Cafe Unite, Tsukishima
If you’re in Tsukishima and you’re looking for great coffee, you’re going to have to do some hunting or walking, or both. Craft coffee places in the area are few…
Mermaid Coffee Roasters Sapporo
Sapporo is perhaps the busiest city in Hokkaido, the northernmost part of Japan. You would think that because of the year-round cooler weather, it would have many good cafes where…
Tor Road Steak Aoyama – Kobe
When you think about food in Kobe Japan, the first thing that you should think about is steak. The words “Kobe beef” should elicit images of beautiful cuts of steak…
葉亜葉 (Haaha) – Hiroshima
- Haaha (葉亜葉), is a quaint little neighborhood restaurant in Fujimicho, Hiroshima Japan. It’s about a 20 minute walk from the nearby Peace Memorial into the less touristy part of…
Petit Parc
Sengawa is a small town on the west side of Tokyo. There really isn’t any reason to be in Sengawa unless you’re a music student, because there is a music…
Little Goodies
This review is long overdue. I’ve been a patron of Little Goodies for a long time now, but I haven’t written a review until now because recently, they’ve changed their…
Good Eats by City Ice Cream and Coffee
Have you heard about those mom and pop stores that are hidden in a neighborhood that everyone talks about? You know, it’s like a secret neighborhood shop, they have amazing…
Alternative Coffee Works
Shinjuku has the world’s busiest train station. Before COVID19, more than 3.5 million people would pass through Shinjuku station on any given day. With this many people passing through the…
Voice of Coffee
As I was wandering around Kobe, just 5 minutes from the JR Motomachi station, I walked past Voice of Coffee. It’s easy to miss; other than a small sign on…
Hokodo Kako
Hokodo Coffee (放香堂加琲) in Kobe, Japan is Japan’s first and oldest coffee shop. Around 150 years ago, Japan finally opened up its borders to import and export; Kobe was one…