Craft Beer Market Kanda

Craft Beer Market is one of Tokyo's best-known craft beer chains, built on a simple idea of a wide, changing tap list at flat prices, and the Kanda branch sits on the ground floor of the MISU BLDS building in Kajicho, about 30 seconds from the south exit of JR Kanda Station and a short walk from Akihabara.

The board runs to 30 craft beers, and the daily rotation keeps Japanese craft at the core with imports alongside. The branch's own page says the line-up leans towards IPAs and is pitched at drinkers who already know their way around craft beer. Pricing follows the chain's flat-rate structure, now listed as ¥480 for a glass and ¥680 for a pint whatever the beer, which makes it easy to work through several. Earlier menus added a ¥300 table charge after 4pm, so check the current terms when you sit down.

Food is the branch's other selling point. The menu is built around the head chef's Italian cooking, and lamb is the house speciality: lamb chops, lamb burgers and lamb keema curry pair well with the chain's hoppier, more robust beers. Group party plans with two hours of free-flow drinks start at ¥5,000 a head and need booking.

The open-tread staircase makes it one of the more architecturally interesting branches, and the crowd mixes Kanda traders with tech workers and anime fans from Akihabara. On weekdays it opens for lunch from 11.30am to 2pm and again from 5pm to 11pm, while weekends and holidays run from noon to 10pm according to the branch page. English menus and free WiFi are available, and staff are accommodating to non-Japanese speakers.