by Hiroko Yoda
1. Yogen Café (Café Prophecy)Hosts: Protestant ladies
Spiritual specialty: Fortune-telling
Pride and joy: Coffee
General feel: With its coffee-only menu and discrete, easy-to-miss pile of bibles and religious CDs sitting next to the cash register, one could easily mistake this spiritual mission of sorts for a Spartan little café.
Run by the Protestant church next door, Café Prophecy lives up to its name by serving up individualized spiritual advice along with its (quite delicious) coffee.
It's open only in the afternoon and huge lines of customers build up outside every day, meaning there's easily an hour wait to get a table at peak times.
Customers are asked to bring recorders along so that they can review their fortunes at leisure after the fact. Those without are charged an extra ¥100 (US$1.30) to receive the recordings on microcassette tapes.
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