It is said that the best coffee in the world is in Japan.

In 1988, the first coffee shop in Japan opened in Ueno, Tokyo. Today, Japan has become the world's third largest importer of coffee. The collision and fusion of eastern and western cultures makes Japanese coffee culture unique in the jungle of coffee culture in the world.

In cafes on the streets of Japanese cities, coffee lovers and tourists from all over the world are lamenting the unique charm of Japanese coffee. James Freeman, the founder of Blue bottle Coffee, the representative of the third wave of coffee, once said that he came across a life-changing coffee in a traditional Japanese cafe in Tokyo, Japan.

What on earth makes Japanese coffee of high quality? The answer still needs to be found in Japanese cafes and cafes.

The "Carpenter Spirit" contained in Coffee

CAFE DE L'AMBRE | Japanese coffee legend

CAFE DE coffee 39 is a legend in the Japanese coffee industry. His owner Ichiro Takaguchi is the oldest coffee worker in active service and is known as the "god of Japanese coffee". His name is as sacrosanct as Jiro Ono holding sushi.

Ichiro Kanaguchi's cafe has never been publicized, and there has been a steady stream of visitors over the years. The secret lies only in his love and focus on coffee. In order to make a cup of pure coffee, from the selection and purchase of raw beans to the use of a separate improved coffee bean baking / cooler to roast a small amount of coffee beans at home, in order to avoid roasting beans with different degrees of roasting affecting the overall taste, insist on a small amount of roasting and careful screening, even the filter has a unique way of preservation, and even the coffee pot is a custom-made Hakou pot!

If you want to see the focus of the craftsman, you must choose to sit at the bar. After ordering a cup of coffee, watch the barista grind the coffee beans into powder in front of you and concentrate on brewing a cup of mellow coffee. The taste is smooth and solid, it melts in the mouth like cream, and the acidity gently slips into the mouth, which is far from the bright sweet and sour coffee that is popular nowadays, but this simple but full flavor is full of vitality.

More than a charming coffee shop is hard to find, even though the taste is no longer popular, but its insistence on coffee is still a perfect interpretation of the spirit of Japanese "professionals". If you go to Japan for coffee, CAFE DE L'AMBRE really can't let it go.

% Arabica Kyoto | Kyoto's most popular espresso

President Kenneth Shoji is a coffee hunter in more than 60 countries around the world, using Hong Kong as a stronghold to carry out coffee import and export trade. % Arabica Kyoto, the first coffee shop in Japan, has become famous less than half a year after it opened in 2014, with a steady stream of coffee fans visiting from all over the world.

Sign a contract with the Hawaiian farm to ensure the uniform quality of raw beans, the use of raw beans imported, on-site baking methods to ensure the freshness of coffee beans. The coffee shop owner plays espresso and fancy coffee, and the manager of Kyoto's first Dongshan store specially hired Junichi Yamaguchi, who won the flower draw in the 2014 international coffee competition.

Before entering the store, the strong aroma of coffee has become unstoppable. You can not only choose different kinds of coffee beans according to your preferences, but also see handsome baristas making exquisite flowers in front of you. It is really the triple enjoyment of sight, taste and smell!

Blue Bottle Coffee | hand-brewed coffee is popular all over the world

Blue Bottle Coffee's first game in Japan was in Tokyo's Qingcheng Baihe, known as the "Japanese Coffee Battle Zone". Coming here is a bit like walking into a factory. Modern industrial style, quite a sense of design of the open space, staff wearing professional overalls, more professional sense. You can clearly see the warehouse in the rear, spotless and tidy. The coffee beans used by Blue Bottle are roasted and roasted on the spot, from baking to brewing and serving within 48 hours.

There are no fewer than dozens of coffee shops in Qingcheng Baihe area alone. Each has its own characteristics, from a classroom coffee shop where you can try to bake your own coffee, to a specialty shop that specializes in making fruit tarts from fresh fruit. You might as well look for incense, there will be a surprise waiting for you around the corner.

Delicious dessert is an indispensable theme

House Of Flavors | the most delicious cheesecake in Japan

Japan's "craftsman spirit" exists in a variety of industries, if you are a dessert lover, you must not miss the cheesecake known as "the most expensive and delicious in Japan". The owner of this shop called House of Flavors is a famous Japanese chef. After their marriage, she and her husband, Mr. Horuto, traveled the world and tasted all kinds of high-quality desserts. House of Flavours desserts are developed by the wife of the house, choosing the top materials, which are naturally expensive.

The cake is divided into two layers: sour cream and cream cheese. the cream cheese from Denmark is full-bodied and smooth, with the freshness of sour cream, the taste is so soft that it almost melts in the mouth. At the bottom of the cake is a thin whole wheat crust, crisp, soft and layered.

The prepared cheesecake has a shelf life of five days and has a different fermented flavor every day. Therefore, it is said that after a diner bought a cake, he divided it into five portions and tasted one piece every day to experience the change of flavor.

Chunwu | Premium Classical Cafe

Chun House is completely different from the ordinary coffee shop on the side of the road! The decoration of the store perfectly preserves the western style of the Taisho era in Japan, each piece of furniture is specially made, and the tableware is made of high-grade royal porcelain Royal Copenhagen, and only siphon coffee pots are used to keep the coffee mellow. The most famous desserts in Chunwu are desserts. In addition to popular goods, they will also launch seasonal limited products with selected seasonal ingredients, and each visit will have a different surprise.

Opening the door of Chun House seems to travel through time and space and go back to a hundred years ago, elegant housekeepers and maids were strictly trained professionals, from guidance to seating, ordering and delivering meals, all of which made people feel intimate and elegant.

In addition to coffee and desserts, these places can not be missed!

Osaka Daltonhori | Kansai back Kitchen

The most delicious in Osaka is the street shop, and Dawtonbori is one of the best in the food street. Here is a collection of all the street snacks in the Kansai area, not only the familiar crab Dole, Kansai style fried kebabs, Akishi (Kansai style octopus sauce), there is also a bite full of gravy of Osaka king fried dumplings, value-limited time-limited self-help delicious Osaka barbecue, white-collar workers after work drinking party barbecue restaurant and kebab restaurant.

South Hunan Coast of Kamakura | the scenery used by the Japanese opera emperor

Southern Hunan is a place where everyone in Japan knows. Classic cartoons such as "GTO" and "Slam Dunk" are all set here, and love dramas such as "someone you like" and "her in the Sun" are also filmed here, catching up with the sunny weather, the golden light shining on the sea at sunset, and the sanctity of Mount Fuji in the distance is more romantic.

Stretching for several kilometers on the coast of southern Hunan, there are ancient and quiet trams in residential areas, lively shopping streets with attractive fragrance, and century-old temples. Kamakura, which is only a 40-minute drive from Tokyo, is the most suitable place for literary photography.