Sake Spots in Japan

  • Sapporo Beer Garden
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    4.5
    6 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hokkaido Sapporoshi Higashi-ku Kitashichijouhigashi 9-2-10
    Sapporo Beer Garden is a complex of restaurants located to the east of Sapporo Station. There are five restaurants full of individuality with different tastes and atmospheres on the site where a historic red brick building stands. Among them, Kessel Hall has an enormous beer brewing cauldron (kessel) made in 1912, and you can enjoy draught beer directly from the brewery and “Genghis Khan” cuisine in a large space like a beer hall. In the Garden Grill, there is a fully private room complete with an exclusive terrace where you can relax and enjoy the private space.

    札幌出張の折、ビジネス仲間とディナーに訪れました。 事前に予約しないと入れない程の人気のレストランだけあって、庭園を眺めながらの個室での会食は高級感溢れる雰囲気で、料理も量より質を重視した「極みコース」を選びました。 ラム特有の臭みもなく絶品!和牛も柔らかく特製タレが旨味を引き出し、サッポロビールとの相性も抜群。 また肉だけでなく、海鮮もあり、最後は北海道の形状をしたプレートに乗せられたデザートま...

  • BW STATION (Subway Shin-Osaka Station Store)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Yodogawa-ku Nishinakajima 5-15-5 Subway Shin-Osaka Station North Concourse 'New Naniwa Diner'
    A beer and wine bar in the new Naniwa dining hall inside Shin-Osaka Station. Enjoy three extra cold chilled craft beers by TOKYO Sumidagawa Brewing; a Weizen, Amber, and Kolsch. The lunch menu offers rice with hashed meat, curry, and huge beef rice bowls. In the evening they offer meals such as deep fried Bicchu chicken thighs, and Australian wheat-reared sirloin steak to enjoy with your drinks.
  • Beer Hall Lion Ginza Nana-chome
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    4.0
    171 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Chuou-ku Ginza 7-9-20 Ginza Lion Building 1F
    Established in 1934, this is Japan’s oldest beer hall. The interior of the restaurant has a retro ambience with Japan’s first 250-color glass mosaic and columns decorated with barley motifs. Guests can enjoy a Sapporo beer poured by a beer master with an abundant assortment of snacks. We recommend the small glass of draft Sapporo beer called a Kinguchi Glass with the Ginza Roast Beef that is only available during limited times and with limited quantities.

    The reason for coming here was to see the oldest beer hall in Japan, modelled after German beer hall. I was surprised that it was quite busy even at tea time, around 4pm, but then I reckon this type...

  • Izu Kogen Beer Honten
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    3.5
    117 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shizuoka Pref. Itoushi Futo 1103
    A restaurant serving local seafood and Izu Kogen Beer located in Ito City, Shizuoka Prefecture adjoining a brewery. The “ryoshi meshi” fisherman’s rice, made with hearty portions of fresh seafood, is particularly popular, as are the lunchtime rice bowl set meals piled high with thick chunks of seafood and salted salmon roe. The restaurant also serves a wide variety of a la carte dishes, such as batter fried seafood, turban cooked in its own shell, and stewed local splendid alfonsino. The restaurant offers six thirst-quenching and highly individual Izu Kogen Beer varieties straight from the brewery. From the first floor tables, diners can observe a section of the brewery.

    何十回と前を通りながら一度も寄ったことなしでしたが今回ランチが変な時間になってしまい初利用。メニューは豊富です。味は普通・・・ 伊豆に特化したファミレスみたいに感じました。家族で旅行であれば各々何かしら好みの品があるであろうなのでいいと思います。下のショップのセレクションが面白かったです。

  • SKY GARDEN 300
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Abeno-ku Abenosuji 1-1-43 Avenue Harkus 58th Floor (within the Harukas 300 Observatory)
    SKY GARDEN 300 is a bar-restaurant located near the top of the Abeno Harukas building, the tallest building in Japan. When looking down from the lounge, the distance down to the street below is 300 meters. SKY GARDEN 300 serves Hawaiian Hot Dogs using bread that is 300 millimeters long; there is also a range of other casual dining options, including Locomoco Don (meat, eggs, gravy and rice), pasta, etc. For dessert, there is Pineapple Candy Soft Ice-cream, developed in collaboration with Pine Co., Ltd. (the manufacturers of the famous Pineapple Candy).
  • Hiroshima Shutendoji
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    4.5
    20 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hiroshima Pref. Hiroshimashinakaku Otemachi 1-4-25
    An izakaya pub in Naka Ward, Hiroshima City. This creative restaurant offers over 150 different dishes and has an extensive selection of Japanese sake and shochu. Come taste the specialties of the province with a menu that changes with the season, including fresh oysters from the outskirts of Miyajima, Japan’s best conger eel, and tiny sardines that best represent Hiroshima cuisine.

