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34 places across Japan and South Korea
Café de l'Ambre
A coffee-only counter that has been aging beans since 1948.
Kissa You
The omurice that collapses when you cut it.
% Arabica Kyoto Arashiyama
A latte on the river bank at the foot of the mountains.
Nakazakichō
Pre-war houses turned into one-room cafés, ten minutes from Umeda.
Café Onion Seongsu
A bakery inside a factory nobody bothered to redecorate.
Ikseon-dong
A 1920s hanok block of alleys barely wide enough for two.
Yeonnam-dong
A disused railway turned into a long thin park, with cafés either side.
Momos Coffee
A roastery that produced a World Barista Champion.
Blue Bottle Kiyosumi-Shirakawa
The warehouse that turned Kiyosumi into coffee country.
Kayaba Coffee
A 1938 corner kissaten, still doing the egg sandwich.
Glitch Coffee & Roasters
Light-roast filter, taken seriously.
Meguro River Walk
Eight hundred cherry trees over a narrow canal.
Starbucks Reserve Roastery
Kengo Kuma built it around a copper cask.
Onibus Coffee Nakameguro
A two-storey house where the trains pass the window.
Fuglen Tokyo
Oslo coffee by day, cocktails after dark.
Ippodo Tea
Three hundred years of tea, and a room to drink it in.
Sarasa Nishijin
A 1930s bathhouse, tiled wall to ceiling, serving coffee.
Weekenders Coffee Tominokoji
A wooden hut at the back of a car park.
Uji Byōdō-in Omotesandō
The best matcha in Japan, on one short street.
Kitahama Retro
A 1912 brick office, now doing afternoon tea.
Takamura Wine & Coffee Roasters
A warehouse selling wine at the front, coffee at the back.
Samcheong-dong
The road up the side of the palace wall.
Anthracite Coffee Hapjeong
A shoe factory, barely converted, pouring coffee.
Fritz Coffee Company Mapo
A hanok bakery-roastery with a seal on the sign.
Buam-dong
A hillside village behind the mountain, with the Coffee Prince café.
Daelim Changgo Gallery Column
A 1970s rice warehouse, brick left raw, now a gallery café.
Dosan Park & Nudake
A quiet park ringed by the most designed cafés in Korea.
Onion Anguk
A hundred-year-old hanok with a bakery in the courtyard.
Insadong Tea Houses
Courtyard tea houses hidden off the main street.
Jeonpo Café Street
Machine-tool workshops that turned into coffee bars.
O’Sulloc Tea Museum
Tea fields to the horizon, and a green tea roll cake.
Aewol Café Coast
A coast road of cafés, all facing the water.
Anmok Coffee Street
Korea’s coffee capital started with beach vending machines.
Terarosa Gangneung
The roastery that made Gangneung a coffee town.