
Tag: booze

Lock & Load! Shooting Bar EA, Tokyo
by joostay
Drink booze & shoot the shit out of things, Tokyo style. Directly in front of me a nicely dressed woman is locking and loading an AK-47. Directly behind me my friends are doing the biggest shots of tequila I’ve ever seen. This is Shooting Bar EA – Tokyo’s BB gun shooting range, a place where the menus are chock-full of booze and guns, and pacifism should be left at the door. Hanging on the wall there are Glocks, Sig Sauers, Colts, […]
Categories: Bizarre/Unique, Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: asia, bar, booze, drinking, games, guns, japan, kichijoji, nightlife, se asia, shooting range, tokyo, travel

The secret’s out: ¥30 beers in Tokyo
by joostay
¥30 beers in Tokyo? Yup, they exist. 114 beers later and we’re alive to tell the tale… Whether you’re new to Japan, or are simply blind drunk in the convenience store at 3am and can’t see what you’re buying, you’ve probably had happoshu (発泡酒). Basically classed as a “low-malt beer-like beverage”, the quality of happoshu can vary from ‘just about drinkable’ to ‘piss in a can’. Japanese tax laws state that beers that contain over 67% malt are taxed in […]
Categories: Art Music & Culture, Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: asia, bar, beer, booze, culture, drunk, food, gaijin, hangover, happoshu, japan, restaurant, south east asia, street, tokyo, travel, urban