I dropped by Kissa Sakaiki (喫茶茶会記) and had an interesting chat with Fukuchi-san, the owner and sole employee at the cafe. He's really attempting something unique with this place, combining elements of a European tea salon with Japanese touches (no shoes inside) with the standard Japanese jazz cafe menu. Fukuchi-san has a lot of ideas and is deeply versed in philosophy and art..just wish I was more fluent in Japanese as the conversation occasionally got away from me..

I have not yet been able to go to one of his frequent "record concerts", where customers bring records in a select genre and then listen and discuss them. Sounds like jazz-geek heaven to me so I'll get to one asap then report back on it.