Uomaru
Fish from the port, sake from all over, and a counter you can stand at.
Uomaru Stand is a 2-minute walk from the east exit of JR Kusatsu Station, at 1-11-14 Oji. The kitchen sits in the middle of the room with the counter wrapped around it, so you watch the plate come up to heat from where you are sitting.
The fish comes directly from Tsuruga in Fukui and Tosa-Saga in Kochi. What arrives changes with the day, so the sashimi board changes with it. The one thing that does not change is the bonito: seared hard on the iron plate so that only the surface chars, and the inside stays raw.
Sixteen kinds of sake are on the list and they change regularly. There is a standing area as well as the counter, so stopping in for one glass on the way home is normal here. All 30 seats are non-smoking, and there is a terrace.