Standing bars near Kanda Station

Tiny tachinomi by Kanda Station run single-handedly by its owner. Simmered beef tofu, rice-oil kushiage and daily obanzai dishes with sake. A reservation-only private room upstairs.

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Showa-style yakitori bar in Uchi-Kanda with standing on the 1st floor and chairs upstairs. 'One skewer, whole heart' is the motto; oden and yuzu tofu in winter. Bring a container to take stews home. Another shop in Higashi-Nihonbashi.

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Fresh sardine dishes and sashimi at the counter, paired with sake or a sour. Snacks from ¥380 keep the drinks flowing.

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Grilled motsu and meat skewers at just 110 yen a pop — a true taishu sakaba tachinomi spot with simmered motsu and nikomi on the side.

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Standing sushi and sardine sashimi, all priced between 110 and 220 yen — this tachinomi keeps it simple and affordable.

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Simmered dishes, sashimi platters, and a solid sake lineup — all around 1,000 yen. The fried stuff is worth a look too.

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Draft beer from ¥270 — help yourself to the fried snacks and the drinks keep coming.

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Niigata sake and dead-fresh sashimi at prices that won't hurt — a solid tachinomi find.

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Sake bar on the third floor in Kanda Kitanorimonocho. The owner, who also helps at the Tsukiji fish market, pours new-wave breweries like Ome's Towa and Oga's Ine to Agave alongside seasonal seafood.

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Kanda standing bar that is a coffee shop on weekday mornings and a bar from 2pm. Homemade snacks lead: sake-steamed Kujukuri clams, house roast beef and a vegetable-heavy offal stew.

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Drink-and-buy liquor shop in Kanda-Konyacho, 2 minutes from Kanda's east exit. Owner Shiraishi's craft beer, natural wine and sake at the kakuuchi with snacks. Frequent brewery events; solo guests welcome.

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Grilled motsu and simmered motsu start in the low hundreds — a tachinomi spot built for regulars.

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Spicy curry at lunch, tachinomi wine after dark — a hidden gem tucked under the tracks.

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Craft beer, ales, fried pasta, and bar snacks from ¥1,050 — a basement tachinomi where you pay as you go.

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Draft beer and bottled beer, a counter-focused tachinomi that's just right for a stop on the way home.

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Run by a fishmonger, so the shellfish and sashimi are as fresh as it gets. A seafood tachinomi where you drink it all with white wine.

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Dirt-cheap, smoky, and full of regulars — the kind of tachinomi that feels gloriously down-at-heel.

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Sip sake and snack while swapping stories about tropical fish. A Showa-era tachinomi where the tab starts at ¥1,300.

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Tachinomi in Kanda built on three pillars: motsuyaki, beef motsu-ni and low-temperature-cooked meat sashimi, with Kinmiya shochu up front. A senbero spot that also takes Tabelog reservations.

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Kakuuchi at a Kanda liquor shop founded in 1928, open evenings only. Daily-changing sake, Sorachi 1984 on tap, Suiyobi no Neko and other craft beers, highballs and wine. A liquor store by day.

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