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A specialty cafe born in "the best place in the world"-Akagiya Coffee

[Vickie] Nov. 30, 2011 08:30

Take the metro link you love today to Takashimaya ... that? Did you have a cafe in such a place? Then, I got off in a hurry and infiltrated "Akagiya Coffee".

 

Akakiya Securities is a building that towers dignifiedly at the Nihonbashi intersection, opposite COREDO Nihonbashi. I wonder if there is a modern cafe on the first floor there.

A store. JPG


       

A very stylish atmosphere. Despite being modern, do you say it's somewhere Nihonbashi-like?

 

The inside of the store is wider than I expected, and the counter on the left. I'm shy. Today's coffee is 290 yen. It's about the same price as a certain Starbucks. Looking at the back of the shop, I wonder if there is something particular about ... something big machine.

 

This is the "complete hot air method" roasting machine. It seems that there are only a few cars in Japan yet. Yeah. This machine has a considerable presence in the stairwell store up to the 2nd floor!

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Well, take today's coffee and butter toast to the second floor.♪ 

 

The brand-new wooden table and chairs are very nice. It's comfortable to sit down. I wish I had brought it in a novel, but it's okay! I secured a seat by the window overlooking the intersection. Here you can spend a lot of time while enjoying delicious coffee.

 

In 1929, Akakiya Securities took root in Nihonbashi, saying, "If you do business, you will be the best place in the world." Cored Nihonbashi across the other side was still "Shirakiya" ... it was an afternoon time to think about the history of Nihonbashi.

From the window, Nihonbashi Intersection. JPG

 

Today's coffee 290 yen, Atsushi cut butter toast 100 yen

 

Akagiya Coffee 2-7-1 Nihonbashi 03-3271-0011

This is a limited-time store opened with Akakiya Securities when it was rebuilt in 2014 (due to a redevelopment project around Nihonbashi Takashimaya) to "contribute to local people."