Cool, quiet kissaten Maasha offers this bargain morning set for a ridiculous ¥450 ($3). Only a few of us sipping coffee. In reading a sports newspaper, one on his phone, the third tapping away at his laptop. The only distraction is when a hit from the 80s comes on and I stop writing so I can sing in my head. Lionel Richie, Phil Collins, and the B-52s all transport me from Tokyo back to Minnesota.

Maasha 馬亜車
Chiyoda-just, Uchi-Kanda 2-2-1