For the Love of Coffee
In the 16th and 17th centuries, Dutch and Portuguese traders brought the first coffee beans to Japan via the port of Nagasaki, but there was little local interest. For connoisseurs of tea, coffee was considered bitter, and without the refinement, variety, and subtlety of tea leaves. It took until the end of the 19th century for the first coffee shop, or kissaten , to open in Japan.
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