kissaten

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 喫茶店(きっさ​てん) (kissa​ten, literally “tea-drinking shop”).

Noun

kissaten (usually uncountable, plural kissatens)

1. A type of Japanese coffee shop, developed in the early 20th century.
   • 2003 December 21, Ernest Schaal, “Protestor Damages Enola Gay”, in alt.native‎^[1] (Usenet):

     We went Christmas shopping around the eki, saw all the Christmas decorations, and had great desert [sic] in a kissaten. Everything was beautiful.

   • 2022 October 25, Nina Li Coomes, “The Strange Comfort of Jet Lag”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[2]:

     In Japan, my sister, mother and I would snap awake at an impolite time and ease our way downstairs into the damp morning air. Nagoya, my hometown, has a rich and extensive culture of kissatens, or coffeehouses, some of which would open as early as 7 a.m.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:kissaten.

Translations

a type of Japanese coffee shop

• Belarusian: кісатэ́н m (kisatén)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 喫茶店／吃茶店 (hek³ caa⁴ dim³)

  Mandarin: 吃茶店 (chīchádiàn), 喫茶店／吃茶店 (zh) (chīchádiàn)

• Japanese: 喫茶店 (ja) (きっさ​てん, kissaten)
• Korean: 끽다점(喫茶店) (ko) (kkikdajeom)
• Marathi: किस्सातेन n (kissāten)
• Russian: киссатэ́н m (kissatɛ́n)
• Ukrainian: кіссате́н m (kissatén)

Japanese

Romanization

kissaten

1. Rōmaji transcription of きっさてん