¡°Sorry, we¡¯re full,¡± I hear someone say as I open the door to Ladrio, a pre-eminent kissaten (traditional coffee shop) situated in a tumbledown alley in Tokyo¡¯s Jimbocho neighborhood.
I¡¯m naturally disappointed and yet a part of me takes solace in the fact that such an old place like this ¡ª slowly fading from the landscape of Tokyo ¡ª is still managing to draw a steady clientele.
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