A photo of restaurants and drinking places constructed under the girder of old railway tracks in Shinbashi (新橋).
Shinbashi is known as a district for Salarymen which is a Japanglish word meaning people who work in a company or an organisation for a monthly salary. White-collar workers in Kasumigaseki bureaucratic district, Marunouchi / Ootemachi business districts as well as newly developed Shiodome Siosite are the principal clientele for the drinking places in Shinbashi.
Shinbashi is an entertainment district in Minato City but its character is quite different from those of Akasaka and Roppongi in the same city where they meet people for business talks or for showing off their knowhow, capacity, credibility, wealth etc.
In contrast, Shinbashi is for the same people to meet close friends, complain about their customers, criticise their boss, and release frustration (^_^;
Unlike Akasaka, Roppongi as well as Ginza in Chuuou City where bills are often paid at corporate expense, bills are paid in Shinbashi at salarymen's own expense.
It means bills are cheaper in Shinbashi.
Under-the-girder (ガード下 Gaado-shita) restaurants in Tokyo are now attracting tourists for its very Japanese ambience, which is the polar opposite of Akasaka and Roppongi where the international ambience is attracting Japanese youth.
