Like so many other things.
Yup, my guess is you've been there more than a few times, but for the folks here that don't know…..Japan’s an interesting place and was a first of many things for me.
“Nomihodai" - That's all you can drink for say $20-25 CAD. Most places will have beer, sake, cocktails and selected shots on this menu,
Beer in a vending machine - I purchased a 4 litre glass jug of Asahi beer out of a vending machine in Ishinomaki…….and I saw a pervy nerd purchase used panties out of the vending machine right next to it. I’ve also purchased and consumed beer (along with a bowl of curry rice which was heated while the beer was ice cold) from a vending machine on the platform of the local train station at 8 in the morning.
Shirokiya (a chain drinking establishment that’s open until 5am) – Out drinking with friends, miss the last train home and forced to spend the night in the bar drinking with new friends until the first train at 6am.
Get laid on the virtue of being able to speak English (and shamelessly advertising I was from Canada)
The cleanest, hygienic, most advanced electronic toilet systems you’d ever seen in one place, yet the most vile and filthy squatter-$hitters in the train stations just down the street.
Anyway, back on topic, there wasn’t any Coyote on any of the menus, but the horse tasted pretty damn good and I never in a million years thought I’d ever say that (oh, had whale and raw chicken skin as well, but that’s another story),
Had to go to Japan to try it
