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welcome back to greater flag i'm your
host jordan i'm here with sarah and alex
behind the camera and today we are in
tokyo doing something a little bit
special a little bit near and dear to my
heart we are checking out different
kisaten in tokyo do you know what
keystone
i do there we go do you guys want
kistana just in case you don't know
houston is a special type of uh of cafe
coffee drinking establishment in japan
and we're checking out three different
distinct types of cafe ready i need my
coffee my caffeine here i need my
caffeine bro let's
get it get it let's go all right
a short walk from shinjuku sanchome
station is our first location the
stylish edinburgh also known as coffee
kizoku named after its house kizoku
blend edinburgh serves siphon coffee and
is open 24 hours a day seven days a week
the prices range from 800 yen for the
original kizoku blend to an eye-watering
3 000 yen for their royal blend
we're at our first location cafe edward
also known as kizoka coffee known for
its
kizoku blend which is what i ordered
what do you order sarah i got a really
special cafe ore which is a blend of um
drip coffee and
like foamy milk it was really cool the
way they made it it was like i've never
seen anything in my life where they got
two pots and they pour the milk from
really high up it's like a table side
show i loved it this is like what i love
about cafes like he stands in japan like
he sends all this like there's something
interesting though it's always like a
different element depending on the cafe
you go to alex what did you get
yeah
it's now ten nine am 10 a.m good morning
ah first step of coffee of the day
i almost swore it's not good it's a
smooth blend of like milk and coffee on
my own see mine i got the the house
blend the kazoko blend and it's a siphon
made coffee so i haven't covered is a
way of making a different brewing method
so obviously you get your espressos
you've got your your drip balls your
handballs cycling coffee is a very
intricate
glass heating system to brew coffee
i've never done it i've only watched it
but i really want to get one i really
want one no they're so expensive is it
your house and i'll be like once i think
it's it's like it would suit it i would
love it but yeah things like it takes so
long to make it i'll be in the world
just like
jordan wait for the meeting i've got to
make this cough
it's like a heating element like a light
thing it's a whole show it's insane it's
a lot also i'm very hungry i haven't
eaten breakfast i was like so i've got a
bagel it's um a mozzarella cheese and
lettuce babel and for some reason they
gave me three pringles i've never
ordered a bagel and got pringles before
but thank you the great thing about
satin which is where we're at right now
they have really simple food and in the
morning that's what you want so it's
actually designed that way so the
difference between kisa pen and cafe in
japan comes down to licensing so cafes
have a different kind of food and
beverage license so they can serve
things like alcohol they can serve like
complex meals whereas to be a kisaten
you have a different license a cafe
license those licenses you can only
serve light bites things that you can
warm up so like your sandwiches your
basic meals but for people who like that
type of stuff like me it's like the
perfect place to go to because all i
want in the morning is a really good
coffee and a big old slab of bread
that's the morning is it good
nice oh no that will destroy the pringle
look how elegant he
eats
that's actually really good yeah
actually there are various different
types of keystones but one of the main
things that stick to aukey sense that
sometimes you're talking a in hush tones
it's a place where people drink coffee
quietly study you know if you look
around the customer currently people are
you know working away eating breakfast
having a good time but i do like that i
love that back home you can't get a
place like that because it just doesn't
exist and that's one of the great things
about japanese cafe culture it's quiet
i would love studying japanese while i
was studying abroad same it's just a
calm you know environment i think an
interesting thing is that this place
right now has like free wi-fi there's
charges it's plugs there's lots of
places there's twenty-five it's
twenty-five
it doesn't close that blue one it's
insane right it's so great this place is
called cafe edinburgh edinburgh you're a
british man i am pretty how do you feel
about that i was very confused because i
kept trying to search for this cafe
and every time i googled it it kept
taking me to edinburgh in the uk and it
kept like lagging my phone because my
phone's trash so every time i was like
no stop i'm trying to find the one
nation you sent your wig and it wouldn't
let me do it like every single one i'm
like homemade because i know me again
i'm going back to uk school are you
excited to visit some extension is it
something you do often i actually really
love cafes but something is something i
don't frequent a whole lot i do
occasionally in kyoto but in tokyo i
haven't so i'm really excited jordan has
researched this day i love kizusa times
we're ready for it so no i'm excited