    年に一度、必ず予約をして訪れています。日本酒、焼酎などの種類も豊富ですが、特に日本酒は好みを伝えるとオススメのものを提供してくれます。食事もお刺身などの海鮮から、がんすなどの郷土料理も美味しいですよ。

  • Mimasuya
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    4.0
    56 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Kandatsukasamachi 2-15-2
    "A long-standing Japanese izakaya pub and restaurant established in 1905 which is located a short distance south of Ogawamachi Station. Identifiable by its old-fashioned exterior and red paper lantern inscribed with characters reading ""dozeu"" (an old way of spelling ""dojo,"" the Japanese word for loach), after dark, this popular restaurant often sees lines of waiting customers forming outside its door. The restaurant has space for 120 to 130 customers, and offers table seating as well as raised tatami mat seating, and one of its draws is its suitability for holding banquets and parties. The restaurant's signature dish is its horse meat sashimi, and customers can choose between two types - marbled with fat or lean red meat. The restaurant also offers a full array of dishes perfect for snacking on, including pickled dishes, yakitori grilled chicken skewers, and kushikatsu fried food skewers."

    Known as the oldest Izakaya in Japan, Mimasuya continues feeding us their wonderful foods at comfortable ambient with family hospitality. Quintessentially Japanese experience. They have chairs but be...

  • Torisei Main Store
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    4.0
    166 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Fushimi-ku Kamiaburakakechou 186
    This izakaya is five minutes on foot from the Keihan Main Line's Fushimi Momoyama Station in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City. They feature a variety of chicken-based cuisine including skewers made with domestic poultry. Housed in a refurbished Shinsei sake warehouse, they have tanks of Kuradashi unprocessed sake delivered directly to the brewery that guests enjoy poured fresh. They have private rooms and can accommodate group banquets, too.

    Excellent ‘locals’ restaurant within the Gion area. A very small space which gets busy so either come early or be prepared to wait. Cheap and delicious.

  • Spring Valley Brewery Tokyo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Shibuya-ku Daikanyamachou 13-1 Log Road Daikanyama 1 Building
    A restaurant adjoining a brewery just a four-minute walk from Daikan-yama Station on the Tokyu Toyoko Line. The spacious interior, covered with warm woods, creates a special atmosphere that seems distance from the hustle and bustle of the everyday. Craft beers are created daily in the on-site brewing facility, and the restaurant offers old standards and limited-time beers as well as experimental beers only available once, never to be sold again. Spring Valley Brewery’s popular pairing set gives patrons the opportunity to enjoy six different beer varieties together with specially matched sides and snacks.
  • Kamiya Bar
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Taitou-ku Asakusa 1-1-1
    Japan’s first Western-style bar, founded in 1880. Here patrons can enjoy an “electric brandy,” a cocktail which has become a symbol of Asakusa. The unique name was invented in the Meiji period, a time when electricity was a rare sight, and is derived from the cocktail’s then-shocking 45% alcohol volume. Note that today, however, the electric brandy is served at 30%. Closest Station: Asakusa Station.
  • Ponshukan Niigata Station
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    4.5
    351 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Hanazono 1-96-47 CoCoLo Niigata West Building 3F
    A specialty store of Niigata's famous products centering on Japanese sake, located in the CoCoLo Niigata West Building in JR Niigata Station. The store sells a variety of products such as Niigata's local sake, rice, soy sauce, and sweets, every day crowded with tourists shopping for souvenirs. There is a sake tasting room where customers can select five different types of sake among those from all the sake breweries in Niigata Prefecture, making it an irresistible space for sake lovers.

    Quick visit to the station to do some sake tasting. Cute idea to have the tokens and the sake vending machines. Staff was super nice in explaining to us how to read the vending machines. I tried...

