Orange
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
a tokyo photolog (my flickr archive, and occasional rant and rave: I have a free flickr acount, and want to keep the pics I have uploaded.)
ホッピー (reads: hop-py) is something like low-alcohol beer. Sociologically (?), it's like "champagne for the working-class" - cider in Britain may be quite close. "Hoppy and 焼酎" is one of the popular cocktails in Shinbashi or Asakusa... Not so in Roppongi or Azabu.
On the lantern is Hoppy's trademark lettering/typography as you see on the cover of their "official" guide book.
The Orion Beer is based in Okinawa, Japan.
Hibiya area, Tokyo, Japan
This is a window of a restaurant, which I frequented about ten years ago, when I was working near here. It's good to keep seeing something familiar for a decade.
It reads "Yasukuni-dori shoten-gai rengo-kai," which means "Commercial Shops Coalition along Yasukuni Street."