Yebisu Garden Place

This guide to Yebisu Garden Place in Tokyo traces how a whole Tokyo neighborhood came to be named after a beer, starting with the Nippon Beer Brewing company that set up here in 1890 and named its lager after a Japanese god of fortune. It follows the name's journey from bottle label to freight station to passenger stop to district, and the century the brewery spent working this same ground before production moved elsewhere in 1988. Listen for the red brick bones of the old brewery still standing at the center of the complex.