Characters in Tales from the Cafe

Supporting characters

• Kazu Tokita

  The waitress at Cafe Funiculi Funicula who pours the coffee that lets a visitor travel through time, and who enforces the seat's rules.

  Also in Before the Coffee Gets Cold

• Nagare Tokita

  Kazu's cousin, the cook and owner of Cafe Funiculi Funicula, and Miki's father.

• Gohtaro Chiba

  A diner owner in his fifties who sits in the cafe's chair hoping to confront a secret he has kept for over two decades about the daughter he raised.

• Kiyoshi Manda

  A retired detective who travels back to see his late wife, Kimiko, once more on her last birthday.

• Katsuki Kurata

  A man recently diagnosed with a terminal illness who uses the chair to meet his former fiancee, Asami Mori, again.

• Miki Tokita

  Nagare's six-year-old daughter, who grows up over the course of the book.