Today a recently opened place in Machida. I don’t think I’ve ever been drinking in Machida in the 12 years I’ve lived in Japan. In the past there didn’t seem to be any particularly exciting bars in that area, but when I recently decided to head down there I thought I’d just have a check…
In my twelve years in Japan I have now been to 45 of the 47 prefectures. The only remaining ones are Ehime and Okinawa. Fukui was the 45th one I visited and I was only there for a couple of hours. But a couple of hours was long enough for a beer stop and in…
In my ongoing personal quest to ‘complete’ Japan I recently visited a couple of Shikoku prefectures kind of en route between two football games. Our trip thankfully coincided with the fairly recent opening of a fancy new brewpub in Kochi. As we only visited Kochi city, right now this post will be quite short, but…
When we booked our trip to Shikoku we were really hoping the new 2nd Story Aleworks taproom would be open. Sadly it wasn’t, but we still had a really nice time in Tokushima city, mainly due to 2nd Story recommending Sakaneko, which was a truly amazing place. Much like other recent round up posts, this…
Enjoy is a place that I have walked past a few times but had never entered till this visit. I’d always been intrigued by some of the things on their taplist, (which they post outside, an excellent idea, I think!), and the look of some of the bottles in their fridge. This time I was…
Today a quick post about what I was surprised to find out seems to be a new iteration of a well known and possibly not particularly loved old chain. Sake-ya Kitami is a really swish looking place under the Odakyu line tracks near Kitami station. Here’s the big reveal – it’s a branch of the…
The second place we went to in Hamura was Beer Bar Wildz. I really want to say Wildz by name and Wildz by nature but given that we went in shortly after opening, I can’t say if that is in any way accurate. Wildz seems to have recently celebrated their 13th anniversary, which is really…
When I was searching for places to drink Japanese craft beer in Hamura, this was one of only two places I could find. The other was Wildz, but the only similarity between the two is probably that they’re near the same station. Little Crop is a little further from Ozaku station, but still not more…
Before this visit as part of my ongoing attempt to drink a Japanese craft beer in every part of Tokyo, I’d only ever had Fat Barley’s beers at the Machida version of the Oedo beer fest. I wasn’t quite sure about them at that time, so I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this…
Canon Brewing is a relatively recently opened brewpub in between Shimokitazawa and Sangenjaya, quite close to Small World and Mangosteen. I’d considered visiting a few times before I made it there, and a couple of times it wasn’t open when I thought it would be, but I’m pretty sure that was my problem and not…