Friday Funky Place is happy to introduce the Glocal Bar Vibes. It’s a shochu bar and the owner, Noriyuki Yamashita, is from Kagoshima, and he not only keeps a huge array of shochu, he is a shochu evangelist who wants to introduce foreigners to shochu in all its myriad forms. Beyond the triumvirate of rice, barley and sweet potato (kome/mugi/imo), he also has a number of other shochu made from more exotic ingredients.
That devotion, bordering on mania, is one that we truly appreciate at FFP. Glocal opens at 8 and doesn’t have much in the way of food, but if you want to know more about shochu, it is definitely the place to go. Fortunately or not, the pours are generous, so if you want to try lots of different shochu, I recommend going with a lot of friends, or you will get toasted.
The bar is located just off Shimotori in the Arita Building, walk down Shimotori, away from the densha and take the second right after Cocosa
The FFP map has it and it is at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qUH94Bac7Hr939b7_8gtvebaJZffGRsX&usp=sharing