Café & Bar Opal featured in The Mainichi!
cafebaropalAn article about Café & Bar Opal, originally published in the Mainichi Shimbun, has been translated into English and published on The Mainichi — the English-language digital edition of one of Japan's major national newspapers.
▶ Read the article here: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260324/p2a/00m/0li/028000c
▶ Japanese article here: https://mainichi.jp/articles/20260306/k00/00m/040/165000c
The article covers the story behind Opal — why this little bar on the 8th floor of a building in Susukino exists, who comes here, and what we hope this space means to them. It also shares a bit of my own story as Mama Asami, and the ten "promises" we've made to everyone who walks through our door.
We are a small bar with 13 seats. But we believe that everyone deserves a place where they can simply be themselves — without explanation, without apology. That's what Opal is here for.
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See you at the bar,