, is a
Japanese term for a cafe at which customers can listen to classical music while they are drinking
coffee
Coffee is a drink prepared from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulant, stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. It is the most popular hot drink in the world.
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and other
beverages. People can request their favorite music at many locations.
''Meikyoku kissa'' first appeared during the 1950s. Most people could not buy expensive
LP record
The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a ...
s, so they listened to classical music at the cafes.
Recently the number of ''meikyoku kissa'' has been on the decline.
See also
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No-pan kissa
''No-pan kissa'' (, literally "no-panties cafe") is a Japanese term for maid cafés where the waitresses wear short skirts with no underwear. The floors, or sections of the floor, were sometimes mirrored.
Shops generally operate under a "no-touch" ...
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Manga kissa
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Internet café
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Jazz kissa
Jazz kissa (), sometimes transliterated as jazu kissa, are cafés that specialise in the playing and appreciation of recorded jazz music. Unique to Japan, jazz kissa are spaces where jazz music is played for dedicated listening rather than as ba ...
References
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Types of coffeehouses and cafés
Classical music
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