Mein Schloss is a beer hall restaurant with a brewery and a courtyard. I have once had a pizza that was like Pizza Margherita in the restaurant. The interior and atmosphere were very much like those in German beer halls I had seen on TV and more impressive than the pizza itself. Other people were eating sausages that also looked very German. You can feel as if you were in Germany. Under this corona period, the restaurant seems to take more strict measures than other places in Hamamatsu. They take customers’ temperatures and request customers to wear a mask when they walk around in the building.
This time, I just visited their shop on the left to buy the present. Behind the counter, there was a series of beer. I chose a set of four types of beer Schwarz, Alt, Helles, and Weisen. They were made in the brewery of Mein Schloss and labeled as “HAMAMATSU BEER.” According to the website, their products are made according to German Reinheitsgebot (purity order). This law was originally established by Wilhelm IV in Bavaria in 1516 and limited the ingredients of beer to just water, barley, and hops (yeast was added later). It is interesting to know that all these different types of beer are made from the same simple ingredients.
The shop of Mein Schloss has also some food from abroad such as pickles, cookies and gummi candies and souvenirs of Hamamatsu. I bought bottles of cucumber pickles and olives home.
In addition, I found some beautiful Christmas ornaments from Germany. It was funny to see snowmen in the middle of summer.
These wooden ornaments somehow reminded me of German bread Brezel. You can eat one in the restaurant.
In the Christmas season, the courtyard will have gorgeous illumination at night. Even in summer, it was nice to see with parasols and flowers.
Now it is almost impossible to go overseas because of covid-19. But even if you are in Hamamatsu, you can see something German in Mein Schloss, and there is also Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments that presents musical instruments from all over the world. It is just a few minutes walk from Mein Schloss.
Yesterday, my sister sent me a mail to inform that she received the beer. She said she would have it for dinner with steak and tortilla chips. I wished I could drink beer because tortilla chips surely go well with beer and the temperature was 40 degrees here, which I had never experienced before.
Mein Schloss
Address: 8-1 Chuo 3-chome, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka
Tel: 053-452-1146
Opening hours: Weekdays 11:00 - 14:30, 17:00 - 23:00
Saturday 11:00 - 23:00
Sunday and holidays 11:00 - 22:00
Closed: Monday, December 31 and January 1
Access: 8-minute walk from JR Hamamatsu Station
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