Kirinkan coffee shop [writing café].

#Hokusei(Inabe City)

Quiet space with "sound off" in a wooden school building

Kirinkan coffee shop [written communication café] is offline during business hours. This café allows visitors to enjoy conversation through written communication, sign language, and gestures.
Kirinkan is a closed-down wooden school building, designated as a nationally important cultural property. The natural sounds coming from the quiet school building provide a moderate background music, making it a comfortable workspace environment.
The old desks and chairs from the elementary school of that time are used here, and although it is not a space suitable for desk work, it is a space where work can strangely progress, perhaps because of its environment.
In addition, although it is a café, you can also experience a part of welfare for the handicapped.

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Fumie Kaneko

Co-chairman of mojicca LLC, representative of general incorporated association kinari, owner of Kirinkan coffee shop [writing cafe], and community nurse.
After working as a nurse and a teacher, she established the corporation in June 2020 and is developing her business under the theme of "welfare x art.
She learned about the world of the deaf through sign language she encountered in high school. With an approach that goes beyond the framework of welfare for the handicapped, she runs the [Writing Cafe] with the hope that not being able to hear is not a disability for anyone, but rather an experience of jibungoto.

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