Bar Martha, Tokyo, where the customer isn’t always right www.theguardian.com

Follow these simple edicts and you’ll thoroughly enjoy this idiosyncratic barThere are few places in Tokyo as polarising as Bar Martha.
Photograph: Oscar BoydBar Martha is what is known in Japan as a listening bar, where music comes first and talking a definite second.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Oscar BoydThose who talk too loudly or disturb the atmosphere are liable to be unceremoniously thrown out.
[Bar Martha] is about what I like doing and the kind of place I want to run.”What Fukuyama likes is music.
Certainly, Bar Martha is not for everyone, but if you’re prepared to follow the rules, it could just be the best bar in Tokyo.