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The Mermaid

Akasaka

Tokyo

Address:

3-10-9 GF Granbell Hotel Akasaka,
Minatoku,

Tokyo, 107-0052,

JAPAN

Tel: 03-3584-2006

http://www.mermaidpub.com

Opening hours: 11:30am - 4am

Eric Janson, Of Austria Microsystems very kindly sent this one in, and he has this to say about it:

"The Mermaid in Tokyo (2 min by foot from Akasaka-Mitsuke metro station) is an excellent pub with Guiness, Spitfire, Hoegaarden, Kirin Ichiban and another four on tap, numerous bottled choices as well as a couple of ciders.  Food is not especially outstanding but the most important thing is the atmosphere which is like a real pub in the middle of Tokyo - hard to pull off but they do.  Live sports, mishmash of tables and chairs, stale beer smell - GREAT!  Always a curious mix of expats and locals.  Exit the Akasaka- Mitsuke Metro stop to the narrow street in the entertainment sector, and turn left (heading away from the Hew Otani Hotel.)  A couple of short blocks on the right and you are there, it is on the corner ground floor of the Hotel Granbell."

Popeye in Sumida-ku (Ryogoku street).

The most famous bar for real beer in Tokyo, which sells  the products of an assortment of Japanese micro-breweries.

Popeye boasts that it always has 40 micro-brews on tap.

Ushi-Tora in Setagaya-ku has 20 beers on tap but it's tricky to find being on the second story of a building in Kitazawa street.

Address: Kitazawa 2-9-3 Tel: 2485-9090

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Brews own beer. Does a particularly pleasant hoppy pale ale.

Open 11:30-14:00; 17:30-22:30