YouTube] 10 Highball Bars in Downtown Tokyo | Selected Long-established Famous Bars in Joto Area with the Original Shochu High on Their Signboards
The east side of Tokyo is where many good old bars still remain. In this area, the unique, candy-colored, extract-infused chu-hi, known as the Shitamachi highball (shochu highball), or "ball," has long been drunk. The reason for this is a longing for Western liquors and an ingenious way to drink the continuously distilled shochu that was still in the process of development...