Fukuoka, Kyushu
I made a couple of visits to natural-wine venues in Fukuoka, I had found some addresses on the web but ended to visit other place after my friend Alex from VineyardGate sent me a tip about one place, just telling me to look for @minnano_kochang. I did my part of research on the web and ended up finding the location and more exciting details through the tabelog page devoted to this venue... Comments of visitors were also interesting and helped me really find the door, as in Japan, many bars are not directly on the street level but are actually appartments either in upper stories with no particular sign on the door, or also in basements. In short, when you stroll in a street lined with restaurants in Japan, you miss possibly 50 % or more of the operating bars, they're somewhere up there in buildings and you have to know by word of mouth.
By precaution I first came there during the day, I indeed located the building but failed to find the door as it was before further web research where I stumbled on comments pointing to this back door. When I came back in the evening, the people inside were surprised to see me, a foreigner coming for the first time to what almost looks like a secret bar is certainly unusual. Here is the Google Map page for the address, don't look for the street view of the building, it's a new building on what was then a parking lot.
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