Step off a bustling Tokyo street, down a short flight of stairs, and almost instantly, you can wind up in Fort Worth. Or at least it feels that way. Takeshi Yoshino and his wife opened the tiny ...

Little Texas Bar n' Grill is a country music gem in Meguro City in Tokyo. From the looks of it on social media , walking into this watering hole is like walking into a piece of the Lone Star State.

Tokyo's Little Texas bar is a shrine to Texan culture, with walls covered in cowboy hats, Buc-ee's merch and memorabilia. In 2011, then-Gov. Rick Perry named owners Takeshi and Natsuco Yoshino ...

Takeshi Yoshino, the owner of Little Texas in Tokyo, was made an honorary Texan in 2011. Elise Hu/NPR "Every year for 21 years I've been back to Texas.