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Kirin gives us a clue on how to get a bottle of its skyrocketing-price whisky for cheap
- Casey Baseel
Dec 3, 2018 - Tweet
Online prices for the soon-disappearing Fuji-sanroku Tarajuku Genshu 50 doubled in a day, but there’s still hope for those with shallow pockets.
Kirin will stop selling one of its most popular whiskies as Japanese spirit shortage continues
- Casey Baseel
Nov 29, 2018
Sales of more expensive substitute will continue as normal, though.
Man sues Tokyo wine tasting event for not allowing him to drink while operating a wheelchair
- Master Blaster
Nov 23, 2018
Valid safety concern or unjust discrimination?
- Japan
- (alcohol • controversy • disabilities • discrimination • lawsuit • Tokyo • Wheelchair • wine • wine tasting)
Evangelion Bar opening in Tokyo to soothe the rattled nerves of fans of the traumatizing anime
- Casey Baseel
Nov 10, 2018
You’ll feel better after downing a few Rei cocktails and eating rampaging Angel Sachiel.
- Japan
- (alcohol • anime • bars • Evangelion • food • izakaya • restaurants • themed restaurants • Tokyo)
We investigate which conveyor belt sushi restaurant is best for drinking alone, drowning regrets
- Scott Wilson
Nov 3, 2018
Kappa Sushi, Kura Sushi, and Sushiro. Which pairs best with contemplating past mistakes?
- Japan
- (alcohol • food • kaiten sushi • Kappa Sushi • Kura Sushi • SNJO • sushi • Sushiro)
Japanese ramen cocktail uses tonkotsu pork broth for alcoholic noodle flavour
- Oona McGee
Oct 23, 2018
A delicious recipe for ramen lovers to make at home.
- Japan
- (alcohol • cocktails • COK • cool • crazy • drinks • Noodles • ramen • tonkotsu • tonkotsu ramen • weird)
Take our quality-tested Disney Sea cocktail tour: no time to lose when it comes to booze!
- Katy Kelly
Oct 10, 2018
With Halloween just around the corner, it’s time to take a catalog of some of the finest seasonal cocktails available at Tokyo Disney Sea!
- Japan
- (alcohol • Amusement Parks • beer • cocktails • COK • Disney • SNOJ • tequila • Tokyo Disney Sea)
Totoro beer? Hayao Miyazaki draws new version of anime icon for Japanese craft beer label
- Casey Baseel
Oct 1, 2018
Two of Studio Ghibli’s co-founders team up for stylish microbrew promotion.
- Japan
- (alcohol • anime • beer • drinks • Hayao Miyazaki • Studio Ghibli • Toshio Suzuki • Totoro)
Japan has new sake Kit Kats produced by a 393-year-old Hyogo sake brewer
- Casey Baseel
Sep 21, 2018
The latest collaboration between the chocolate snacks and the Japanese spirit is almost four centuries in the making and uses one of the highest classes of sake.
- Japan
- (alcohol • chocolate • daiginjo • food • Kit Kats • nihonshu • sake • Sakura Masamune • sweets)
Tokyo restaurant that charges rude customers more sees dramatic increase in number of rude orders
- Casey Baseel
Aug 24, 2018
Intended penalty for bad manners backfires, prompts pub to make drastic change to its beer pricing policy.
- Japan
- (alcohol • all you can drink • beer • funny • izakaya • manners • pubs • restaurants • Tokyo • weird)
Major Tokyo train line stopped for one hour as passenger gets own head stuck under seat
- Master Blaster
Aug 3, 2018
Alcohol is believed to have played a role.
- Japan
- (accident • alcohol • drinking • Hamamatsucho Station • Tokyo • trains • weird • Yamanote line)
Japan to stop brewing Budweiser beer this year…Wait, Japan makes Budweiser?!?
- Casey Baseel
Jul 25, 2018
Here’s your last chance to taste made-in-Japan Budweiser.
Awesome Tokyo cafe’s less-than-a-buck beer is so cheap it’s almost criminal
- Casey Baseel
Jul 21, 2018
The name of the restaurant is Coffee Mafia, but it’s the poster for 100-yen beer that has our attention.
Man crosses Japanese drinking culture line by taking mug of draft beer onto train
- Casey Baseel
Jul 20, 2018
Japan is usually willing to look the other way about booze on the rails, but not this time.
7-Eleven thrills Japan by announcing self-serve draft beer machines, then breaks our hearts
- Casey Baseel
Jul 17, 2018
Shockingly, a Japanese company deems it’s possible for it to be too easy for people to get beer.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • alcohol • beer • controversy • conveneince stores • cool • Kirin)
Enjoy a free beer in Tokyo every single day with awesome monthly mobile app
- Casey Baseel
Jul 12, 2018
100 bars and restaurants in and around the capital are part of bargain that costs less than two normally priced beers.
Hyogo man arrested for backhanding cash register while verifying his age
- Master Blaster
Jul 4, 2018
Suspect was apparently enraged when his maturity was called into question.
- Japan
- (age verification • alcohol • convenience stores • crazy • crime • society • weird)
Legendary anime Evangelion’s creator and mecha appear in ad for Sapporo Beer【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 30, 2018
Hideaki Anno explains his philosophy of personal improvement while the giant robot from his signature series makes a cameo.
- Japan
- (ads • alcohol • anime • beer • drinks • Evangelion • Hideaki Anno • Sapporo Beer • video)
Clear near beer is here! We taste test Japan’s new zero-alcohol, zero-color brew【Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 21, 2018
Suntory wants us to drink its new All-Free All-Time at work, so that’s just what we did.
- Japan
- (alcohol • beer • clear drinks • COK • drinks • non alcoholic beer • non-alcohol beer • SNOJ • Suntory • taste test)
Drinking party breaks out on Tokyo Station platform as Shinkansen delay strands travelers
- Casey Baseel
Jun 18, 2018
Booze fans pass the time in a quintessentially Japanese way, while their younger counterparts opt for a more athletic method.
- Japan
- (alcohol • bullet trains • cool • funny • shinkansen • trains • travel • video)
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