相席カフェ – Aiseki café

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There is a new kind of café with an interesting concept in Japan.  It is called an “Aiseki café”.  Aiseki means “sharing a table” in Japanese, and in an Aiseki café customers share a table speed dating style.  Every customer has to switch tables a few times every hour according to the café policy.  The first one opened in June, 2015 in Kurume, Fukuoka, and another in August, 2015 in Ginza, Tokyo.  There may be more, but these are what I found online.  More Aiseki cafés are coming soon.  There are Aiseki bars & Aiseki restaurants also.