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Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Down a small set of stone steps, tucked behind the Hakusan train station in Tokyo, is the Eigakan Jazz listening café. As the wooden door swings open, a wall of sensuous sound surges forward.

The listening café – or jazz kissa – is run by Yoshida Masahiro and his partner Kinuko Watanabe. At one end of the small, dark space is an enormous sound-system, hand-built by Yoshida-san sometime in the 1970s. An equaliser flickers above an old cash register.



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