At the end of another hot week in Tokyo what better way to deal with the heat than to head to the “Ebisu garden place” where the headquarters of Sapporo breweries are located along with the Yebisu beer museum. Entrance to the museum is free but they charge for beer tasting.
This area of Tokyo, and its community, was built around the brewery in the early 1900’s. Prior to being redeveloped a brewery stood on this site and the station was built for the sole purpose of distributing beer. Can there be any better reason for a community to exist?
When the site was redeveloped Sapporo beer built a “beer hall” (remember nama biiru onegai shimasu – draught beer please) and the Japanese interpretation of German beer hall food (think sauerkraut, bratwurst and frankfurters and you would have described the main stays of the menu). What better way to spend an afternoon when the temperatures are high than to sit in the shade and drink beer?
There is also a large department store and a huge roof covering an outdoor courtyard which, on this day, had floating flower arrangements on the waterfalls.
One of the stranger sites was this reproduction of a European manor house.
This area of Tokyo, and its community, was built around the brewery in the early 1900’s. Prior to being redeveloped a brewery stood on this site and the station was built for the sole purpose of distributing beer. Can there be any better reason for a community to exist?
When the site was redeveloped Sapporo beer built a “beer hall” (remember nama biiru onegai shimasu – draught beer please) and the Japanese interpretation of German beer hall food (think sauerkraut, bratwurst and frankfurters and you would have described the main stays of the menu). What better way to spend an afternoon when the temperatures are high than to sit in the shade and drink beer?
There is also a large department store and a huge roof covering an outdoor courtyard which, on this day, had floating flower arrangements on the waterfalls.
One of the stranger sites was this reproduction of a European manor house.
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