PIT Bar is a shot bar built for people who want to talk cars, 30 seconds on foot from Akasaka Mitsuke station in the basement of the Sakatani Building. Owner Yuta Yamamoto opened it in December 2025 as an indoor gathering place for enthusiasts in a city with few of them, and the room is styled on Formula 1 after parties and garages: about 96 square metres with 35 seats across a counter and private seating.
Two things set it apart from a themed bar with posters. There is a racing simulator on the floor, and a Pit Stop Challenge where you swap a real race worn tyre against the clock. The drinks lean into it: the standard list of beer, lemon sour, oolong highball, gin and tonic, tequila sunrise and rum and coke starts at ¥1,000, and the originals are named for car colours, engines and F1 liveries, the Rosso Corsa Martini and the V12 Majesty among them. Food is light, mixed nuts and fries from ¥400.
It is a destination in itself rather than a meet venue, open from 5pm until 4am, so it works as the last stop after a Tokyo car day or the first one on a night out.
