Starbucks and Blue Bottle Coffee Tour Through Japan 🔵☕️

Whether in parks, cafés, accommodations, or public transport, we tried out every location – but we found cafés to be the nicest and most practical.

Blue Bottle Coffee particularly won us over. The aesthetic of the spaces, as well as the cups, was captivating. Whether in an industrial look or in an old machiya townhouse - the atmosphere was dreamily inspiring.

Starbucks was also a go-to place, since most guests there are working and you can really get into the flow. Plus, there's practically a Starbucks on every corner in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and South Korea.

Some Starbucks locations also have integrated meeting rooms and small pods that you can book by the hour or by the day, specifically for meetings or even more quiet.

Our findings: the acoustics vary greatly between the different Starbucks locations. You can work well in all of them as long as you have your noise-cancelling headphones with you, but joining meetings doesn't always work equally well, especially if you snag a table near the coffee machines.

There were days when we spent nearly 10 hours in one place, watched many people come and go around us, and even though - just like with typical office work - we barely moved, it felt like we experienced quite a bit.