Jazz Radio with a Live Tokyo Clock

Vinyl-bar reverence and Shinjuku late sets — Tokyo jazz on exact JST, poured over ice.

Tokyo may love jazz more carefully than anywhere on earth. The jazz kissa treats a record like tea ceremony; Shinjuku's Pit Inn has hosted half a century of serious sets; and a certain novelist ran a jazz bar before he ran a career — the city's devotion is canon.

This station plays like a good vinyl bar: pristine hard-bop and modal sides, the occasional Japanese pressing warmth, ice knocking softly in a glass somewhere off-mic. The JST clock — exact, immutable — presides like a master behind the counter.

For midnight chapters, whiskey highballs, and listeners who believe silence between tracks is part of the music.