Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu KawaguchiThis is Fine Print First Copy Similar to Original but not Original. If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a caf that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffeethe chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the caf in the hopes of making that journey.