Osaka
Eight-seat cocktail bar above a fish market. No signage, no website, the bartender works one drink at a time. Reserve.
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Vinyl-listening cocktail bar tucked above a curry shop. Bartender curates the music; whisky highball is the order.
Decades-old cocktail bar above a shoe store. White-jacketed bartenders, classic cocktails, seven seats. Don't take photos.
Hidden behind an unmarked door in a Namba alley. Whisky-only bar with a 200-bottle Japanese single-malt back-bar. Six seats.
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