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Solo travel in Japan: Hidden beer garden in Tokyo is a haven for single visitors

Oona McGee
Aug 30, 2026
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This rooftop in Kabukicho is a hidden oasis where all diners will feel welcome.

Japan
(beer gardens • cheap eats • food • izakaya • Japanese restaurants • Kabukicho • Restaurant • restaurants • shinjuku • SNJO • solo dining • solo travel • Tokyo)

Kumamoto earthquake may have created Japan’s newest hot spring inside flooded restaurant [Video]

Casey Baseel
Aug 10, 2026

Kumamoto City izakaya began flooding with hot, sulfur-smelling water immediately after quake.

Japan
(2026 Kumamoto earthquake • COK • crazy • disaster • earthquakes • hot springs • izakaya • Kumamoto • Kumamoto City • kumamoto earthquake • onsen • pubs • restaurants)

Sushi Pizza surprises diners in one of the best food destinations in Japan

Oona McGee
May 28, 2026

New fusion food looks set to become a hit on social media.

Japan
(food • izakaya • new releae • Osaka • pizza • restaurants • seafood • sushi • sushi pizza)

Japan’s izakaya pubs closing at record pace, failing to attract foreign tourists

Casey Baseel
May 21, 2026

Combination of factors is dimming the shine of one of the stars of Japanese restaurant culture.

Japan
(alcohol • bars • COK • drinks • food • izakaya • pubs • restaurants • society)

Police cracking down on outdoor seating in Tokyo’s liveliest street market neighborhood[Video]

Casey Baseel
May 9, 2026

Tokyo Metropolitan Police officers issue warnings to pub owners in Ueno.

Japan
(Ameya Yokocho • Ameyoko • Ameyokocho • bars • COK • izakaya • pubs • restaurants • SNJO • society • Ueno • video)

Eating cheap sushi in a narrow building in Tokyo is an adventure for bold diners

SoraNews24
May 4, 2026

We play culinary roulette at a cheap restaurant in Kabukicho.

Japan
(cheap eats • food • izakaya • Japanese restaurants • Kabukicho • Restaurant • restaurants • shinjuku • SNJO • sushi • Tokyo)

Japan’s bathhouse-themed bar replaces hot water with unlimited alcohol

Elliot Hale
Feb 17, 2026

Styled like a traditional sento, this izakaya chain lines its walls with 13 working faucets that let you pour your own drink.

Japan
(alcohol • all you can drink • bar • COK • cool • izakaya • Miyagi • pub • Sendai • Taishu Shusen Terumae • Terumae • theme bar)

Asakusa’s Yoi no Yoi bar crawl is one of Tokyo’s best local nights out

Elliot Hale
Feb 13, 2026

Just 1,000 yen per stop lets you drink, eat, and mingle with friendly strangers through this historic neighborhood.

Japan
(alcohol • annual event • Asakusa • Asami Oshima • bar crawl • bar hopping • basashi • beer • COK • drink • food • home • horse meat • izakaya • Kannon-ura • Kannon-ura Sakedokoro Yu • omikuji • pub • rickshaw • sakaba • Sensoji Temple • SNJO • Taco44 • takoyaki • Tokyo • tokyo rickshaw • Yoi no Yoi)

Tokyo pub explicitly soft-bans customers older than 39 from entering

Casey Baseel
Jan 23, 2026

Other nearby restaurant sets minimum-age of entry as well.

Japan
(COK • food • generation gap • izakaya • Japanese pubs • pubs • restaurants • Shibuya • society)

We followed Tokyo’s mystery walking map and ended up creating our own bar-hopping adventure

Elliot Hale
Jan 13, 2026

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.

