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The owner is a stylishly eccentric enka singer who sings along with his guests and promises a great night will be had by all.
Despite gyoza taking the center stage at this restaurant, something else on the menu provided the biggest shock of all.
Join us for a Japanese-style pub meal at our place, complete with hot sake and snacks that are super easy to make!
Special one-person seats for when your party has to be online, but you don’t want to have it at home.
Suntory’s for-foreigners video has plenty of great info, and we’ve got a few things to add.
It was an exciting night for our female Japanese-language reporter, but how did it turn out exactly?
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.
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