I'm your host Children.

I'm here with sarah and Alex behind the camera and today we're in Tokyo doing something a little bit special, little bit near and dear to my heart.

We are checking out different in Tokyo.

Do you know what Houston?

No, I do.

There we go.

Do you guys want to stand out just in case you don't know.

Houston is a special type of cafe coffee drinking establishment in Japan which I've got three different distinct types of cafe ready.

I need my coffee, caffeine hit, need my cafe bro.

Let's get it, get it, let's go a short walk from shinjuku Sancho station is our first location.

The stylish Edinburgh, also known as Coffee kiss Aku named after its house chiacu blend.

Edinburgh serve siphon coffee and has opened 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The prices range from 800 yen for the original Kitaoka blend to an eye watering, 3000 yen for their royal blend.

We're at our first location cafe Edinburgh, also known as cocoa coffee known for its vocal blend which is what I ordered.

What do you want to say?

I got a really special cafe order which is a blend of 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 tableside chill.

I loved it.

This is like what I love about cafes and things in Japan.

Like it's always like always something interesting that there's always like a different element.

That's what you get.

Thanks.

It's now 10 9 am, 10 am good morning.

First of coffee of the day.

So good.

I almost swore it's good.

It's a smooth blend of milk and coffee on my mind.

I got the house blend blend and it's a siphon made coffee, siphon coffee is a way of making different brewing methods.

So obviously you got your espresso is you've got your, your drip pulls, your handballs siphon 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.

I know that's so expensive.

That only wants to be like one second.

It's like, I would love it.

But things like it takes so long to make it.

So I'll be in the one just like, don't be late for the meeting.

I've got to make this coffee.

Yeah, 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 in a rush.

So I've got a bagel, It's a mozzarella cheese and lettuce bagel and for some reason they gave me three Pringles.

I've never ordered a bagel lingo of Pringles before.

But thank you.

The great thing about something, which is what 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 Japan 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 certain, you have a different license, cafe license, those licenses, you can only serve light bites things that you can warm up.

So like your sandwiches, your basic meals for people who like that episode like me, it's like the perfect place 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?

Oh no, they will destroy the Pringle.

Look how elegantly it's actually really good.

Actually there are various types of Houston's but one of the main things that stick with all these things that sometimes you were talking in hushed tones.

It's a place where people drink coffee quietly study.

You know, if you look around in the system.

Currently, people working away eating breakfast having a good time.

But do you like 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 a food.

It's just a calm environment.

I think the interesting thing is that this place right now has free wifi, that's charges placed 2024 hours a day.

It doesn't close.

Right, so good.

This place is called Cafe Edinburgh.

Edinburgh, you're a british man.

How do you feel about that?

I was very confused because I kept trying to search for this cafe and every time I go with it it kept taking me to Edinburgh in the UK and it kept like lagging my phone because my phone is trash.

So every time I was like no stop, I'm trying to find the one issue 50 cent told me and it wouldn't let me do it like everything because I know we're going, we're going back to the UK lets you excited to some extent today.

Is that something you do often?

I actually really love cafes but this 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 we're ready for it.

So I'm excited what Tokyo has to offer.

Yeah, let's set our next location.

Our next contestant is Mona's Suki founded in 1975.

This beautiful Kisa 10 stands proudly in the center of the shopping street near Nishi.

Okubo 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.

Mochizuki offers a very simple menu, black coffee being the main attraction as the key system has many different types of beans on hand.

So we've come to a second location which is Cafe Mona's aqui in and of course I once again went for the house blend hat.

So what did you have?

I got something different?

I gotta milk tea.

Shall we come back?

We've got something here that's Alex's egg sandwich from Uncle Sando lunch.

Yeah.

And I got one again because it's a different style is look at that thickness of bread thick boy, honestly, slab of butter.

One of the interesting things about 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 key certain atmosphere.

There's still other drinks you can get obviously that you get your milk teas, you get your little bites.

Of course it'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 the lemon T.

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 that have smoking inside, which is a, I guess where you would say.

Yeah, I think used to before everywhere smoking, but there was like a new law and now it's kind of depending on the size.

Yeah, it's pretty hard to find like a trend nowadays allow smoking indoors.

Well, first occasion let it, but this one obviously it's no smoking.

So you want to smoke free environment.

This is something for everyone.

You can find what suits you.

And this place is really small in comparison.

It's very, yeah, that's a good word to describe it.

But it's got this piano music.

I think that suits the vibe having this jazz.

Yes.

It's the vibe.

It's been open since 1975.

So it's what the facts are, the facts.

But obviously it's probably one of my favorite cafes in this area is really beautiful.

We waited a while before shooting and my butter is not melting.

Who can melt butter.

Well, do you want to use a heater?

That's all right.

We're gonna go in for big.

But you know what would be great.

Some bedroom light.

Australian cafe binds to do what to eat.

Would you like half?

Oh my God, give me some of that host boy.

Thank you.

Mhm.

There's something like really good about japanese bread.

Japanese, but it's so thick.

Like usually when you go to supermarket, you find these like thinly sliced things, you go to a cafe and it's like boom, four times the thickness.

If you've been to the entire loaves of bread.

I'm using those.

Yeah, they're like these cafes and like he said, you can go to the games just like an entire loaf of black toast with like ice cream and cinnamon and it's the most, it's like death by carbs.

Have you, have you had it before?

Probably had it once.

And I ate like always at the cinnamon then.

Oh, I have not had that.

I feel like it's too sugary.

It's just had it once and I almost died.

I was so sleepy after.

It's like I ate too many clubs like in the cafe like mm mm mm mm mm mm mm.

Thanks.

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, um, 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.

So we're 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 blend because it's always like a blend that's been made in house.

This one's made out of like, I think marco Brazilian Colombia no margin and I think it's called, it's really like super like somebody like a super clean blend.

I really like it.

Yeah.

Let's, um, let's finish off our toast.

Our bread.

Our sandwiches, RgM.

Let's finish up here.

Move on to our last location.

All right, owner kenji Tara moto opened viola, 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.

Just a short walk away from Asada station.

This special music is definitely somewhere you want to visit.

We're at our final location, Caravella violent.

It's a make a make, make your cookies a is a key certain that you can listen to music at, right?

It's cool.

So we already went inside.

It was amazing that Oh my goodness.

Absolutely.

I really hope that we could capture on video.

Like how amazing the music quality is there.

So Like the main cooking isn't as well known as the other kids attend because 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 gramophone 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 lab, but like it was quite loud as well.

So you really like immersed and you didn't want to talk to.

So that's why we're filming outside.

They have seats because inside you just want to close your eyes.

Just really, let your ears taken all.

Every note amazing on a good fight, right?

Has done well.

Stop, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it.

Let's introduce what we got today.

So I got one of their specialties actually a like a brandy coffee.

So it's normally served at nighttime.

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 cocktail.

What is it that espresso martini?

That's pretty good.

How's your brand?

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.

Did you get did you get the menus 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 don't drink a couple cups of days.

I'm feeling pretty, pretty, professionally, pretty dealt with when it comes to coffee.

And what about this little cheesecake to round me off a little bit.

It's pretty good.

It's pretty good cheesecake.

I think when when it comes to for me, the focus is always like coffee.