The Kiyosumi-Shirakawa roasters

清澄白河の焙煎所きよすみしらかわのばいせんじょ

Where third-wave coffee reached Japan — Blue Bottle's first roastery, Arise, Allpress in a timber warehouse — on streets of low workshops and canals.

Worth itFood · Local life · Quiet · Walkable · Craft

Blue Bottle opened its first Japanese roastery in a Kiyosumi warehouse in 2015 because the ceilings were high and the rent was low, and a dozen roasters followed: Arise, All Press in a timber lumber warehouse, Fukadaso in a converted apartment building, Koffee Mameya's flagship. The district was warehouses on canals and still is — low, wide, quiet — with small galleries, a knife-maker, and the Fukagawa Edo Museum's reconstructed street. Sunday morning here is the calmest in the city: coffee, the garden, the museum, coffee again.

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A pour-over at Arise, from a single roaster who will tell you about the farm
Allpress's cathedral of timber, with the roasting drum at the back
Fukagawa Edo Museum, an Edo tenement street under a roof, with a cat on a shop roof

A hand-drawn sketch for orientation — each place links to an exact map.

Tip: Sunday morning at nine; most roasters open at ten and the garden at nine, so the garden comes first.
Best time: Sunday morning.
Allow: 150 min
Station: Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Hanzomon / Oedo lines)
Official site — hours, prices, closures: www.city.koto.lg.jp · Map