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- Tourist Attractions
- Foods & Dining
- Amazake, a means to keep you warm on a very cold day
- An Exquisite Tempura Restaurant to People in the Know
- Cafe with a view
- Do you have a sweet tooth?
- Enjoy Pleasant Summer over Micro-brewed Beer
- Genghis Khan
- Handmade Furniture shop "Uguis" & Cafe "Bird Cage"
- Hideaway Cafe Free-Lance
- Looks Good and Tastes Good
- Muginowa Otaru
- Myoken Marche
- One of the Otaru's Delicacies
- Otaru Chocolate of Belgium Origin
- Otaru no Doughnuts-ya san
- Otaru's Micro-Brewed Sake
- Panju: classic sweet of Otaru
- Thirsty Soul, Fine Soul Music Bar
- Water of Otaru
- Music
- Miscellaneous
Hideaway Cafe Free-Lance
"Free-Lance" is a Jazz cafe which has been a popular place among jazz lovers for over 20 years. A live jazz or sometimes other kind of music performance by the local musicians is given at odd intervals.
The owner, Yasuyuki Kanda, is also a local photographer. His monochrome images represent the strange charms of Otaru in Hokkaido very well. You can enjoy those interesting photographs in this cafe.
Free-Lance is housed in one of the old stone warehouses which make a part of Otaru's unique townscapes. It is relaxing to be in this cafe surrounded by many hundreds of jazz and photograph collections. Mr. Kanda is not fluent in English, but he is willing to communicate with the customers in his broken English.
The cafe opens 12:00-midnight. Closed on Tuesday.
Please visit the webpage to find where the cafe is:
http://www10.plala.or.jp/free-lance
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