GAME BARS: THE BEST WAY TO DRINK IN JAPAN!

So Jason and I have discovered the cheapest (and thus the best way) to get drunk in Japan...

GAME BARS!

Games bars have proven to be WAY cheaper than regular bars in Japan, with ludicrously cheap all-you-can-drink alcohol deals,  while also having the added benefit of free entertainment in the form of games, and often even throwing in some kind of food as well!

Game bars contain both video games and board/card games. If you're not a big video gamer like me, they have tables all around, and squishy carpets and cushions where you can sit and chat, or bust out a simple game like jenga that you can play while talking. Because for me, I want to talk while I drink. I don't want to play video games while I drink. Plus, I want to get the greatest amount of drinks for my time, and you can't drink efficiently and play video games at the same time.Also, game bars often have dress ups, hats, or masks for you to much around in while drunk! Another bonus!

The way these places usually work, is that when you enter, they'll give you a little lanyard with some kind of barcode on it, which has your entry time encoded into it. Some places might also do this with a little paper receipt. The charge is usually per hour, including all you can drink booze. Prices range from a measly $5 an hour to $15 an hour, depending on what they include. Personally, I wouldn't pay $15 an hour unless they had something really special there, but by Australian prices, that's still AMAZING... $15 is only enough you get you 2 drinks in Australia, whereas when I last purchased an hour of all you can drink, I got 7 whiskey high balls in the hour! And  it only cost me $5!!! If I had drank more combatively I think I could have got 10 in the hour, but I actually did play some video games in that hour.


The best game bar Jason and I have been to so far is in Osaka, called the GeeBee Bar, near Amerikamura, Osaka. It costs only 500yen ($5) an hour, and comes with unlimited, self-serve booze and soda (whiskey and liqueurs all in pump bottles next to a soft drink machine) and also comes with unlimited bowls of delicious Japanese curry rice. Can you even imagine getting drunk for $5?! It blew my mind. I drank 7 whiskeys for $5!! And let me tell you, after a couple of drinks, the delicious gravy curry really hits the spot! https://www.facebook.com/gamebarGeeBee/

Recently, Jason and I found a game bar in Kobe that specialises in Japanese snacks! We originally read it wrong, thinking that it specialises in Japanese desserts haha... And I thought what could possibly be better?! But in fact, when we arrived it was Japanese  snacks. We thought it was a bit pricey for just snacks (500 yen/hour for games, 500 yen/hour for snacks on top) but I guess it was a cool idea. https://twitter.com/gamebarbaron

So if you're looking for a cheap way to get drunk, and have fun, I suggest googling game bars in the area of Japan you're in/ going to. And if you're in Osaka, then you NEED to try the GeeBee Bar!