right sure what tokyo has to offer yeah
let's uh let's set our next location
our next kisaten is monozuki founded in
1975 this beautiful kisa ten stands
proudly in the center of the shopping
street near nishi okikobo station
the stained glass windows and antique
clocks are a wonder to see and the soft
jazz inside makes you feel like you've
stepped back in time
monozuki offers a very simple menu black
coffee being the main attraction as the
key citizen has many different types of
beans on hand
so we've come to our second location
which is cafe monozuki in
of course i once again went for
the house blend hatsu what did you grab
i got something different i got a milk
tea
shall we come back a little compound oh
we've got something here
that's alex's egg sandwich tamago sando
yay lunch yeah and i got pan again
because
it's a different stylus look at that
thickness of that bread thick boy
honestly electrically slab of butter one
of the most the interesting things about
kisaten is that all those little bites
and things you can eat if you're not
really a coffee drinker but you want to
experience the kisa 10 atmosphere
there's still other drinks you can get
obviously that's you get your milk teas
you get your little bites but of course
there's also christina got a soda float
it looks so aesthetic like they have
these colors usually blue green red and
they have the ice cream on top alex got
a lemon tea so so there's always
something on the menu even if you're not
a big coffee person exactly so inside
this place there's no smoking allowed
it's a pretty smoke-free environment our
first location did have smoking inside
which is a i guess rare you would say
yeah i think used to before
everywhere smoking but yeah there was a
like a new law and now it's kind of
depending on the size yeah it's pretty
hard to find like a key setting nowadays
that allow smoking indoors well first
location led it but this one obviously
it's no smoking so you want a smoke-free
environment this is yeah it's something
for everyone you can find what suits you
you like it it's cool yeah and this
place is really small in comparison it's
very cozy cozy yeah yeah that's a good
word to describe it's got this piano
music it's good i think that suits the
kisatyan vibe having this jazz yes it's
the vibes it's been overpowering it's
been open since 1975. so it's like what
the facts but i got the facts but
obviously it's 1975. it is probably one
of my favorite cafes in this area as
well really beautiful honestly we waited
a while before shooting and my butter
is not melting who can melt butter well
do you want to use the heater
that's all right we're going to go in
for big bite you know what would be
great some vegemite
australian cafe vibes so do what to eat
would you like half oh my god yes give
me some of that toast boy thank you
there's something like really good about
japanese bread yeah kisatan japanese but
it's so so thick like usually when you
go to the supermarket you find these
like thinly sliced things you go to a
cafe and it's like boom
four times the thickness
thick if you're beautiful that gives you
like entire loaves of bread i'm using
those yeah they're like these cafes and
like you said you can go to they give
you just like an entire loaf of like
toast with like ice cream and cinnamon
in it it's the most it's like death by
carbs have you ever had have you had it
before
probably i had it once and i ate like
wait oh what was it the cinnamon the
oh yeah i've not had that i feel like
it's too sugary it's just i had it once
and i almost died like i i was so sleepy
afterwards like i ate too many clubs
like in the cafe you're like
nice
there's one other thing when you go to
something that you'll notice is that the
master is what they call like the
barista here
is kind of someone who's really really
passionate about coffee and they've got
like a lot of like history where they
probably have a story as to why they got
into it i love that passion
also you have some bread on your
toast is getting everywhere also talking
about that the master normally has like
a good passion for coffee which is true
so normally when i go to a keystone for
the first time i always get like the
house burn because it's always like a
blend that's been made in-house so this
one's made out of like i think mocha
brazilian colombia a little um
i think it's called it's really like
super
like a super clean blend but i really
like it but yeah let's um
let's finish off our toast our bread our
sandwiches our jam let's finish up here
move on to our last location let's eat
it all right
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owner kenji taramoto opens
a place where music and coffee can come
together as one the hand operated
gramophone is one of the largest in the
world and produces an amazing sound
comparable to a live performance at just
a short walk away from asagaya station
this special music kisaten is definitely
somewhere you want to visit we are at
our final location cafela vialon it's a
mei kyoku
mei kyoku kisa is a key cetera that you
can listen to music at oh right it's
cool so we already went inside it was
amazing oh my goodness
absolutely
i i really hope that we could capture on
video like how amazing the music quality
