Friday, October 31, 2025

Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Returning to the Present

Note: This post contains spoilers for Before the Coffee Gets Cold!

Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a 2015 novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. Originally written in Japanese, the novel mainly tells the story of four different people. Each of them travels through time for different reasons thanks to the unique time-traveling service provided by café Funiculi Funicula. Kawaguchi has since produced sequels with the same time-travel premise.