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Takahama Shrine · Doshisha University Coffee Club Saigetsu | How I Came to Love Coffee

Takahama Shrine · Doshisha University Coffee Club Saigetsu | How I Came to Love Coffee

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What kind of image do you have of “coffee”? I think there are many. My image when I was a child was that it was a cool adult beverage.

The reason I came to like coffee was that, when I was an elementary school student, I fell in love at first sight with a drip set at a hotel’s experience corner.

At that time, coffee itself was very bitter to me, and I, even as an elementary school student, admired the equipment.

After that, I kept making coffee just for the sake of the process, eventually learned to drink it, and before I knew it, I was a university student belonging to a coffee club.

That coffee life, which started from such a trigger, gave me many opportunities to grow through conversations and experiences at cafés I visited, and through meeting people in the coffee club’s activities. It also became one of the pillars of my life.

I think everyone has their own image of coffee.

However, coffee is both an everyday drink and a beverage that has formed its own café culture, and it is consumed worldwide, giving it many latent attractions.

Even if, like me, you come to like coffee from its form, I believe that loving coffee for any reason will someday become an asset.

Please go ahead and find and enjoy your own coffee life!

Activity Introduction

I am Ayatsuki from Doshisha University Coffee Club.
We are active on both the Imadegawa and Kyotanabe campuses, holding drip sessions and stalls. We hope our activities become a chance for coffee to become more familiar to many people.

Greeting to readers and enthusiasm for the event

Thank you for viewing.
We will do our best to provide delicious coffee and a good time at this Japan Coffee Festival, so we would be delighted if you could come!

Location

Suita Omiya Takahama Shrine | Mawarimichi - Osaka Prefecture
Shrine / regional cultural hub. Located beyond the Asahi-dori shopping street, it is the Omiya‑Takahama Shrine in Suita. Records show it already existed in Tenpyō 7 (735), making it a historic local shrine. It is known as a deity of protection from illness and disaster, as well as of learning and wisdom, and has deep ties with local merchants; many traders visit to pray during the annual Jūnichi‑Ebis (Ten‑Day Festival). Since 2018, it has also hosted the shopping‑street‑organized **Asahi Kos