Today a quick post about what I was surprised to find out seems to be a new iteration of a well known and possibly not particularly loved old chain. Sake-ya Kitami is a really swish looking place under the Odakyu line tracks near Kitami station. Here’s the big reveal – it’s a branch of 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…
My ongoing project saw me head west again and this time it was to Hachioji, another place I’d never been before, but one which I had of course heard of. Part of the reason for this is perhaps because of Prost, which has been around for quite a while now. I think they recently celebrated…
From the people who brought you Bucket, we now have Progress on the other side of Musashi Kosugi station to their first bar. I visited on a pre-opening day and enjoyed it but then somehow forgot to write it up on here. Now I’m remedying that. I thought a Friday night football game would be…
Stop number four on my Chuo line pub crawl and there was something of a feeling that I was building towards the highlight of the day. I’m pleased to say that Sakamichi didn’t let me down and was a really nice place to have some really nice beers. I’m getting old and I’m perpetually skint,…
My second stop along the Chuo line was Musashisakai station, to visit 26K Brewery. If I hadn’t been checking my map closely I might have missed it, as the taproom is inside a multipurpose space combined with a coffee roaster and cafe. I was a bit unsure, but when I peered through the door and…
Today, a newly opened place in Kamakura, and this time it actually is newly opened, being only a couple of weeks old when I visited. Yorocco Beer Pub Sasame Za is the new taproom for the Yorocco brewery. Until now, if you wanted to drink plenty of Yorocco beers on tap in the same place…
Today, a place I probably thought I would never make it to. Kawaguchi isn’t very far from Tokyo, but at the same time, it wasn’t really on my list of places to go. From my very limited experience of going there, it seemed like quite a nice place, so more fool me for not putting…
Today we visit the first iBrew bar outside of Tokyo. Some people have long been calling for an iBrew in Yokohama and their dream has now come true. I visited the bar on the first Saturday it was open as I had a football match in Yokohama later that afternoon. The match was terrible so…
In The House is another fairly new place in the Harajuku / Gaienmae area and it seemed pretty popular when we popped in early evening on a Saturday. Here’s what you need to know. This was another nice place to visit in an area booming with craft beer bars. When it comes to things being…