DownBeat wrote in 2019 that the Pit Inn "is almost universally regarded as Japan's most important jazz club".

[5] By March of the following year, it was hosting live jazz every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and on other days was being let out to theatre groups and for happenings.

Many continue to play there regularly, including Terumasa Hino, Sadao Watanabe and Yōsuke Yamashita.

[9] The fortieth anniversary celebrations featured performances by Hino, Watanabe, Yamashita, Keiko Lee, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn and others, playing in a nearby rented hall, as the club was too small to accommodate all the fans.

[15] In 2003, it contained wooden pews and chairs, and "ceiling-high speakers angle[d] in to cover the entire audience space with crisp sound resolution and exceptional clarity".