Still reading? Good, because it’s a bar worth leaving the city for.
My photographer, a drink-friendly Scot who knows a fair bit about whisky, emailed me: “Went to a little place last night called the Cask and Still which had a really nice selection of whisky’s [sic], 400 different malts which you don’t find many places… They also had Yona Yona ale on draft, the best pint I have had in Japan. The place is pretty small, just on the Tokyo/Saitama border in Nishi-Kawaguchi (Saitama’s soapland).”
That’s a little harsh. Nishi-Kawaguchi has spent the last three years tackling its reputation for harlotry: It closed many of its sex parlors and asked artists to paint murals on the shutters. It’s still not a central plank of Japan’s tourism strategy, but better bleak than seamy. At least you can take your mum there now.”
Cask & Still
Metropolis, Jan 22, 2010
“This week’s bar is in Saitama.
Still reading? Good, because it’s a bar worth leaving the city for.
My photographer, a drink-friendly Scot who knows a fair bit about whisky, emailed me: “Went to a little place last night called the Cask and Still which had a really nice selection of whisky’s [sic], 400 different malts which you don’t find many places… They also had Yona Yona ale on draft, the best pint I have had in Japan. The place is pretty small, just on the Tokyo/Saitama border in Nishi-Kawaguchi (Saitama’s soapland).”
That’s a little harsh. Nishi-Kawaguchi has spent the last three years tackling its reputation for harlotry: It closed many of its sex parlors and asked artists to paint murals on the shutters. It’s still not a central plank of Japan’s tourism strategy, but better bleak than seamy. At least you can take your mum there now.”