Before the Coffee Gets Cold: The Festive Edition - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Release date: 8th October 2026

Genre: Japanese fiction, contemporary fiction, fantasy

Pages: 224

Blurb:
What would you do if you could go back in time?In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel in time.

In Before the coffee gets cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to:- confront the man who left them- receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer’s- see their sister one last time- meet the daughter they never got the chance to know. But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold ...