In a small alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully prepared coffee for more than a hundred years. This café offers its customers a unique experience: the opportunity to travel back in time...

From the author of "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" comes "Stories from the Café," a story of four new customers, each hoping to take advantage of the time-travel offer at the Funiculi Funicula Café.

Among some familiar figures for readers of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's previous novel, we meet:

• the man who goes back to see his best friend who died 22 years ago
• the son who was unable to attend his mother's funeral
• the man who traveled to see the girl he could not marry
• the elderly detective who never gave his wife that gift . . .

This beautiful, simple story tells the tale of people who must confront their past in order to move forward in life. Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to wonder: what would you change if you could travel back in time?