Happy time to read while having a hot coffee. This time, the Japanese-style variety club picks up and introduces a coffee shop where you want to bring a paperback book and coffee is delicious, from Jimbo Town called the world's largest old bookstore town.
Actually, the town of the coffee shop, Jimbocho
Do you go to a cafe to enjoy reading? Do you have a time in the cafe to open a book? Do you want to read the book you got and sit down in the cafe? In any case, good coffee and books are a honeymoon relationship.
The city of Jimbocho, which I will introduce, has a close relationship with books, coffee, reading and cafes.
When the era moved from the Edo to the Meiji period, the university was set up in the area from Kanda to Kudanshita, and the city of students was created with Yashiki-cho and townspeople towns. Even now, it is the remnant that about 140 large bookstores and old bookstores line up from the Jimbocho intersection where Yasukuni Dori and Hakusan Dori intersect from the east side.
Jimbocho is also popular as a gourmet town with many curries and cheap and delicious Chinese restaurants in various countries, but there are several cafes and coffee shops, rather than coffee shops.
Jimbocho Cafe 1. Ladrio
Among the coffeehouses in Jimbocho (in this case, let's call them not cafes), the oldest is "Radrio", founded in 1949. The shop name is Spanish for bricks, but a half-timbered European building with wood and bricks is hidden in a narrow alley.
Although it looks like Jimbocho, it has a somewhat soft atmosphere, "Radrio"
There are a lot of things that can be seen in the fine cafe at Jimbocho, the feeling of anagura, curry, napolitan and purple smoke. It is an image of an older man. The "Radrio" also has these three points, but what is the feeling that there is a soft air somewhere, because the employee is limited to women since the first store manager? Let's reach for a paperback book placed on the shelf while tasting the wine coffee that this store offered for the first time in Japan.
"Ladrio"
Address Chiyoda Kanda Jinbocho 1-3, Tokyo
Jimbocho Cafe 2. Troubag
At the corner of the Jimbo intersection, in the basement of an old building is "Troiwabag". It is such a coffee shop that you would like to have a book and feel a little discouraged.
It is better for the old beans to be a little later than they were. Even after pouring in the cup, it is slightly different at the first and last eyes. The change was also described as the coffee's fun is Towako Miwa, owner of "Troiwabag"
The coffee, which is specially trained to keep it as good as the owner or part-time student, is from the old beans. I use roasted beans after being laid down slowly. It seems that the work of nel dripping to create the atmosphere of this shop's relaxed atmosphere and the atmosphere that can concentrate on reading like speaking.
A coffee shop in Jimbocho 3.
And one more, there is also a coffee shop for reading in the alleys just outside the bookstore. The first floor is a small restaurant. It is the “Unstable storehouse” located on the 2nd floor up the narrow and steep stairs beside the store.
Sounds of coffee beans, machine noises and tableware touching, speech and light jazz. The sound that flies in such a store does not interfere with reading, "Kosha Kura"
Mr. Hiroyuki Suzuki, who is the owner of the shop, is quietly putting coffee on the back of the cupboards such as Ginori, Wedgewood and Okura Ceramic Garden. The atmosphere is like a small hotel lobby. The deep roasted beans are coarsely ground and hand dripping with plenty more than usual is because it is hard to come out with a mixed taste and it will have a clean taste even in deep roasts. Many people spend a long time reading a book, and feel the spirit of the shopkeeper saying "Please take a rest" for the cushion lined in a wooden chair and the service for less than half of another.
"A stable storehouse"
Address 1-26 Kanda Jinbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Yazaki Building 2F
After visiting the bookstore, I went to a coffee shop and read a book. A time of traveling with books unique to Jinbocho, please visit once.
My motto is "I'm serious about being stupid", and I am having fun and having fun every day.
