Hot Chocolate on Thursday - Michiko Aoyama

Written by Michiko Aoyama
Read by Ami Okumura Jones, Daniel Bunton, Nicky Talacko, Winson Ting
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Series: Marble Cafe, Book 1

Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
Release date: 02-17-26

Across a bridge in a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo, a seasonal cherry blossom sits on the river. Nearby is the Marble Cafe, where a woman writes in a notebook and a young waiter prepares her favorite hot drink. Both wonder about each other and about the other lives of the clientele who frequent this charming little cafe behind the trees…

Without even realizing it, we may touch and change someone else’s life.

Taking a walk along the river, cooking the best tamagoyaki, ordering hot chocolate, forgetting to remove our nail polish… The small, everyday acts that we do can lead to unexpected encounters, reverberate far beyond our own circle, and ultimately make a difference in the world around us.

Hot Chocolate on Thursday is a tapestry of slice-of-life moments that each open and close with a woman ordering her regular hot chocolate at the mysterious Marble Cafe. What happens in between will touch and swell your heart, as we connect with a community of untold unfolding lives.