Blue Bottle Coffee Shibuya opens designed by Keiji Ashizawa
Blue Bottle Coffee Shibuya opens designed by Keiji Ashizawa
Blue Bottle Coffee Shibuya has opened, with design from architect Keiji Ashizawa, alongside volcanic ash-glazed tiles by Formafantasma – and cheesecake to match
At the new Blue Bottle Coffee café in Jinnan, the long bar is clad in Formafantasma’s ‘ExCinere’ tiles for Dzek
When the opportunity presented itself to take over the better part of a park in the quiet and trendy Jinnan area of Tokyo’s Shibuya district, Blue Bottle Coffee was quick to make the move. ‘We’ve wanted to open in Shibuya for a long time, but were waiting for the right location,’ explains chief brand officer Saki Igawa. The Californian brand has a strong foothold in Japan, and likes to seek out less-obvious locations. The first local store, which opened in 2015, did a lot to put the Kiyosumi area in east Tokyo on the coffee map, and the chain has also successfully transformed traditional townhouses in Kyoto into trendy hotspots for the caffeine-hungry.