Coffee review

Three beautiful aesthetic cafes, which hide the most beautiful scenery in the city.

Published: 2024-11-17 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/11/17, For the exchange of professional baristas, please follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style) Japan has always been a country with well-developed coffee and tea culture. Today, I would like to introduce you to three Japanese aesthetic cafes and tea bars. Apart from delicious food, the space and overall design are commendable, so that you can enjoy pure Japanese afternoon tea in the bustling city. People who visit Japan will not want to miss such a great thing.

For professional baristas, please follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style)

Japan has always been a country with well-developed coffee and tea culture. Today, I would like to introduce you to three Japanese aesthetic cafes and tea bars. Apart from delicious food, the space and overall design are commendable, so that you can enjoy pure Japanese afternoon tea in the bustling city. Visitors to Japan will not want to miss such a wonderful place.

1 | Kaikado Cafe century-old store

Feel the power of a hundred-year-old craftsman

Kaikado Cafe · 百年老店

Kaikado Cafe is located in the direction of Kyoto Station towards Kawamachi, hidden in a cozy old-fashioned building. Looking into the store from the floor-to-ceiling window, I can already feel a quiet atmosphere and strength.

Kaikado Cafe · 百年老店 2

Walking into the store, I only feel spacious and bright, simple and exquisite. Nordic "HAY" and Kyoto time-honored brand "Nakagawa woodworking" home decoration compatible with each other; old houses, new pieces, coffee, tea, desserts, the ingenious integration of century-old tradition and modern life.

Founded in Kyoto in 1875, Kaikado is the oldest handmade tea can shop in Japan. It uses brass, tinplate, tin and other materials to design and make all kinds of utensils for preserving tea, coffee and other foods.

Kaikado Cafe · 百年老店3

The tea cans and coffee cans displayed in the store are all works that Kaihua Hall is proud of. Exquisite utensils with soft luster, simple appearance, traditional and modern, are exquisitely placed in every corner of the store. While tasting coffee and tea, guests can also feel the craftsmanship and strength of a century-old craftsman.

Kaikado Cafe · 百年老店4

Most of the cutlery, utensils, and soft clothes used in the shop are traditional Kyoto works, such as the cutlery of Kuo Hsiao Kan, the cups of Yuji's Asahi Shao, and the weaving "thin tail" of the West Front. While drinking tea and coffee, you can also experience the traditional culture of Kyoto.

Coffee and tea in the shop are strictly selected by the store, such as coffee beans from "Nakagawa WANI", black tea from "Postcard Teas" in the UK, Yulu Yanjin from "Lizhaoyuan Tea Shop", and dessert from "CHEESE GARDEN", bread combination (HANAKAGO SET), etc., which are really dazzling and make diners shout and can't stop. In order to ensure the dining environment, there are not many seats in the store, and it is often difficult to find one.

Kaikado Cafe · 百年老店5

One sunny afternoon, have a cup of mellow coffee, accompanied by a sunburn cup, in this time and space full of age, feel the temperature depicted by a century of craftsmen with their hands, Kyoto culture compatible with each other, perhaps "Kaikado Cafe" is a good choice.

Kaikado Cafe · 百年老店6

Address: Yoshimachi 352, Machiko Kawahara

2 | HIGASHIYA GINZA exquisite and fruit

Turn the Heguo store into a fashionable "tea salon"

HIGASHIYA GINZA 咖啡馆

The Higashiyama Ginza store is located in the fashionable Ginza district of Japan. A large amount of wood and glass are used in the decoration, so that the space has enough penetration, and the elements of Japanese architecture are added to the space details. The very simple and quiet design is full of gentle Zen.

HIGASHIYA GINZA 咖啡馆2

The shopkeeper adheres to the mood of love, fruit and peace, and creates the concept of "Japanese Tea Art Salon" which combines classical Zen and modern design. With this orientation, it is expected to arouse the love of traditional desserts among those who advocate fashionable coffee shops. You have a chance to taste thirty kinds of tea here.

茶房内用屏风区隔空间

Screen partition space in ▲ teahouse

With about 50 seats, it provides seasonal and fruit, tea, wine and cuisine. If you order any dessert and fruit, the store will give you a cup of matcha, so that guests can fully experience the taste after pairing with fruit and tea.

HIGASHIYA GINZA 咖啡馆3

The ingredients supplied in the store are all fresh and good in season, and the utensils matched with the food are also very exquisite and elegant.

HIGASHIYA GINZA 咖啡馆4

A cup of fragrant Kagoshima black tea, or deep-steamed fried tea, with exquisite sheep soup, bracken cake, kudzu powder, glutinous rice balls made from cherry blossoms, or seasonal persimmons, is not only a visual enjoyment, but also can meet the multiple demands of taste buds.

Address: block 1-7-7, central district of Beijing capital, block 2F

3 | Caf é KITSUNé Chao Cafe

The perfect combination of fashion and coffee

CAFé KITSUNé · 潮牌咖啡馆

The modern style cafe "caf é KITSUN é" with pine bamboo exterior walls, stone porches and wood interiors is hidden in an alley, so it is easy to miss it. By the way, this is a cafe under the French Chao brand Maison Kitsun é, which is convenient for guests to rest after shopping.

雅致的就餐区

Elegant dining area of ▲

The shop is surrounded by traditional Japanese wall decoration, which feels like a tea shop in the Showa period. Even if there is a socket on the wall, you will forget to take out the quiet space where the computer works.

用竹木混合搭建的咖啡吧台

▲ 's coffee bar made of bamboo and wood

定制手冲滤架,复古优雅

▲ customized hand filter frame, retro and elegant

The coffee in the store is made under the supervision of the famous store "OMOTESANDO KOFFEE". It is mellow and fragrant. The Heguo here is made in cooperation with the 500-year-old time-honored brand "Tiger House", a steamed bun with white taro skin and red bean stuffing called "Fox Fruit" and "Chestnut Golden Bean" named "Jade Fox".

The fox color and white bean sag are intertwined to symbolize the creativity and fruit of the fox fine hair, which is very popular with the shop guests.

Here, you can also taste little fox cookies with both beauty and taste, or buy some old records, or Maison Kitsun é beautifully designed peripheral products.

Address: South Castle Peak 3 Dingmu 171

The spring breeze is a little tipsy, and the flowers are full of beauty.

In this alternating day of spring and summer

I'd like to go to Japan to eat fruit and drink coffee.

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