With Japan’s largest selection of draught beers including imports and Japanese craft beers, Popeye is the one bar you must visit in Tokyo if you’re serious about beer.

Excellent selection of Japanese craft beers including Hitachino Nest on draught, and Hakusekikan, Shiga Kogen, Minoh, and Ezo in bottles. A quite little place with good beer at excellent prices and friendly staff.

With only a few special beers, Cafe Cotton Club isn’t a beer lover’s dream, but it does combine good food with good beer and have a relaxing atmosphere to boot.

In Tokyo for a few days or moving to Tokyo? This is my selection of the best selection of bars to hit, chosen for their variety of fantastic craft beers.

A Belgian bar with a surprisingly good selection of unusual British bottled ales – beers that you’d be hard pushed to find in the “British” bars in Tokyo. A little cramped – “compact and bijou” springs to mine – but an excellent little bar, with the best chips I’ve found in Tokyo.

Beer in Japan isn’t perfect. It’s difficult to track down all the bars that sell craft beer, and listing the stores would be even harder. This guide will show you how to track down places in Japan that sell craft beer and where to buy it online.

Boozelist is the brainchild of “Chuwy”, a Welshman with a passion for beer. Initially a list of “what’s on tap” that he maintained for his own reference, Chuwy put the list online for others to use. Updated daily from bar websites, emails from bars, and visit by Chuwy…

How did BIJ come about? What’s written here? How do you find out about new listings and articles? If you want more info on the Beer in Japan website, read this.

Just up from 109 in Dogenzaka, Hemel is a Belgian beer bar with a couple of beers on tap and a good selection of bottles. I used to go there a lot until I saw the chef did something to turn me off the place.

The Beer in Japan guide to the good bars in Tokyo and Yokohama – the bars where you can find craft beers on tap or in bottles, or which have an excellent atmosphere.

The page is not meant to list every bar in Tokyo/Yokohama. Rowdy gaijin bars, meat markets, bars with rude staff, bars which have nothing more than Kirin + Guinness, etc are not included here.