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By Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The four visitors we meet in Before the Coffee Gets Cold each have different goals in mind for using the café’s time-traveling service: they want to meet their daughter they never had the chance to meet, confront the man who left them, get a letter from their husband whose early-onset Alzheimer’s has stolen their memory, see their sister one last time, and confront the man who left them.Café Donna Donna is legendary for its breathtaking views of Hakodate harbour and is located on the slopes of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan. Still, that’s not all. The remarkable experience of time travel is what Cafe Donna Donna provides its patrons, much like the little Tokyo cafe Funiculi Funicula.Serving skillfully prepared coffee, this café in Tokyo’s little back alley