Beer: It's an international word that generally needs no translation, although a trip to the Beer Museum Yebisu, on the former site of a Sapporo Breweries Ltd. brewery, sheds much more light on a process that is slightly more complex than simply "Open can/bottle, pour contents down throat."
The museum, which opened with the rest of the Yebisu Garden Place complex of shops, hotels and apartments in 1994, displays information dating back to 1887, when the Nippon Beer Brewery Co. was formed and the district was the village of Mita.
The trademark brew's present name of Yebisu, slightly different from the name of the nearby station, was adopted later and the beer has gone from strength to strength ever since.