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i'm going to share with you
my favorite coffee shops in tokyo
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so this video is for all of my coffee
lovers i know i've done a few videos
already featuring coffee shops here and
there
but i haven't done a video yet
showcasing
just coffee shops so in this video i
wanted to do
exactly that and show you some of my
favorite spots
around the area and so i'm not redundant
i won't show you the coffee shops that
i've already featured
but i will leave links in the
description so definitely check those
out
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said let me take you to the third wave
of coffee hitters
number one streamer coffee company so if
you're all about that latte life then
look no further
but beware you'll have to make your way
to the back streets of harajuku's cat
street they make a delicious cup of
latte with a
thick syrupy espresso packing three
times more coffee beans than average so
you're gonna get a concentrated hit of
that good good
the streamers is one of those go-to
spots that a lot of people in tokyo love
this spot that i'm here now in shibuya
is actually one of the
first spots but they do also have a few
other spots like harajuku gotanda
nakameguro and setagaya the shop was
produced by a japanese barista hiroshi
sawada who's super famous in the latte
art
industry what's nice is that they use
these customized espresso machines from
the us to make their original
cafe latte so today i just wanted to
show you a few of their special ones
so this is their standard cafe latte
which everyone loves right here
but i also wanted to show you that this
is their military
latte it has matcha and white chocolate
inside
oh for the matcha lovers and this is it
matcha itself
is not too strong if you like really
really don't like
matcha then it's probably still easy to
drink so you can probably still
drink this one i've had friends that
have had this matcha before and they say
that they're not fans of matcha but in
fact they like this so
it is something that you might want to
try if you don't like much so much
but you know if you do just like the
regular latte stick with that
and if you can get this raspberry one
this one is their seasonal hitter a
raspberry latte
but that raspberry the seasonal
raspberry is my favorite
in fact it's not even on the menu today
but i asked them for it and it's going
to be on there soon so
they were able to make it and just so
that you know they do have food to take
on to go with you with your latte but
since the shop focuses on making only
coffee the food is made by other local
shops
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number two sara tohiko coffee the bridge
two to the next stop is harajuku station
i mean really we're at the station this
hot one is located on the second floor
of the newly built harajuku station
building which is open
just last year on the south side of the
old wooden building the shop was opened
by a former actor tomoyuki otsuka and
got ultra popular with the quickness and
now there's 14
shops all throughout japan and even
three in taiwan the name side of tehiko
comes from a japanese god known for
opening up the path to all new things
and the shop itself is approved by the
official japanese shrine so its coffee
beans are often used as a wedding gift
to symbolize a new beginning
coffee truly blessed by the gods i got
their
standard coffee but it ain't that
standard it is
one of the best here in tokyo
that is coffee for the gods the original
shop is in a bee suit and it was founded
in 2011.
i wanted to show you that shop but it's
a little small it's about only 28
square meters so a lot more people will
go to this one so i wanted to show you
this one instead also something worth
noting about the coffee here is that
they make a really
good decaf in fact it's one of my gosh
favorite decal
especially when she had the baby also
today i decided to go with an old
barbecue sandwich you can see it's been
grilled on the outside
just like so oh look at that melted
cheese i love
pork and melted cheese
oh that's a bomb i love it a crispy
outer shell and a gooey inside it has a
juicy pulled pork melted cheese and then
a little bit of
lettuce in there hot coffee
and a hot sandwich can't beat that
number three kita sando coffee
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so this place is a little off the beaten
path but it is only three minutes from
kitasando station
it does have an interesting story though
the owner of this spot
is a former ceo for merpe and what he
wanted to do
was spread cashless pay so that this
place is actually cashless
so don't bring your cash bring your
credit card or they also have
apps where you can pre-order your coffee
and order it that way so today i got the
iced coffee
it's the poured over let me just have a
drink real quick
oh yeah that has that fruity flavor when
i chose the pour over coffee i chose the
kita sando version and this is kind of
like more fruity which i
actually prefer over like really really
bitter coffee so what you can expect is
they usually have a five to six
different types of coffee beans that you
can choose from every day
i mean just the fact that it has so many
different flavors to choose from
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let's move on to the next spot number
four about life coffee
brewer all the way at the top of
shibuya's dogenzaka you'll find this
amazing hole in the wall coffee stand
that's definitely worth the climb
and no surprise though that you'll find
a lot of bikes up here
foreign
so today we got the drippy drip coffee
guatemala version
and what's interesting about this spot
that i'm showing you now
is that it is just on the corner of the
street it's just this little
shop but they have the most amazing
coffee
what's really special about this place
is that they use friendship
roasters for example amameria espresso
in musashi kosugi
switch coffee tokyo and meguro onibas
coffee
and jugalka so it's pretty much like a
select coffee shop which is pretty cool
and therefore worth mentioning in
today's video
and they do have a lot of different
beans here but you don't need to be
overwhelmed because they do have a chart
which will help you kind of sort through
it so today they asked me like what kind
of flavors that i want and if i wanted
something a little sweeter and they
recommended the guatemala beans have a
little a sip of this
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oh man that's another
awesome flavor oh there you go that has
kind of like a sweeter taste to it man
these baristas that know what the deal
is all about
number five the local coffee stand this
shop used to be just near ayamagaku in
university
but recently relocated next to the trunk
hotel hidden on the second floor
it's become even more of a hidden local
spot
hello
all right so we just went to the local
really really popular joint that
deserved a spot in this video it has
just like a really
cool vibe in there like a very very
young vibe
and it was just a little bit too loud
for me to do the video in there so
i decided to go outside so that you guys
can hear me a little better it is
getting cold as you can see the steam
coming from my coffee right there let's
have a drink of this
so yeah i got the hand drip it's from
nicaragua again you can choose from
all different types of roasted beans in
fact this one
would be definitely definitely hard to
find now
before in their previous store like they
were on the first floor and they had
kind of like name of the shop the local
just on the window but now it is on the
second floor
but the coffee the people and everything
is still the same even kind of like the
vibe is still the same
so definitely worth checking out this
spot another
local spot from i guess the local
and number six the roastery also located
in harajuku's cat street the rosary
sells some of the finest single origin
coffee from around the world
where should we travel to today
us
all right so today we are all about the
hand
brew what i love about this place is
that if you get the hand brew you can go
to the back and they have
all of these different beans that you
can choose from they let you smell the
beans and they like have an explanation
for every single one today i got some
beans from costa rica
let me just try this right now
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oh this one has flavors like dark cherry
and raisin butter
also some milk caramel and honey this is
amazing and they even
roast their own beans here every morning
they do it unfortunately we're a little
bit late today so i can't actually show
you but they do it
every morning they also sell all the
beans here so you can buy it in a bag
and take it home with you which is also
pretty nice so those are my favorite
coffee shops i hope you guys like it， if
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