BAR

A bar is a bar, drinking shop.

When a signboard called "the bar" is raised in Japan, cocktail, whisky and water tend to point at a shop to take out mainly on liquor at a counter.

The bar of the type to offer by one cup of glass in particular is called shot bar (or, shot). A maid bar and girls bar, Boys bar and the singles bar are included in shot bar for a form, too.

In addition, it is a bar form, but it is not cocktail, and there is a store to offer mainly on another alcoholic beverages. There are beer bars offering a shochu bar, beer offering shochu as an example. There are the store which I do not put other alcoholic beverages at all and the store which I put to the other alcoholic beverages to these stores.

It is used for the purpose of enjoying a competition as well as liquor in the dart bar that a pool bar, the dart that billiards are possible are made. In addition, there is the business condition called sports bar setting up machinery relaying the sports watching games such as big-screen TVs, and there are a railroad bar (or, cafe) which featured the theme of a railroad or a radio control bar.

In addition, there is the institution where I do not offer food and drink called the oxygen bar to, but it is thought oxygen to be have used the word of "the bar" in the meaning of "the institution to provide" with in substitution for an alcohol.

There are various opinions in the etymology of "the bar" as the bar. The follows are opinions tied to the history of the bar in U.S.A.

The original form of the counter was a bar, and a drunkard was prepared by a sake barrel to prevent that I drank without permission.
Because, outside a bar, a bar to join by a horse was possessed. From here, it spread out as secret language.
The mounted times were over, and a bar became needless, but the storekeeper of a certain bar did not throw it away in an occasion of the remodeling and put it under a counter. Then it was it with reputation that it "was just good to take one leg", and the other shops came to imitate it. In that way the bar becomes the pronoun of the bar gradually, and it is said that I reach it in the present age.
When the examples which call the bar of the court a bar (it is a judicial officer / a lawyer) think, it may be said that it is nature that regard a state partitioning off a seat and the shop side at a counter as the etymology.