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17 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.
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.