  • 371Bar
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Shinjuku-ku Shinjuku 3-7-11F
    A lounge and bar with an open front located in 3 Chome Shinjuku. Whether you're a morning or a night person, 371Bar is ready for you-the establishment is open from 7:00 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. the following day. 371Bar's atmosphere and style changes throughout the day. In the morning, you'll find a mix of Japanese and Western cuisine served buffet style. In the afternoon, seasonal pastas and hamburg steaks come with a free drink. In the late afternoon, 371 functions as a cafe and bar with a focus on cakes and a la carte dishes, while over dinner you can enjoy a steak with various a la carte dishes, craft beers, and wines.
  • Kouyouen
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aichi Pref. Nagoyashi Chikusa-ku Chikusa 2-24-10
    A beer hall established in 1931 situated along Wakamiya Odori Avenue in Chikusa, Chikusa Ward, Nagoya City. The hall has a barbecue restaurant serving renowned jingisukan lamb barbecue; a local beer restaurant; a shabushabu and sukiyaki hotpot restaurant; beer garden; and party rooms, and here you can enjoy tasty food along with fresh draught beer.
  • Ikedaya Hananomai
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    3.5
    38 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Nakagyo-ku Sanjyodo Kawaramachi Higashi Nakajima cho 82 Owa Sanjo Building
    Built on the site of the former Ikeda-ya Inn, where competing forces fought at the end of the Edo period, Ikeda-ya Hananomai provides customers with locally-sourced fresh vegetables from farms under contract and sashimi made from seafood acquired from all over Japan that is acclaimed for its freshness. It has a wide variety of multi-course prix fixe options as well as collaborative menus.

    I was not keen on any of the offerings on Sanjou street so I decided on a whim to eat inside the infamous Ikedaya Inn. It screamed of a tourist trap, but did not expect a decent izakaya to have set...

  • Genkai Energy Park
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    4.0
    141 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saga Pref. Higashimatsuragungenkaichou Imamura Shallow Lake 4112-1
    A facility located near the Genkai Nuclear Power Plant which introduces the mechanisms behind nuclear power generation through an actual sized 13-meter-tall model of a nuclear reactor and a stunning nuclear reactor theater. Visitors can also receive a guided tour of the museum (requires around 40 minutes). The museum is adjoined by a greenhouse with some 200 different plants, a playground, and barbecue ground (advance reservation required), making the place a fun-filled destination for the whole family.

    Always an excellent place to have BBQ. The service is great, and it has a young, lively vibe. The side dishes are also special… not just an afterthought. The bar area is small but nice… outdoor...

  • Before9
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Nijoudenchou 545
    Before9 is a beer pub located in Kyoto's Nakagyo Ward. Characterized by an approachable and casual stand-up bar, it serves liquor, craft beers, and sake acquired from all over Japan, and customers can order their beer in small, medium, or large sizes. It also boasts a full food menu of creative side dishes for customers' drinks.
  • Hobgoblin Roppongi Branch
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Minato-ku Roppongi 3-16-33 Aoba Roppongi Building 1F
    Hobgoblin Japan's second branch in Roppongi, Tokyo, is one of the largest British-Irish pub in Tokyo. It gives customers almost a sense of being in Britain as they eat their fish and chips or homemade savory pies. Hobgoblin can accommodate vegetarians and vegans. Five large video screens are placed around the pub so that customers can watch sporting events from around the world.
  • Hige Girl (Shinjuku Kabuki-cho Branch)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Shinjuku-ku Kabukichou 1-2-8 2nd Wizard Seven Building 5F
    A drag show pub located in Shinjuku's Kabuki-cho neighborhood whose cast includes members currently active on TV. The pub's cheerful and splendidly dressed drag queens are masters of having fun and even first-timers are sure to enjoy themselves. The pub's dazzling shows held each week from Tuesday to Saturday will have you laughing and crying and include performances and dances by drag queens in stylish, gorgeous costumes. The pub also has an abundant selection of original cocktails, desserts, and unique, tasty treats found no place else.
  • Shinme
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    4.0
    28 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kyoto Kyoto-shi Kamigyo-ku Senbon-dori Nakadachiuri Agaru West side Tamayacho 38
    An izakaya pub at the Senbon Nakadachiuri intersection that's been serving food in line with the ideal of Delicious and Fresh that Matches the Season and the Day ever since their founding in 1934. As they head to the market to buy fresh ingredients on a daily basis their recommended specialties also change daily. The interior with its U-shaped counter and single plank table has a retro feel almost like you've stepped back into the Showa period. While calling themselves an izakaya pub their dishes are at the level of a traditional Japanese restaurant and sure to leave you completely satisfied. Their specialty menu item is Shinme, a unique warm-sake blend of six different types of Japanese sake.

    As other people say, they do serve good food. However, their service was not good at all. First, they did not bring any appetizer to me (later they said they forgot to serve it to me when I asked...

  • Gotemba Kogen Beer Grand Table
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    4.0
    103 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shizuoka Pref. Gotembashi Kouyama 719
    This restaurant located in Gotemba City, Shizuoka Prefecture is famous for serving craft beer made with spring water from Mt. Fuji. The restaurant, which features an open kitchen layout, offers a diverse menu including items such as spare ribs and pizza. Customers can also buy the beer served at the restaurant at the restaurant's shop.

    I taught in Gotemba for a year and a friend and I made a monthly excursion out here. The buffet was amazing, and at Christmastime, the walk in the light tunnel was a once-in-a-lifetime experience...

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