Geisha
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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