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    Tokyo's medicinal liquor revolution

    Ill? Hungover? Exhausted? There’s a yakushu for that. In Tokyo, traditional Japanese medicinal alcohol meets 21st century cocktail culture
    By Adam White / 06 Sep 2020
    A bartender making medicinal liquor in Tokyo. Credit: Andrew Faulk
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    An alley full of bars in Tokyo

    Credits: Andrew Faulk

    Yakushu medicinal alcohol

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    Bartender Nanako Hanamura of Tokyo's Yakushu Bar Sangenjaya

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    Customers enjoying medicinal liquor in a Tokyo's Yakushu Bar Sangenjaya

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    Ingredients of medicinal alcohol on the shelf

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    Dried wormwood flowers

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    jars of yakushu infusions and dry ingredients sit above antique bottles of triple sec, absinthe and pastis

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    Hiroyasu Kayama, owner of Bar Ben Fiddich in Shinjuku

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    Campari cocktail

    Credits: Andrew Faulk

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