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Glitch - Chuo City

Geisha

A cup and server of Geisha coffee on a wooden table at Glitch

Glitch is one of my favorite coffee shops in Japan. It recently expanded to multiple locations, and this is one of the newer ones near Tokyo Station. When you walk in, you are presented with a line of a dozen different coffees, ranging from quotidian to special. This is a place where you can spend $50 on a cup of coffee. It sounds expensive, but there are not many hobbies where you can have a "best in the world" version for that price (and have it be worth it). I drank a Geisha from Panama, the kind of coffee that sells at auctions. I have had even rarer coffees here in the past, like Eugenioides.

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A white cup of coffee on a small wooden table at Leaves Coffee Roasters

More Geisha

I shared a photo of Geisha coffee at Glitch earlier in the trip. This one comes from Hacienda La Esmeralda, a historic farm in Panama.

A barista pouring water into a glass coffee dripper at Koffee Mameya Kakeru

Pourover

Though the menu at Koffee Mameya can be innovative, they still serve high-quality coffees, such as this Panamanian Geisha roasted by Leaves.

A black coffee roaster inside Glitch

Roastery

I love the Glitch aesthetic and how deeply it commits to an all-black look. It works because of the mix of real materials: wood, ceramics, and metal, which all have texture and wabi-sabi.