Actually, Asakusabashi east of Akihabara offers more than Kanda in terms of izakaya and dining. While most of Kanda is fine, they have these strange women on the streets with a quite distinctive non-Japanese manner of grabbing your arm so persistently which is a bit scary.

Thanks for the advice. I think I will avoid this area, at least at night.

You don't necessarily have to avoid Kanda; you'd just have to avoid those con women, who are mostly at the south-eastern side of the station. What is strange about those women from the continent is that they come right after you and grab your arm after you've dodged them, ... so persistent.

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