It’s been quite a long time since I’ve been to Nara and I think all of the places mentioned below opened since my last visit. Nara is a nice touristy city to visit but is surprisingly not as accessible as you might expect given its proximity to Kyoto and Osaka. I think there are a…
Hiroshima is a city which has had some decent bars in it for a few years now, and now seems to be growing when it comes to beer, perhaps with the return of tourists in mind. Perhaps not all of the places will be to everyone’s taste though. But I don’t suppose beer is anyone’s…
If you ever asked me to name a city in Japan that is woefully lacking in good beer places considering its size and reputation, I’d almost certainly say Kobe. I don’t know why it’s so lacking. And you may be thinking ‘I don’t know why he’s put it on here if that’s true’, and you…
This post is a work in progress, so please bear that in mind before having your mind boggled by the complete lack of information. There are a few beer places in Okayama city and some places elsewhere in the prefecture but I have absolutely no idea about them and for that reason I’m not going…
Written by Rick I was going home from school like I usually do by bike and while on a bridge crossing the Yamanote line between Otsuka and Ikebukuro I happened to see a shop with the neon sign saying ‘CDs Records Beer’ next to the tracks. Noting the condition of the sign and general state…
Crowd was our final stop on our mini eastern Tokyo pub crawl. In spite of it being near a station with a similar name, it’s not that close to Keisei Koiwa Craft Saketen. It was about a 20 minute walk and then one stop on the train from Koiwa to Shin Koiwa. So I guess…
Keisei Koiwa Craft Saketen (or KKCB) was our second stop on our east Tokyo pub crawl. For some reason this place has always held a strange allure for me. I say an allure, but I didn’t really know much about it and had never visited so I guess it was more of an inexplicable urge…
In my ongoing quest to complete a new year’s resolution that I set myself for 2021 but failed to complete due to the ongoing pandemic, and then restarted at the beginning of this year, I have been venturing to some places a bit of my usual beaten track. Tokyo is a huge city and it’s…
It’s been a while now since the TDM Aoyama taproom closed and I’m sure that plenty of people have been eagerly awaiting the opening of their new Shimokitazawa branch. There’s so much new development going on in Shimokita at the moment that it’s not going to help you if I say that this place is…
It’s been a long time since we had anywhere in Ota-ku on here. The previous place I visited in the ward has long since closed. Perhaps it’s a ward of Tokyo that sometimes gets slightly overlooked, even though it might be the Tokyo ward in which many people first set foot in (it has Haneda…