The cheap, cheerful, crowded, smoke-patinated dives that populate the lower floors of Shinbashi's Ekimae Building are an enduring time capsule of old-school, after-work salaryman drinking culture.

Part of the Craft Beer iBrew chain, this is one of the cheapest places to drink craft beer in Tokyo, with half-pint pours starting at just ¥429 and a full pint at ¥759. There are up to 30 mostly, if ...

While a lot of the recent additions to Tokyo's burgeoning microbrew scene have taken a rarified approach to the art of beer drinking, this cramped standing bar heads in the opposite direction. Though ...