Otona no Shumatsu June 2026 Issue Spotlights Beer: Find the Best Pint of Your Life

This issue features a major special on beer. From bottled beer and draft beer that make familiar flavors feel exceptional to shops where craft beer shines, it guides readers toward the best glass of their lives. The issue also includes features on okonomiyaki and barbershops. The beer feature is designed for anyone seeking an unforgettable glass. The experience is compared to travel: moving, soothing, and energizing for tomorrow. It is the blissful taste that makes you want to go out just for that one drink, and the alluring flavor that feels as though it has invited you somewhere far away. The feature introduces shops where bottled beer, draft beer, and craft beer can be enjoyed at their best. The issue also presents restaurants in Tokyo where readers can enjoy the okonomiyaki culture of western Japan. Okonomiyaki sizzling on the griddle, sauce crackling, eaten piping hot with a spatula, becomes even better with an ice-cold beer. The guide covers everything from inventive and stylish Kansai-style okonomiyaki to Hiroshima-style versions that showcase impressive craftsmanship. This summer, readers are invited to get absorbed in okonomiyaki. Another feature takes a close look at barbershops as an oasis for adults. Instead of settling for a quick, inexpensive haircut, the magazine suggests taking time to enjoy a favorite barber. A barbershop offers more than just grooming. In the latter half of the feature, specialist salons present before-and-after transformations for hair and beards, promising an experience that may even change one’s life. The magazine says that with this one issue, readers can find delicious food without relying on online searches. It encourages readers to pick up what the editorial team calls the gourmet magazine most likely to be found in Tokyo hair salons. Main contents of the June 2026 issue include: “Beer is travel”; trips to drink exceptional draft beer in Hokkaido’s ES CON Field, Hiroshima, and a brewery stay in Shizuoka; journeys with sea, wind, and beer in Shizuoka, Kanagawa, and Chiba; the best places this summer for draft beer, standing craft beer, and understated bottled beer; a day trip by train to Saitama for beer and food; beer travel stories from the editorial staff; a feature on Kansai-style and Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki; barbershops as healing spots for middle age; and Father’s Day gifts from the Otona no Shumatsu mail-order club. Serialized columns include works by Yo Yoshida, Razwell Hosoki, Daido Moriyama, Mackey Makimoto and Takeshi Kadokami, Ai Kayano, Hiroyuki Isobe of [Alexandros], and others. Otona no Shumatsu June 2026 issue goes on sale Friday, May 15, 2026, priced at 930 yen including tax.