Before the Coffee Gets Cold

If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn’t so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time? [**Before The Coffee Gets Cold pdf**](https://chesserresources.com/doc/before-the-coffee-gets-cold-pdf/)

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  Funiculi Funicula Cafe, Tokyo · Japan

  time-travel cafe in Tokyo
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  Tokyo · Japan

  Tokyo basement cafe time travel
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  Jimbocho, Chiyoda, Tokyo · Japan

  Real Tokyo neighborhood the back-alley Funiculi Funicula cafe is described as being near
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  Sabouru, Jimbocho, Tokyo · Japan

  real-world basement kissaten that inspired the fictional cafe
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