Showa releases tickets on Tock 30 days ahead, at 12:00 PM PT. 22% of its dates had a table open up at some point.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 1,175 checks of Showa through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Book a Wednesday on Tock: a seat for two has shown on 25% of the Wednesdays we have checked, against 3% of dates overall. Seats appear at noon, 30 days out, and the seating is 6:00 PM.
Tock, with seats appearing at 12:00 PM, 30 days ahead.
6:00 PM. It is the only seating we have ever seen open.
Wednesday, at 25% of checks for a seat for two. Monday has never shown one.
No. SnagRes watches the calendar and alerts you by email or text the moment a seat appears. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the restaurant's own price. We never hold, resell or charge per reservation.
On the nights it serves, no. Across 1,175 availability checks, Showa has shown a bookable seat for two on 3% of the dates in its window, and the same for a party of four. The average hides a short week: a two-top has shown on 25% of the Wednesdays we have checked, and Monday has never shown one. When Showa is open, it is nearly always open.
Over the whole record, 22% of dates opened at some point, and we have recorded 1 release events. A Tock counter's calendar fills and stays filled on its busy nights.
Open rate, party of two: 3%. Party of four: 37%.
Wednesday, party of two: 25% of checks. Monday: 0%.
Showa books on Tock, and new seats appear at noon, 30 days ahead. The window rolls forward one day at a time. Tock rooms usually sell reservations as prepaid tickets, so the cancellation route is thin; the noon release is most of the opportunity for a Friday or Saturday.
Release time: 12:00 PM, one new date each day, 30 days out.
One sitting. Every opening we have ever recorded at Showa was the 6:00 PM seating; nothing before it, nothing after it. That is the simplest calendar we track: there is one seating a night, it is at 6, and the question is only whether your night has seats left.
The only seating we have seen open: 6:00 PM.
Before 6 PM: 0%. Prime time: 0%. 9 PM or later: 0%.
Book a Wednesday on Tock, which at 25% is a seat you can get this week. For a Friday or Saturday, be on Tock at noon a month ahead with your account set up and your card ready, and let something watch the date for the rare cancellation. Party size makes no difference; two and four sit at the same 3%.
Book on Tock. Seats appear at noon, 30 days out.
Try Wednesday. 25% of Wednesdays have shown a seat for two.
The seating is 6:00 PM; plan the evening around it.
No, and that is deliberate. SnagRes watches Showa on Tock around the clock and tells you the moment a seat appears, by email or text. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the restaurant's own price. Nothing is reserved, held or resold on your behalf.
Because you cannot say any of the above about a directory. SnagRes tracks 284 restaurants across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, with 61,530,416 logged availability checks between the rooms with a full record. Nothing watching tens of thousands of restaurants can tell you that one SoMa counter has one seating a night and is 25% open on a Wednesday, because nothing is watching it closely enough to count.
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Showa releases reservations 30 days ahead at noon, and its calendar runs about 30 days deep in our checks. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 3% of the dates in that window, so the release itself is the one real chance, and the rest come back as cancellations.
Because the tables that exist are gone at the drop. Across 1,175 checks, Showa has shown a bookable table for two on 3% of dates, though 22% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 1 release events there. 0% of the openings we have seen were between 7:00 and 8:30 PM. The seats you can actually get are the ones that come back when someone cancels, which is why an alert on the date beats refreshing.
Showa's calendar reaches 1 December on Sunday, 1 November at noon, and each later date follows the same rule: 30 days ahead at noon. Hours are local to the restaurant.
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