Tap Room BEER KOTAN

Founded in 2018 to use the local hop harvest, the brewery turns out over seventy styles a year, with one or two new releases most weeks. The list mixes a few regulars with limited runs spread deliberately across styles, and high-ABV releases appear more often than at most Japanese taprooms. The forty-one-seat room, with its green-tiled tap wall, is styled like a British pub.

Find it on the third floor of the Parade Building, two or three minutes from Odori Station behind PARCO. Order the pork sagari, a Kamifurano skirt-steak speciality served on a hot iron plate.