Is it a home built by the owner, a store that sells musical instruments, a coffee shop or a venue for some live music played with some very different instruments..............yeh it's all of those things.

Just off to one side of a narrow winding road that ascends a moderately steep hill in Kamakura sits a nondescript little wooden shop advertising coffee and cakes. Inside it could be mistaken for a coffee shop, with all sorts of props intended to create some atmosphere for the hapless customers who come in to enjoy the coffee and cake. But then the very friendly owner gets across to you that he built the place himslf when he was much younger - the photographs testify to that when he pulls out an album of photos that show the progresss of the house being built, by a man who resembles the man who is showing me the album.

Musical instruments adorn the beautiful timber walls of this rustic shop. The owner tells me he is a member of a four piece band that get together regularly to play at various venues.

The real surprise comes when the man brings out a bamboo flute which he puts one end up to his nose and proceeds to make music. Yes folks this a nose flute!!

I never realised there were Japanese hippies but I think I may have found one here.