#Tokyo Bar

[julamusic]

Scenes from NOVABLOOD DJ set at Tokyo Bar Newcastle on March 2nd 2024

[onejamtart]

OJT DRINKS | Bar Trench

As amazing as the food is in Tokyo, if you like a drink, you definitely need to spend some of your evenings checking out some bars. In our case, one of the (many) places we wanted to visit was Bar Trench so we headed on down.

As you walk in, you are faced with this wall of bottles and bartenders in white lab coats. It's a tiny little bar with 1 row of a seats at the bar and a couple more dotted around the room but it was cosy to say the least! We managed to get lucky with a couple of seats at the bar.

Our first round of drinks included this Irish coffee and a Trench 75, which is their take on the French 75 and uses sparkling sake instead of champagne. The drinks were delicious with the Irish coffee incredibly smooth and rich.

There was only one thing on the food menu but we weren't about to not order it, espeically as it was a katsu sando, one of my favourite things to eat. This version had a really nice mustardy kick to it with a crunchy tender katsu.

Our 2nd round of drinks were just as good as the first. These were fruity, refreshing and balanced.

One final one for the road. This was a martini like drink and was a incredibly well made drink and a great way to end the night.

The coasters had this very cool message on them from American Poet Charles Bukowksi :)

Bar Trench is a great little bar with amazing drinks and a great atmosphere. You can see why it is currently number 92 on the list of Asia's best bars. We look forward to going back next time we are in Tokyo!

Bar Trench, 〒150-0021 Tokyo, Shibuya City, Ebisunishi, 1 Chome−5−8, Dis Ebisu Bldg., １０２

Cheers, JL

[zegalba]

Natsume Tomomichi: Bar Nakagawa (2004) Location: Tokyo, Japan

[nevver]

Tokyo undressed, Tadahiko Hayashi

[the-colors-of-tokyo]

Kanpai!

Outside the Wine Bar in

Small Town Tokyo: Toritsudaigaku

[jasmine7031]

Weekend dinner was sushi, sandwiches, and gin and tonic at the rooftop bar.

On this day, the room had a beautiful view of Tokyo Tower.

[agehalily33]

Episode 6 better have some Lyca and Subaru interaction OR ELSE 😫💕

[utenixx]

Gojo accidentally comes out to Shoko in the worst way possible. More at 11.

[trashhole]

Starbee photo ops

They’re like Barbie’s to me < 3

@leefyberrybread ‘s little guy (we love gambling 💀)

Photo op!!!

Went to a yakuza pop up shop for my friend @eareyesyrup , it was very fun!

Saw oppy a few times at the store I found star!! Ironically there was a bee I could’ve bot too but I already had him so I seperated starbee…

Hmgffff i want her bad but she was sold out at the gatcha machine (i have no idea who this is)

New art soon hopefully, LA wore me out!

[angelclouve]

The overworked moms ghouls trio, on their way to go bar-hopping and taste-testing new liquors outside Darkwick :)

(because the dads and the children have stressed them enough today that they decided to hold the drinking session in places faraway from home oops)

Putting the silliness aside... if we only consider the different backgrounds and personalities, these trio are actually quite an unusual housewife friend group 🤔

Not counting the fact they entered Darkwick on the same year and knew each other's name during The Weighing of Souls... when and where they first actually meet and get to know each other? I can only think of them getting assigned to a mission together and it ended with a success, thus a celebratory drink in a bar somewhere outside Darkwick? And maybe as they spent time sharing alcohol and chatting with each other, they eventually also bonded through their similar experiences as people who always end up dealing with troubles happening inside their dorms 💭

(Speaking of "people who always end up dealing with troubles happening inside their dorms", there are two certain vice-captains that also fit this criteria... makes me wonder if they also used to be part of this friend group before The Clash and the whole spy shenanigans fucked up relationships among some ghouls)

[arcadebroke]

[zegalba]

Gianfranco Frattini: Hilton Hotel Bar (1984) Located: Tokyo, Japan

[tokyo-daaaamn-ji-gang]

Aww he actually thought about who he's with! And didn't realise this is part of his present/ surprise!

[takeuchiitsuka]

#9004 Copyright © Takeuchi Itsuka. All Rights Reserved.

[hanlar]

"RAVEN"

Happy Birthday, Renji Yomo 09//07

[yinyuedijun]

i dont know if this is an unusual thing to ask (or if it has been asked before), but i’ve always immensely admired the effort you put in your fics with how well-researched they all are, especially when it comes to cultural details of the story/concept (it’s very immersive because it feels like i’m learning as i read further, not only about the character/s but about the culture the story is set in as well)

and so im curious, how do you start or how do you go about the research when starting a fic?

aw thank you anon!!! I'm so glad you find the fics interesting from a learning perspective, I'm always so happy to hear when people appreciate the research I've done for my fics 🥹

I don't really have a set method for research, but here are some basic tips:

for topics that I don't know a lot about, I usually start by skimming the wikipedia article on the topic, picking out key points of interest that are relevant to the story, and then googling to find academic pages or books on that topic. then I usually try to stick to those sources for my writing, both because they go into more depth and because I know they'll be more reliable than other sources on the web

ALSO when I was writing the yakuza au, which is a topic I knew close to nothing about - for the first time, I tried to begin my research by watching documentaries and video essays on youtube, and it also worked CRAZY well. super digestible and way less labour intensive than googling and trying to find academic sources.

if you're trying to get a sense of everyday life for something, or how a regular person might view/act on the subject rather than an academic or journalist perspective, I find video blogs and reddit threads to be a really informative source. for instance, I've never been to any hostess bars in japan so I tried to look for AMAs from hostesses and was quite successful in that regard (especially for things like terminology/slang that people use)

this final tip is not really a research method per se, but helps with it. in my real life I'm always on the lookout for subjects that I find extremely interesting, and I try to retain as much info about it as I can in case the opportunity ever comes up to write about it. so for example, in my feudal japan au, I came up with those inari shrine plot points because I visited fushimi inari shrine once and got super obsessed with all the fox statues LOL. naturally when I was writing about a fox spirit character, that came back to mind, and I already had a reference point for my research, which helped.

I hope this helps!