Nippon Club

They had three beers on tap, if you call them beers. A VB was $ 6. I would never pay that much for a VB. It was a dive bar with expensive prices, so I have no idea why this was recommended to me. Also the Resturant was expensive for the food — you can better sushi for a cheaper price everywhere else in the city.

Went here on a recommendation– now I’m not too sure why. The beer selection was poor and expensive for what it was– for the same price you could go to any awesome bar in the area. Food looked to be about the same.
Would only go if you ever wondered what would happen if someone opened up an Aussie RSL in Japan.

Never, ever would have guessed this place was here. Not if I was paid to find it. The only reason I did was a buddy who works a few doors down owed me a beer and he called me and said he was at Nippon Club and he’d just bought my beer and it was sitting on the table getting warm if I wanted it, so you can see why I made the effort.
This is one of those little doorways that you go through, down a set of stairs, and there’s a whole level of interesting things you never new existed. Think it was for traveling Japanese businessman to get a taste of home and meet ex-​pats and to have somewhere to hang out back in the days before globalisation bit hard.
There’s a bar area, and a restaurant area, and you sign in like an RSL. The place smelled a bit like a Chinese buffet (which I like) and there was an air of listlessness, that the world had somehow passed this place by. Which, to be fair, it has.
But I like that too. And the beers are cheap.