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…
I was slightly disappointed when I went to add a new place to my Gifu round up and found that I hadn’t bothered making a Gifu round up. Last time we were here it was Yell Ale or nowhere in Gifu city. Now there seems to be a lot of new(ish) places, but we were…
Another football trip where I could use one of those foreigner only Shinakansen passes meant that I had an opportunity to visit some places that I might otherwise not have been able to go to. Nagano has a lot of famous breweries. Well, famous in a craft beer kind of way. But most of these…
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…
A recent trip to Nagoya for a football game that got canceled left me with a bit of spare time and gave me an opportunity to pop over into Mie to visit that prefecture for the first time. Given that I went to a brewpub that is in a flower park that is in the…
In the past I’ve grouped bars together in one post for cities that are a bit outside what would usually be considered the Tokyo Beer Drinker remit. I then separated them painstakingly having decided that way would be better. A recent trip to Shizuoka has convinced me that the former was better so here is…
QUICK UPDATE: On our last visit Fiesta Garcia now are mainly selling their own beers under the brewery name Garcia Brew. They were in pretty modern styles, so if you’re heading here to drink Bayern Meister you might be disappointed. Not sure if they still have it. The food is still lovely by the way….
Our second and final stop in Matsumoto was another brewery, Bacca Brewing. The Matsumoto Brewery Taproom was small but this one was even smaller, being located in a former barbershop. There are a few other beer places in town that I hope to check out if Matsumoto stay in J1 next year or we get…
A new team in J1 means a new away fixture for me and therefore an opportunity to visit some new bars in a new town. I guess I’m pushing things a bit with this post and the next one, as it takes quite a while to get to Matsumoto from Tokyo. However, given that these…