Ranked shortlist · 10 of 493 bars
Best bars in Saitama
The 10 most notable bars in Saitama, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
串カツ田中志木店
埼玉県新座市東北２丁目３７−１７
188 m from Shiki Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.327, percentile 100 of 493
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2
力大宮西口店
大宮区桜木町1丁目3-2
179 m from JR East Ōmiya Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.326, percentile 99.8 of 493
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3
音楽準備室
4 Chome-4-3 Higashiomiya
145 m from Higashi-Ōmiya Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.325, percentile 99.59 of 493
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4
R&B BAR B station
南越谷1丁目12-6
103 m from Shin-Koshigaya Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.320, percentile 99.39 of 493
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5
The Bar Alcazar
大宮区宮町1-45
260 m from Ōmiya Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.319, percentile 99.19 of 493
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6
Beer Hunting Urawa
Kitaurawa, 4 Chome−3−7 さいたま市浦和区北浦和 4-3-7 2F-D
177 m from Kita-Urawa Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.319, percentile 98.98 of 493
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7
せんとり・埼玉（炭火焼 もつ焼き/焼き鳥専門店）
袋山1179-12
115 m from Ōbukuro Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.317, percentile 98.78 of 493
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8
Darts UP Omiyaten
Nakacho, 1 Chome−1−1 大宮タウンビル 4F
168 m from JR East Ōmiya Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.317, percentile 98.58 of 493
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9
笑笑北朝霞駅前店
浜崎1丁目3-6
97 m from Kita-Asaka Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.317, percentile 98.37 of 493
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10
氷川ブリュワリー
大宮区高鼻町１－３６－１
610 m from Ōmiya Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.316, percentile 98.17 of 493
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).