izakaya
Good-looking staff promise to identify your good points and shower you with compliments as you unwind after a long day.
Survey says one in two foreigners have been bummed out by meeting Japanese people with bad breath.
Newly added “Angel Hour” service gets you a discount on drinks such as L.C.L. and the Ayanam Rei Soda cocktail.
This Ikebukuro izakaya just gave us an 8,000-yen discount, and they’ll happily do the same for you.
Intended penalty for bad manners backfires, prompts pub to make drastic change to its beer pricing policy.
Four other restaurants in Tokyo also start selling unprecedentedly generous unlimited-beer-and-cocktail passes.
If you know where to look, you’ll be able to try a jugful of noodles that nobody wanted the owner to create.
Shockingly generous deal even lets you go home, take a break, and come back for more booze.
With photo booths, cosplaying staff, and costume rental for diners, this is one of the most unusual food courts you’ll find in Japan.
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.
Possibly because he felt disciplining an undesirable employee would have been too awkward, one supervisor turned to poison instead.
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