Summer time is festival time, as such Shibuya Yokocho food alley at Miyashita Park is offering all kinds of matsuri (festival) games and activities throughout July and August. You can enjoy goldfish and yoyo scooping, draw an omikuji fortune slip, fuel up on cotton candy, and more. So come dress up in a yukata and join in the festivities for free. (Note: goldfish scooping is only available from July 16 to 18).
Between July 11 and 24, the restaurants here will offer otoko-ume sour, a popular alcoholic beverage made from umeboshi (dried plums). And then from August 22, Kochi prefecture’s sake brewery Suigei Shuzo will be introducing a new way of enjoying nihonshu by adding squeezed lemon, orange or grapefruit to its signature rice wine.
The eateries are open from 11am to 5am from Monday to Saturday and the day before holidays, and from 11am to 11pm on Sundays and holidays.