Mika Tanabe

Mika Tanabe writes about Tokyo nightlife and local life for The Yokocho Post. She has spent the better part of a decade in the city's drinking alleys — from the yakitori smoke of Shinjuku's west side to the under-the-tracks bars of Shibuya and the basements of Koenji — and covers the city the way a regular talks about it: the master behind the counter, the seat worth waiting for, and the etiquette nobody prints on a sign.