> Most of them seemed to be ran by an older man (70+, I’d guess) Yep. Stopped by two on a trip to Japan earlier this year and one run by an old man and one by

> Most of them seemed to be ran by an older man (70+, I’d guess) Yep. Stopped by two on a trip to Japan earlier this year and one run by an old man and one by a woman apparently 80+ years old (!). I had a great time but yeah feeling anxious in that for natural causes, many of these places will be closing very soon as their owners surely retire at some point. I do not think many have succession plans in place. Neither place I visited had any staff. The gentleman said he'd run the place by himself for decades. It makes one want to immediately make more travel plans to Japan as a sort of depressing "last chance to see"[1] type trip to go visit more of them. I'm upset I was only able to visit two. Much like how the amazing game centre culture of Japan has pretty much completely vanished from its 1990s era peak, I expect soon Jazz Kissas will be almost entirely impossible to find. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Chance_to_See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Chance_to_See