Southbound is the new taproom/bottle shop for the beer importer Cardinal Trading. So that probably gives you a good idea of what to expect from it. It’s situated by the river near Hinodecho station in Yokohama, not far from plenty of other bars and well within walking distance. I popped in briefly during their pre-opening…
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…
Written by James Niku to Mugi opened relatively recently in Hatagaya (about one minute from Gremlin) and it definitely has its own style that sets it apart from other craft beer bars. You take your shoes off on the way in and wear a pair of the slippers provided. The bar, actually I’d call it…
It’s taken me a while but I’ve finally made it to the new Mikkeller bar, just over the other side of the Yamanote line from the Dogenzaka branch. Distance wise, it’s not at all far, but when you compare the two neighbourhoods it feels like it could be a lot further. Mikkeller Kiosk/Bar is on…
Post by James Carbon Brews is a Hong Kong Brewery and this is their Tokyo taproom / bar. All the beers are brewed in Hong Kong and shipped over. The owner of Carbon Brews actually lives in Tokyo. The bar doesn’t honestly look very impressive from the outside but once you go in it’s a…
Recently the north of Shibuya-ku has had a lot of new places opening. A few of them have made it on to digest posts, some are still yet to be visited but Pintology having 2nd Story Ale Works’ Italian Pils on tap encouraged me to tick this one off the list and get it on…
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…
Today we’re in a new neighbourhood for Tokyo Beer Drinker and we’re at another shopping centre food court beer bar. I always say that the thought of this in the UK where I’m from wouldn’t inspire a great deal of confidence, but the truth is food courts are a much more pleasant experience in Japan…
You wait months for a Beer Scissors post to come along and then suddenly two turn up, one right after the other. The 2nd Story tap takeover was split over the two branches of Scissors and after a fun time at the Ikejiri branch we decided we should probably hoover up the other five taps…
Today we are getting off the train at a previously unvisited station. Well, actually I walked there, so not really. And of course I can’t speak for my readers’ Tokyo station visiting past so maybe it’s wrong on that account too. If you don’t live in, or haven’t visited the area before, Ikejiri Ohashi is…