East Tokyo brewpub adventure part 4 (Part 1 here, part 2 here and part 3 here) I initially had only planned to visit three brewpubs as I didn’t want to overdo it and didn’t want to spend all of my monthly money in one night out and rule out any more places being added to…
East Tokyo brewpub adventure part 3 (Part 1 here, part 2 here and part 4 here) After a brief / 25 minute (delete depending on your point of view) walk , I made it to On Tap Edo Tokyo Beer. Even though I had mainly planned my route considering the ease of travel, I ended…
East Tokyo brewpub adventure part 2 (Part 1 here, part 3 here and part 4 here) The second stop on my east Tokyo brewpub crawl was Beer Vista, not far from Kiyosumi Shirakawa station. The contrast between Beer Vista and Pherment was quite stark! In fact maybe I could just say that if you just…
East Tokyo brewpub adventure part 1 (Part 2 here, part 3 here and part 4 here) It’s maybe a little bit late, but I feel like I’m starting 2026 at breakneck speed. After adding a couple of Hatagaya places last week, a free evening when I was kind towards the east of Tokyo presented the…
Bathe Yotsume Brewery officially opened on December 16, 2023, and is operated by a sento(public bath) near Kinshicho. I first saw their bath (Kogane-yu) in a magazine article. Thecombination of sento and beer is not so new, and there’s Kamigata Beer in Osaka, whichrenovated a sento into a brewery. However, running a sento and a…
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…
Post by James MOTS BEER PARTY is a bar I’ve seen on a few Japanese friends’ SNS so I decided to check it out.The bar is basically a renovated Minka (residence) and it is quite small. There were four counter seats and several stools which I think could be used if more customers come. There…
Today, another standing bar, this time run by a beer importer based here in Tokyo. Inn Beers run the Warrior Celt in Ueno and import British stuff. You may have recently noticed that there are suddenly a lot more hyped UK breweries’ beers available in Japan and this company is the reason behind this. Although…