is there so
like uh the main cookie kisser isn't as
well known as the other kisa tens but
it's not as old to be fair it's only
been around since like the 1950s but
they are
fabulous so this has like the largest
grammar phone in the world like scoping
wall at the back that's the gramophone
and the quality of the audio was out of
this world it felt like we were watching
a live performance and the lat like it
was quite loud as well so you're really
like immersed and you didn't want to
talk to some that's what we're filming
outside yeah hopefully they have seeds
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
like inside you just want to close your
eyes just really let your ears take in
all every note
um amazing good fight right
done well bad stuff stop it stop it no
stop it stop it let's introduce what we
got today so i got um one of their
specialty is actually a like a brandy
coffee so it's normally served at night
time but this is a drink they whipped up
especially for me and it is i'm really
curious i've never had brandy with
coffee i've had the coffee um cocktail
what is it the espresso martini that's
pretty good yeah how's your brandy do
you know it's like it's very much a
black coffee there's a little like
of brandy soup in there i really like it
what'd you get what did i get the menu's
behind us by the way i got a coffee with
some milk i'm not feeling the caffeine
yet we've done well so far i'm feeling
like a good level i know i'm doing a
couple cups a day so i'm feeling pretty
pretty professional i'm pretty dealt
with when it comes to the coffee and
honestly what about this always got a
little cheesecake uh to round me off a
little bit it's pretty good it's pretty
good cheesecake i think when when it
comes to ki satan for me the focus is
always like coffee there's also
something called a um joyo kisa
something aligns that fact check
there it is that's what it's called and
it's called like a pure kisaten a pure
coffee shop and they actually only serve
coffee really that's all they serve like
morning tonight just coffee
you know what this reminds me of
like novels
like he always writes about being in
like jazz kissa yes right this is what
it is yeah i know i remember reading
them back home and when i wasn't in
japan that was kind of like visualizing
it this is it if you're a fan of his
novels please check out these kind of
sat them it sends you back in time to
like what it would have been like
i kind of want to come here and read it
we should challenge ourselves read it in
japanese oh my god oh should i actually
read it at uni in japanese like for a
class it was so hard yeah
which one did you read in japanese we
didn't know what it takes oh same it's
yeah i was like oh yapping my readings
trash
it was iq 48. that's a hard one in
japanese dude no wait i have a fun fact
about this then oh those are uh the way
they said it works there's records
everywhere and they're always playing
too into southern music but if you have
your own classical music record and you
want to listen to it in a very high
quality this is the place to go oh you
can just bring your own recording yep
hey that's right do you have
yeah it's a very cute neighborhood it's
very cute maybe we should look up some
recordings
get it come back i don't want to be the
one customer everyone's like playing
like smooth jazz classical music now i'm
like um queen
i wonder if you can play any kind of
music so long as you want to record
because there's like records for pop
music as well these days i don't think
it's no i i don't think you have to
approve it yeah send an advance an email
excuse me is this mp4 file suitable if i
get it into a uh please don't come here
please don't come with a power more
record and be like bro
bro can you bump this
let's listen to some baby metal oh hell
man the the clientele in most of these
like places especially the other day
it's like
older like a your jeep down your bike
you see displays lots of jican in there
i mean it is a what is that a wednesday
at 1 p.m wednesday at 1 00 pm they're
out and about drinking their coffee so
should tc just drop everything and yeah
i would love that so much to be so
[ __ ] cool i think my favorite thing
about this keysight in particular is
that there's live shows
yeah so there's live shows like every
day i think after six it says and then
also the third son of every month is
always a live show so it's definitely
something i want to come back to a live
show i want to see a live show
we'll come back and go see it but you
know until then i want to go back inside
chill out listen to some jazz for a
little bit but before that you know what
was your favorite uh cafe of the day
yeah 100 beskies it's just so unique
right yeah alex ferguson
oh i gotta say
i gotta say this one it really blew me
away like your socks off i didn't expect
it you walk inside that that wave of
music hits you oh it's just guys when
you open the door
music notes just literally coming off
the pages and yeah fantastic this was
really good what's cafe culture like in
your home country let us know down below
in the comments
yeah but until then you know i'll see
you guys next time bye bye from us
thanks for watching
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