Restaurant serves all the food and drinks it promises, but the eye candy isn’t quite what it seems.
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Japanese chicken wing pub draws in gullible customers with sexy-legged lady trap
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Casey Baseel
Feb 20, 2018 - Tweet
- Japan
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Japan’s most popular pub chain rolls beer price back to what it was in 1980 for celebration
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Casey Baseel
Nov 30, 2017
Kyoto hotel’s Maiko-han Bar event lets travelers drink with geisha at amazingly affordable prices
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Casey Baseel
Nov 25, 2017
Foreign guests welcome at lobby lounge function that sidesteps the cost and pretense of orthodox geisha services.
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Mr. Sato becomes a Tokyo host club host for one night, and you can drink with him!
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Casey Baseel
Nov 12, 2017
Two of our reporters invite you to share a glass of absinthe with them at Host Club Roketto in Shinjuku.
- Japan
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After a long day of sightseeing in Japan’s former capital, don’t forget to try this Japanese take on Irish coffee right across the street from Kyoto Station.
Amazon is opening a brick-and-mortar bar in Tokyo, giving us a reason to leave our homes
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Casey Baseel
Oct 11, 2017
Human and virtual sommeliers help customers pick out the perfect beer, wine, or sake in “bar with no menu.”
Interview with a “happening bar” customer: “I was getting repulsed by the whole atmosphere”
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Master Blaster
Sep 15, 2017
We ask the difficult questions, like what the hell is a “happening bar?”
- Japan
- (bars • funny • happening bar • interview • Japanese subculture • nightlife • society • subculture • weird)
The lure of cheap booze is hard to resist, but before you follow that discount-promising tout, take a moment to check what clothes he’s wearing.
- Japan
- (alcohol • bars • customer-pullers • izakaya • kyakuhiki • lifehack • restaurants • society)
Hotel in Japan has discounts for female bar customers who wear high heels, the higher the better
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Casey Baseel
Jun 9, 2017
- Japan
- (bars • fashion • high heels • Hilton • hotels • Osaka • restaurants • shoes • travel)
Tokyo lifehack: How to get rid of the “customer pullers” who’ll pester you in the bar district
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Casey Baseel
Mar 13, 2017
Japan’s infamous bar barkers often won’t take no for an answer, but one veteran says this response will stop them in their tracks.
- Japan
- (bars • funny • izakaya • Japanese language • kyakuhiki • lifehack • restaurants • society)
Japan’s matcha green tea beer satisfies two cravings in an awesomely delicious way
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Casey Baseel
Feb 22, 2017
If you can’t get enough of Japan, or just happen to be the indecisive type, this mix of Yebisu Beer and Kyoto green tea is for you.
- Japan
- (alcohol • bars • beer • drinks • Ebisu Beer • green tea • matcha • restaurants)
Mix childhood memories with your drinks at awesome new ball pit bar in Japan
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Oona McGee
Sep 24, 2016
- Japan
- (bars • fun • new openings • Osaka • tourism • tourist sites • travel • weird)
We go crazy for 500 yen all-you-can-eat sweets and snacks at Tokyo Dagashi Bar
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Oona McGee
Jul 16, 2016
If you ever wanted to step back in time to a nostalgic corner shop where just 500 yen (US$4.85) gets you over a hundred different types of signature Japanese snacks and candies, this place is definitely for you.
Lettuce makes tasty booze and other discoveries at a new all-you-can-drink shochu bar
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Jessica
Jul 7, 2016
T.G.I. Friday’s to open new Gotanda location hoping to woo patrons with “Hollywood” atmosphere
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Mike
Jun 30, 2016
The American franchise known for its playfully kitschy decorations and classic American fare will get a unique new venue in Tokyo’s Gotanda area.
- Japan, USA
- (bars • drink • food • restaurants • Watami Group)
Hooters opening gaming bar in Tokyo in partnership with video game company Namco
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Casey Baseel
Dec 8, 2015
Companies collaborating to earn all of the disposable income from 20 and 30-something males in Japan.
- Japan
- (bars • Hooters • Namco • restaurants • Shibuya • Tokyo • video games)
We check out the awesome Tokyo restaurant sandwiched between two active train tracks
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Krista Rogers
Nov 16, 2015
Earlier this year, we shared news about a restaurant in Tokyo where you can dine between the train tracks of the busy Chuo Line. One of our Japanese-language reporters finally got the chance to visit the location for himself, and we’d like to share his thoughts about getting up close and personal with some trains!
Anime-loving bar owner also philanthropist, offers free drinks, place to chill to typhoon victims
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Casey Baseel
Sep 12, 2015
Japan spent most of this last week getting pounded by torrential rainstorms. This wasn’t just a case of people getting their socks wet, either, as flooding caused damage to houses, disruption of train lines and highways left some people stranded away from home, and in some extreme cases residents even had to be evacuated by helicopter.
But while the rains stimulated the craziness in some people, they brought out the generosity in one bar owner in Tochigi Prefecture, because while the rain was falling on Japan, drinks were on the house, as he took to Twitter to offer free booze or a place to rest for victims of the typhoon.
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