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らんぶる- ranburu

Written by admin on Oct 16th, 2009 | Filed under: Japan: place

らんぶる
This word derives from French L'ambre as in Café de l'Ambre.

Ranbaru is how coffee-shops are called.  This is a place where they brew some fabulous coffee and labeled as "Coffee only". A must visit.

My favourite picture of Japanese ranburu -THIS.  This old deserted coffee-shop is at Takada-no-baba ( 高田馬場), Tokyo.

Though some kanji and hiragana had fallen down, it is still possible to recognize on the façade- 名曲らんぶる

名曲 --めいきょく --(n) famous music;

Another term for the stylish cafes - 名曲喫茶 (info at wiki)
名曲 --めいきょく --(n) famous music;
喫茶 --きっさ -- (n) tea drinking; tea house

Those used to be the cafes where one could enjoy classical music and coffee.

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