With three places in totally different parts of the prefecture on here having proper write ups, I thought that visiting a new brewery in Ibaraki would give me a good opportunity to finally start a round up post. (Which doesn’t completely make sense, but it’s much easier to do digest posts for non Tokyo places,…
Albirex Niigata’s return to J1 meant that once again I was off to Niigata for an away game. It’s been a while so was nice to go back! The game was perhaps one of the worst performances I’ve ever seen from my team though, so that part wasn’t much fun. But we did get the…
Written by James After climbing Mount Tsukuba (for work as it happens) I decided to check out Tsukuba Brewery. The first thing to note is that it’s quite hard to get to. Even if you are at Tsukuba station, it’s still a 3km walk or taxi ride away. That said, if you are in Tsukuba…
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…
There’s not much to mention in this round up. It’s quite hard to find bars in Fukushima prefecture or Fukushima city that sell anything more than the odd craft beer. But there are a few breweries in the prefectural capital city so if you’re in the area there are at least some places to visit….
Today we visit Akita on my mission to cover loads of places all over Japan in a slapdash manner. To be fair though, I’ve been to Akita a couple of time so I at least have the experience of a repeat visit. If you think of Akita city, Aqula is probably the first beer thing…
Today we’re moving on to Miyagi. There is a slight problem though in that I have already done posts for places in Sendai which is in Miyagi. Rather than delete and repost or move stuff around, I’m just going to list those places on here with links to the other blog posts. Hope that’s not…
Given that there’s not a great deal of opportunity to go to new bars at the moment with our ever extending and increasingly ineffective state of emergency (29 weeks out of 33 so far this year, fact fans), I thought that I might do some round up posts of places out of Tokyo that are…
I’m not sure if starting these new kind of posts is a good idea to be honest, but I’m going to try one anyway. My normal remit for places on this blog is that they need to be at least reasonably easy to get to from Tokyo on a train. Of course Hokkaido doesn’t fit…
Today, a place that stretches the Tokyo Beer Drinker map in a slightly new direction. Murmur is one of a couple of new breweries that has started fairly recently in Nikko. This seems to make a lot of sense, given that Nikko is jammed full of tourists and if there’s one thing we all know…