Tokyo has one of the most sophisticated coffee cultures on earth. The kissaten — the old-school Japanese coffee house — pioneered single-origin filter long before the West caught on. Today, Shimokitazawa and Daikanyama are lined with micro-roasters pulling extraordinarily precise pour-overs in minimalist spaces. Tokyo baristas treat coffee as a craft with near-religious seriousness.
Coffee neighborhoods
Japan invented canned coffee in 1969 — but Tokyo's specialty cafes are the antithesis of that: obsessively manual, quiet, and precise.
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