JAZZ KISSA 2025

Product Overview:

• Author / Photographer: Katsumasa Kusunose (楠瀬克昌)

• Title: JAZZ KISSA 2025

• Format: Photo Book (Variant A4 Size: 210 mm × 278 mm)

• Pages: 148 Pages

• Language: Japanese (Mainly photography, accessible to non-Japanese speakers)

Background & Details: A breathtaking photo book documenting 30 distinct Jazz Kissa (traditional Japanese jazz cafes and listening bars) across Japan, photographed throughout the year 2025.

The book's afterword touches upon a poignant moment in Japanese jazz history: the 2026 closing of Shinjuku's legendary listening bar "DUG" (and its 1961 predecessor "DIG") due to urban redevelopment, marking the end of a 65-year era in Tokyo. As rising land prices in major cities make it increasingly difficult to maintain these cultural hubs, the true spirit of the Jazz Kissa is thriving in Japan's regional areas. From Kagoshima in the far south (featuring the ideal cafe "Junkokudo" on the cover) to the northern prefectures, this book captures the surviving and evolving spaces where the 100-year legacy of Japanese jazz cafes continues to burn bright.

Featured Jazz Cafes (30 Locations):

• Kagoshima: Junkokudo / CafeBar Jimran / JAZZ & Home-Roasted Coffee Paragon / Ragtime / Django / Luck Apartment

• Akita: Kenny Tone / Listening Cafe Hyaku / Rollins

• Iwate: Queen / Yasuragi no Yado Koyokan / Brew Note Tono / Cafe Morrison / Royce / Town Hall

• Miyagi: Vanguard

• Shizuoka: Coffee Agartha / Jazz & Kissa Figaro

• Gifu: Jazz Cafe Silly Putty

• Osaka: Interplay 8 / Play Off

• Hyogo: Doodlin’

• Kagawa: Fifty

• Tokyo: Panja / Altec / Funky / Crescent / Café & Bar Root Down / Jazz Nutty

• Fukui: THEE COFFEE