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