Beer-Ma Kanda

Kōrakuen & Akihabara


Down an alley of sketchy-looking drinking dens is this nirvana for craft-beer lovers. It's principally a bottle shop stocking hundreds of different beer brands, all of which you can buy and drink on the premises (corkage ¥200). There's also eight taps of barrel beer available with servings in a range of sizes.


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