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17 places across Japan and South Korea
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.
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.