We will be offering complementary Japanese sake to celebrate the new year and express our wishes for the health and good fortune of our guests.

We will present our greetings for the new year followed by rice cake making to express our wishes for the health of our guests.

The lion dance, performed to dispel evil and illness, is considered a bringer of good luck during the first three days of the new year. After showing guests its various aspects, from a dynamic and powerful dancing wild beast to grooming itself like a cat and even doing stunts such as a headstand called shachiage, the lion will make its way around to gently bite the heads of spectators. This is thought to purify and drive off evil influences and is considered extremely lucky because of wordplay that links the Japanese word kamitsuku (“to bite”) with the phrase kami ga tsuku, which refers to receiving the protection or blessing of the gods.

Tsugaru shamisen duo Masato Nakahara × Manami Kawasaki will present dynamic and powerful New Year’s Day performances. These two up-and-coming artists who are working to spread their interpretation of the shamisen influenced by their unique musical tastes and the incorporation of a variety of music, will present Japanese folk songs and their own original pieces to create a once-in-a-lifetime performance together with the audience that can be enjoyed by all.

Performer Profile
Masato Nakahara × Manami Kawasaki
Masato and Manami began performing as a duo after meeting at the Waseda University Tsugaru shamisen club MITSUDOMOE in 2015. They have written numerous original pieces that incorporate rock, metal, classical, folk and a variety of other music.
“Tsudoi” a Tsugaru shamisen performance group, which they founded in 2021 and are both members of, has to date taken top place five times in national competitions with its performances of Tsugaru folk ensemble songs.
With their activities divided between performances of their original music and traditional folk songs, Masato and Manami are a promising duo that is exploring the possibilities of the shamisen and is working to spread its own interpretation of the instrument as influenced by unique musical tastes.
In July 2024, they took first prize for the second year in a row in the Duo category at the All-Japan Tsugaru Shamisen Competition Nagoya Tournament.

In celebration of the Chinese New Year, guests will be treated to performances of the Chinese lion dance, which is symbolic of bringing good luck and driving away evil and incorporates a variety of stunts, as well as Bian Lian (“face changing”), a traditional dramatic art passed down in China’s Sichuan Province where the performer changes between masks representing men, women and animals one after the other the instant they put their hand to their face.

*Prices shown include a service charge (HOTEL GROOVE SHINJUKU 13%, BELLUSTAR TOKYO 15%) and consumption tax.
*As required by law we do not serve alcohol to guests who will be driving or who are under the age of 20.
*Please inform the hotel staff in advance if you have food allergies.
*Photos are for illustrative purposes.
*Menus are subject to change depending on ingredient availability.
*Operating hours and other information may be subject to change.