kissaten

plural kissatens

1. uncountableusuallyA type of Japanese coffee shop.

   We went Christmas shopping around the eki, saw all the Christmas decorations, and had great desert [sic] in a kissaten. Everything was beautiful.

   2003 December 21, Ernest Schaal, “Protestor Damages Enola Gay”, in alt.native (Usenet)

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   In Japan, my sister, mother and I would snap awake at an impolite time and ease our way downstairs into the damp morning air. Nagoya, my hometown, has a rich and extensive culture of kissatens, or coffeehouses, some of which would open as early as 7 a.m.

   2022 October 25, Nina Li Coomes, “The Strange Comfort of Jet Lag”, in The New York Times Magazine