Coffee House Kahikan, Shimoda

Coffee House Kahikan (こぉひぃはうす 可否館) is a delightful little Showa-era cafe in Shimoda, Izu. The shelves and walls of the cafe are covered in tea cups and saucers. The one downside of this place is that it is still smoking-allowed - which I didn’t realise until we rocked up to its entrance and saw a sign on the door. We decided to give it a try anyway, and when we entered luckily we couldn’t really smell any odour of cigarettes at all and there was no one inside smoking at the time. Later on, one customer did get out their cigarette, but the smell of it wasn’t too strong so we still enjoyed ourselves. When we entered, the owner (a local grandma) looked rather harried and a bit overwhelmed by the number of customers (there were probably only 5 or 6 of us in the store in total) and warned us that it would take quite a while to get our orders served. Soon after that though, what seemed to be her two grandsons piled in with an energetic “tadaima”, along with their mum (I assume the daughter…