My recent attempt to drink a Japanese craft beer in every ward of Tokyo over the course of 2022 (#beerineveryku) left me at a bit of a loss when it came to Nakano. Despite being next to Shinjuku and therefore pretty central, Nakano has a bit of a dearth of craft beer places. There are…
Libushi Bashamichi is the relatively new brewpub and taproom for the Nagano based brewery AJB in central Yokohama. Although you can get AJB beer in quite a few places around the Kanto area, this new place gives you the opportunity to try plenty of taps of their beer in one place without having to go…
Danchi kitchen is a new place opened up in Nishi Urawa and is a community project with, I believe, some funding from the local government behind it. The place is a cafe, shared kitchen and brewery. For those who don’t know, danchi is the name for the blocks of public housing in Japan, normally dating…
A quick post today and this time it will be really quick. I’ve written before about a 7-11 in Chitose Funabashi that has a good beer selection. At the time I wrote that, I was told about this branch, halfway out to sea and about a ten minute walk from Bashamichi station. It’s worth the…
Written by James 21 Brew Cave is bar restaurant and future brew pub that opened fairly recently in Hibarigaoka. An area that, to the best of my knowledge, has little or no craft beer options. The first thing you notice as you go in is a couple of large silver tanks for brewing beer. In…
Today a place that has just been opened by a regular drinker at Gremlin. Biruya Koizumi is a bit further west of Hatagaya though. It’s about a 10 min walk from Chofu station on the Keio line. Considering Chofu is a area with quite a lot of shops and restaurants, there is a dearth of…
Written by James Number 6 is a cafe bar in Ningyocho. The name comes from the fact that there are six taps of craft beer. They were all domestic when I went. Number 6 also has good coffee and Nihonshu, but I won’t write about these here. On my visit there was a Fresh Hop…
In the past when it came to beer, Gunma was mainly known for a few fairly inaccessible old style ‘tourist attraction with brewery’ places. There’s one which is a glass factory (Tsukiyono) and one is a German style village in the mountains (Akagi). There’s also what was Donryu Dream in Ota which was more along…
Previously, we’ve only had a few individual Kofu posts on here, but seeing as I’m now doing round ups for prefectures that I visit and I have a couple of new Kofu places, I thought it was about time to do a Yamanashi one. There’s not going to be anything outside of Kofu at this…
A recent trip to Ise Jingu with some beery stop offs on the way back to Nagoya has created this Mie round up post. It seems that there are actually quite a few places to drink in Mie. I didn’t get to all of them but hopefully this will give you something to think about…