Days at the Torunka Cafe
A Novel

I loved reading the author’s Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop series. 😍 Now I’ve started the Days at the Torunka Café series. The book is set in a cozy, quiet Tokyo café called Torunka, which serves as the heart of the story. ☕ It follows three interconnected, charac......more

Although I enjoyed reading Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, this one fell flat for me. The pacing was very slow, and the content was incredibly heavy, with a lot of themes featuring death, suicide, grief, and depression. I thought this was going to be a cozy, charming read, but it was anything but. No......more

Reading Days at the Torunka Café felt like stepping into a warm, sunny corner of Tokyo where time slows down and emotions are gently stirred . Yagisawa has a gift for crafting spaces that feel like sanctuaries, and the Torunka Café is no exception. It’s not just a setting—it’s a character, quietly o......more

A very cozy read! I enjoyed this so much!......more

This is a quiet story about loss, simple pleasures, and community and friendship, told very simply and methodically. It’s wrapped in the aromatic culture of coffee and mostly set in one cozy cafe in the hidden alleys of Tokyo. One part of the story felt a bit less complete to me but perhaps that’s j......more