Craft Beer Market Tokyo Dome City

Craft Beer Market's Tokyo Dome City branch brings the chain's straightforward approach to Japanese craft beer to the entertainment complex around Tokyo Dome. The chain's own page describes it as its first outlet in FOOD STADIUM TOKYO, a casual food hall with up to 500 seats, and pitches it as sporty and casual, with beer served in whichever size you prefer.

Around 20 craft beers are offered, following the chain's daily-rotation format: predominantly Japanese craft lagers, wheat beers, pale ales, IPAs and stouts, plus rotating imports. The chain publishes a daily beer list online, so it is easy to check what is pouring before you go. Prices have been quoted from ¥690 for a glass and ¥880 for a pint, which makes it one of the more affordable ways to drink craft beer before a game or concert.

Food centres on the Wagyu smash burger, made with house-ground Wagyu patties on brioche, backed by hot dogs, fries and popcorn: stadium food done properly. The crowd mixes Dome visitors with local office workers and students, and it fills up around events, so arrive early on game days.

It is open every day of the year from 11am to 11pm, with food last orders at 10pm and drinks at 10.30pm. Suidobashi Station (JR Chuo-Sobu and Toei Mita lines, exit A5), Korakuen Station (Marunouchi and Namboku lines, exit 2) and Kasuga Station (Toei Mita and Oedo lines, exit 2) are all about four minutes' walk away. For a quieter sit-down session, the chain's Jimbocho branch is about eleven minutes' walk from Suidobashi Station.