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Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo

Liz Muller

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Designer
Client
Starbucks Coffee Japan
Floor area
3000.00 ㎡
Completion
2019

The Starbucks Reserve® Roastery Tokyo merges traditional and modern design sensibilities to deliver a unique and inspired coffee experience across all four floors. It is neither café nor factory but positions itself somewhere between. As such, the line between the customers and workers has been blurred to provide an immersive yet intimate experience for our customers.

From the first step inside, visitors are surrounded by a series of experiences clearly defined by varying programs, including two roasting plants, a four-storey storage silo, coffee experience bar, retail area, fully-functioning bakery, tea bar, cocktail bar, packing plant, and community space. Each of these experiences embodies our unique story of culture, history, and craft. Integral to the experience is witnessing our master roasters artfully shape the expression of each coffee, while baristas and mixologists carefully scoop, weigh, grind, distill, and steep beverages crafted for customers’ enjoyment.

The Starbucks Reserve® Roastery Tokyo is the only Starbucks Roastery designed and built from the ground up. It was designed in collaboration with a local architect, Kengo Kuma. With him, Liz Muller, Chief Design Officer at Starbucks Coffee Company, and her team of designers and engineers worked closely together to design one of a kind coffee experience - a destination for exploration and discovery.