Why you should experience Irish Pub Celts Yaesu in Tokyo, Japan.
Irish Pub Celts Yaesu is a convivial Irish pub where Nihonbashi's after-work drinking culture, draft beer, pub cooking and First Kosho's entertainment-business ambitions converge beside Tokyo Station.
Set along Sakura-dori near Yaesu-dori and just steps from Artizon Museum, the pub brings dark timber, beer taps and large-screen sports into the dense office quarter east of the station. Guinness leads a beer program paired naturally with fried fish, potatoes, sausages and other food designed for drinking across an extended evening. The room can shift quickly from individual pints into communal sports viewing, preserving the social character that First Kosho made central to the concept from its 2006 debut. The result is a Nihonbashi pub where beer, football and British Isles comfort food have occupied the same corner of Yaesu for two decades.
What you should know about Irish Pub Celts Yaesu.
Irish Pub Celts Yaesu is best known for opening on March 27, 2006 as a new First Kosho concept created during the company's push to combine dining and entertainment with its Big Echo karaoke business. President Ryuka Yoneda's company rebuilt the Yaesu flagship after a similar strategy at Ueno Hirokoji had doubled total building sales, reducing the Yaesu karaoke operation from 91 to 82 rooms and installing the 94-seat Irish pub on the first floor. A second new concept arrived beneath it: the 114-seat live restaurant Hit Studio 60's, where a resident band performed familiar 1960s and 1970s songs across four nightly sets. First Kosho conceived the building as an entertainment destination joining karaoke, live music, food and sports viewing, with Celts serving beer, cocktails and whisky through a cash-on-delivery pub model alongside finger food such as fish and chips. The company projected a 30-40 percent increase in average monthly sales after the conversion and targeted ¥800 million in annual revenue for the complete Yaesu operation, with Celts and Hit Studio 60's expected to generate 30 percent. Twenty years later, the pub remains at the same Nihonbashi address, carrying one of First Kosho's 2006 experiments in entertainment-led hospitality into another generation of Tokyo Station nightlife.
Fish and chips supplies the clearest route into the pub's original concept, pairing thick white fish beneath a crisp fried shell with potatoes and tartar sauce before a pint resets the palate. Shepherd's pie moves the table toward deeper comfort through meat beneath mashed potato, its browned surface and soft interior working particularly well against the bitterness and carbonation of beer. Beef tenderloin pushes that relationship further through a Guinness sauce, bringing stout directly into the cooking as a darker counterpoint to the meat. Sausages then return the evening to uncomplicated pub eating, especially when several plates are shared around a televised match rather than ordered as formal individual courses. Irish Pub Celts Yaesu is at its best when the food supports the pint and the pint supports the room, allowing fried crust, potato, grilled meat and stout to carry a sports night forward.
How to fold Irish Pub Celts Yaesu into your trip.
Irish Pub Celts Yaesu works as the evening anchor for a route through Kyobashi and Nihonbashi that traces three different forms of twentieth-century cultural collecting before drinks near Tokyo Station.
Begin at Artizon Museum, descended from the Bridgestone Museum of Art that Shojiro Ishibashi opened in 1952 for his private collection before the Ishibashi Foundation assumed stewardship in 1956 and the institution reopened under its present name in 2020. Continue to National Film Archive of Japan, whose origins also reach 1952 through Japan's first national film library before Yoshinobu Ashihara designed the rebuilt Kyobashi center opened in 1995 and the institution gained independence in 2018. Conclude at Tokyo Station Gallery, opened in 1988 inside the 1914 Marunouchi Station Building, where the restoration completed in 2012 returned the station's prewar architectural character around a museum embedded directly within the railway complex. The progression moves from Ishibashi's private art collection through national film preservation into a gallery housed inside Tokyo Station itself, revealing how collecting, cinema and railway architecture accumulated around the district before the evening turns toward the pub.
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