No credit cards.
Displays recount the history of beer around the world and the science of brewing.
After learning how beer is made, you can taste the real thing in the bar-like lounge. No credit cards. Interactive museum-going at its best. The first spectacles appeared in Italy in 1280 but Japan had to endure blurry vision till the sixteenth century, when Jesuit priest Francis de Xavier brought a pair over. There's a large statue of him in the corner, a pair of glasses dangling from his hand.