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We followed Tokyo’s mystery walking map and ended up creating our own bar-hopping adventure
- Elliot Hale
Jan 13, 2026 - Tweet
Several bumps in the road, a few glasses of beer, and a black omurice later, we couldn’t be more satisfied with our new discoveries.
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Should you dip your cake in sake? One Japanese brewer says no, but actually yes【 Taste test】
- Casey Baseel
Jan 5, 2026
145-year-old Niigata brewery gives us some confusing but intriguing advice.
Tokyo station platform to transform into sake bar with hot drinks, hot oden, and hot kotatsu
- Casey Baseel
Dec 13, 2025
Limited-time event returns to Ryogoku this winter.
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- (alcohol • atsukan • cool • crazy.warm • drinks • food • hot sake • kotatsu • oden • Ryogoku • sake • stations • trains)
Tokyo’s Shibuya losing popularity as a place to go drinking, drops out of top 10 in survey
- Casey Baseel
Oct 21, 2025
What’s behind the Shibuya slide as a spot to grab a drink?
Bonsai-tree-flavored gin on sale now
- Master Blaster
Sep 14, 2025
I think that I shall never see a drink as lovely as a bonsai tree.
- Japan
- (alcohol • bonsai • gin • Matsuba Gin • Matsubacha • Matsubaraya • Pine • pine needles • SiCX • tea • Tradman's Bonsai • trees)
Gacha capsule sake shop opening in Tokyo to serve up randomized rice wine and liqueurs
- Casey Baseel
Aug 18, 2025
When you know you want a drink, but don’t know which one, Kurand will be there to help.
Did we strike gold or strike out with this rooftop beer garden on top of a Tokyo parking garage?
- Krista Rogers
Jul 22, 2025
It’s not where you’d expect a summer beer garden to be, but we’ve been surprised before and couldn’t pass up a chance to investigate.
- Japan
- (Ahiruneko • alcohol • beer garden • COK • drinks • food • parking garage • restaurnts • SNJO • Tachikawa • Tokyo)
Sake bread and cakes, using one of Japan’s best brews, can only be bought at one Tokyo bakery
- Casey Baseel
Jul 16, 2025
The star of the Yamaguchi sake scene shows up in Shinjuku baked goods, and we’re ready for a trio of taste tests.
- Japan
- (alcohol • anpan • bread • cake • COK • Dassai • drinks • food • hotels • keio plaza hotel • sake • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
We both do and do not recommend hiking to Tokyo’s beautiful mountain beer garden in midsummer
- Casey Baseel
Jul 12, 2025
The experience isn’t all mountain views and cold drinks.
- Japan
- (Ahiruneko • alcohol • all you can drink • beautiful • beer • COK • drinks • food • hiking • Mountains • Mt. Takao • nature • outdoors • restaurants • SNJO • Takao • tourism • travel)
Game of Jenga filled with high-grade whiskey goes on sale in Japan for nearly 2 million yen
- Master Blaster
Jul 9, 2025
You take a shot from the bottom and put it on top.
- Japan
- (alcohol • bottlers • business • Janga • Jenga • Whiskey • Zeus Janga Japanese Whiskey 25 Years)
Canned Japanese whisky highball has a sophisticated history
- Oona McGee
Jun 26, 2025
Unraveling the mystery of the canned highball “Azabu”.
- Japan
- (alcohol • Azabu • Azabu-Juban • COK • drinks • highball • highballs • Japanese whiskey • Japanese whisky • SNJO • Tokyo • Whiskey • whisky)
Suntory’s new canned whisky cocktail is its first for world whisky Ao
- Casey Baseel
Jun 16, 2025
It takes five countries to make this ready-to-drink cocktail in a can.
- Japan
- (alcohol • Ao • canned cocktails • cocktails • drinks • Japanese whiskey • Japanese whisky • Suntory • Whiskey • whisky)
Can Japan’s favorite cheap chocolate also be a good craft beer? Taste-testing Black Thunder Stout
- Casey Baseel
Jun 7, 2025
Black Thunder chocolate goes into every can, but does that mean this brew comes out tasty?
- Japan
- (alcohol • beer • Black Thunder • Black Thunder Stout • chocolate • COK • craft beer • drinks • food • SNJO • sweets)
Fukuoka woman arrested for drunk bicycle riding
- Master Blaster
Jun 2, 2025
It’s a more serious crime than you may think.
A visit to the real-world Like a Dragon/Yakuza cabaret in Osaka【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 23, 2025
Mr. Sato visits the clear inspiration for Goro Majima’s Cabaret Grand.
- Japan
- (alcohol • cabaret • COK • hostess bars • hostess clubs • Like a Dragon • Mr. Sato • Osaka • SNJO • video games • yakuza)
Famous Japanese whisky Hakushu canned cocktails coming back with new recipe
- Casey Baseel
Apr 12, 2025
Suntory’s Premium Highball Kahushu is returning to stores soon.
- Japan
- (alcohol • canned cocktails • cocktails • drinks • Hakushu • Japanese whiskey • Japanese whisky • Premium Highball Hakushu • Suntory • Whiskey • whisky)
Japanese bar district to get bilingual wristbands to help start/avoid conversations while drinking
- Casey Baseel
Apr 4, 2025
There are more than 600 bars and pubs in Noge, and these wristbands seek to help you find one that’s just right for you.
Fake Japanese whisky countermeasures now include official Japanese whisky emblem
- Casey Baseel
Mar 31, 2025
With so many “Japanese whiskies” available overseas being less than genuine, logo seeks to keep buyers’ expectations in line with what’s actually in the bottle.
- Japan
- (alcohol • drinks • Japanese whiskey • Japanese whisky • Whiskey • whisky)
You can take on sumo wrestlers and drink all the whiskey you want at Tokyo’s new sumo restaurant
- Casey Baseel
Mar 24, 2025
Asakusa’s Sumo Club is open for business and has an authentic sumo ring inside.
- Japan
- (alcohol • all you can drink • Asakusa • cool • crazy • drinks • food • Japanese whiskey • Japanese whisky • restaurants • Sumo • sumo wrestlers • Whiskey • whisky)
New high-alcohol version of Japan’s low-alcohol canned cocktails on the way
- Casey Baseel
Mar 19, 2025
Suntory more than triples the alcohol content of its Horoyoi for newest member of product line.
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