Ochanomizu, Kanda & Jimbocho zone is the holy area for kissaten lovers. So it will not be a big surprise for you to know that I’m spending a bunch of time there! Few years ago one of my dear friend brought me to Omiya and […]
If you already heard about Nishi-arai once, it was probably about Nishi-arai Daishi temple and its Daruma. On Februrary 3 every year, you can take part to the Daruma Kuyo rituals, which is basically people bringing back their daruma dolls after their wish came true […]
I feel like recently I wrote a lot about Kissaten closing. It’s a little bit sad, right? So today I decided to bring some joy here and write about one of my favorite kissaten EVER. One that I’m visiting at least one or two times […]
Looking for a place where time stopped when Japanese bubble economic was blooming? Well, Galant is that place. Time literally stopped there in 1977 and every time I’m going there, climbing the stairs, it’s just like I was going to enter and find women wearing […]
Roppongi is sometimes underrated when it comes to kissaten. However, there are few nice places around that didn’t change for decades. Kaffa Bunna is one of those. I came here few times and I fully enjoyed every time. Even if I tend to like kitsch […]
Hakushaku has two kissaten in Ikebukuro, one at the north exit of the train station and the other one at the east exit. Even if the north exit one has a very nice ceiling, I tend to prefer the east one, smaller, more intimate. It’s […]
I really wondered to myself if I should write about Kayaba or not here as I consider it being an hybrid café, combining kissaten feeling and trendy café menu… The cute wooden building was built in 1916 (Taisho 5) and used to be a store […]
I’m pretty sure you’ve pass it many times without even noticing it, especially if your goal was Shinjuku Omoide Yokochō (Drinking Alley of the Memory), one of the best place in Shinjuku to get drunk and enjoy yakitori in old-fashioned food stalls. Tajimaya sits at […]
I can’t write about Kissaten in Tokyo without writing about L’ambre… You can’t imagine, only few minutes by walk from Shinjuku station, what is waiting for you there. I found out about this place only in 2015, what a shame! Coffee Shinjuku L’ambre (新宿らんぶる) Since […]
Ikebukuro always sounded like a huge amusement park for me with a bunch of kissaten and junkissa. I went all over those places, craving for the excitation of finding new places. Among all of them, Café de Paris, a real showa treasure, flamboyant and warm. […]