Japan
(alcohol • Asami Oshima • Bar Hoshikuzu • Boheme Plus Beaudessin • Buzzed Lamb Brewing • capsule machine • COK • drink • Ecute • gacha machines • izakaya • Machimachi Megane • Map • Nippori • omurice • pub • random • sakaba • Seitaro • Shukon • SNJO • squid ink • sugidama • Tokyo • tour • tourism • travel • walking • walking tour • Yanaka • Yanaka Ginza • yorimichi • Yorimichi Map)

All-you-can-eat lunch buffet for just 850 yen right next to Shinjuku Station

Elliot Hale
Nov 10, 2025

Grilled fish, curry, and homemade croquettes make for a shockingly affordable and satisfying meal.

Japan
(all-you-can-eat • COK • croquettes • food • food and drinks • izakaya • mapo tofu • Masanuki Sunakoma • restaurants • shinjuku • SNJO • tabehodai • Tokyo • Yottekiya)

All you need to know about Japan’s unasked-for restaurant appetizers that you have to pay for

Casey Baseel
Jun 21, 2025

Otoshi is a unique part of Japan’s restaurant culture that can feel like a scam if you’re not ready for it.

Japan
(appetizers • COK • culture • food • izakaya • Japanese language • linguistics • otoshi • pubs • restaurants • SNO • society)

Drink hot sake at Tokyo train station’s “phantom platform”

Oona McGee
Dec 9, 2024

A special winter drinking event you won’t want to miss.

Japan
(atsukan • COK • cool • events • food • hot sake • izakaya • Japanese food • Japanese sake • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • oden • restaurants • Ryogoku • Ryogoku Station • sake • Tokyo • train stations • trains • unique • unusual • winter)

Tough times for Japanese pubs as izakaya bankruptcies come at highest rate in more than a decade

Casey Baseel
Dec 6, 2024

More Japanese pubs are declaring bankruptcy now than in any year of the pandemic, study says.

Japan
(alcohol • COK • izakaya • pubs • restaurants • society)

Subway Japan purchased by Japanese izakaya pub company with penchant for organic farming

Casey Baseel
Oct 25, 2024

Watami wanted sandwiches, so it went out and bought Subway.

Japan
(bars • COK • fast food • food • izakaya • pubs • restaurants • sandwiches • Subway • Subway Japan • Watami)

This Japanese pub with one-yen bottles of sake broke our brain and made our day

Casey Baseel
Aug 25, 2024

We have no idea how this is possible, but we’re oh so happy it is.

Japan
(alcohol • awesome • bars • cheap • COK • cool • crazy • izakaya • nihonshu • pubs • restaurants • sake • SNJO)

Anime-style avatar waitresses, controlled by humans, now taking orders at Tokyo pub

Casey Baseel
Aug 3, 2024

Miraizaka has a futuristic new ordering system that it says AI can’t equal.

Japan
(anime • cool • crazy • izakaya • manga • restaurants • technology • virtual YouTubers • VTubers • weird)

Japan’s new canned chu-hai with fresh lemon slice: disappointing gimmick or drink revelation?

Oona McGee
Jun 15, 2024

Future Lemon Sour is a world-first, but does it really recreate the izakaya experience at home?

Japan
(Asahi Breweries • bars • canned drinks • chu-hai • chuhai • COK • drinking • drinks • Future Lemon Sour • izakaya • lemon • lemon sour • Mirai no Lemon Sour • Miyashita Park • news • review • Shibuya • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo)

Japan unveils world’s first chu-hai with fresh lemon slice in can so every drink tastes different

Oona McGee
Jun 7, 2024

A world-first lemon sour that lets you bring that izakaya feel home with you.

Japan
(Asahi Breweries • bars • canned drinks • chu-hai • chuhai • COK • drinking • drinks • Future Lemon Sour • izakaya • lemon • lemon sour • Mirai no Lemon Sour • Miyashita Park • news • Shibuya • Tokyo)

Tokyo restaurant finds heartwarming way to lure people away from ramen and back to set meals

Oona McGee
May 29, 2024

A Japanese restaurant with a whole lot of food…and a whole lot of heart.

Japan
(COK • fish • Ikebukuro • izakaya • Japanese food • Japanese restaurants • restaurants • review • seafood • set meal • SNJO • taste test • teishoku)

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