While I read the first book, it was just a fun magical realism novel which was not so weird that there was nothing to it. There are a few more rules as well, but they are not as important, so you can catch on with them as you read these books. You need to drink the coffee before it gets cold in order to return to the present. If you get up from that seat while in the past, you will be forcibly returned to the present. The Fourth Rule: While back in the past, you must stay in the seat and never move from it. If you try to sit there by force, she will put a curse on you. There is always the woman in the dress aka the ghost sitting in that chair. The Third Rule: In order to return to the past, you have to sit in that seat and that seat alone. The Second Rule: No matter how hard one tries while in the past, one cannot change the present. The First Rule: The only people one may meet while back in the past are those who have visited the cafe. Because of the tedious rules & their application, most people don’t see the point of the time travel offered by the Funiculi Funicula Café. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?īasically, the idea behind these books is that you can travel through time to the past or future, but there are several rules which you need to follow. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. What would you change if you could go back in time? I’m glad I decided to do that, because I truly loved reading both the Before the Coffee Gets Cold books! ~~GOODREADS DESCRIPTION~~

But, this time I was keen on exploring a different Japanese author’s books. I had only ever read Haruki Murakami’s many books which were translated to English from Japanese. I must say, I have enjoyed reading both these books. Hi Readers! In the past two days, I read Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s two books: Before the Coffee Gets Cold and its sequel Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café.

Before the coffee gets cold book 2