Samurai

I had the whole day off with nothing planned so I decided to make a journey to another cafe or coffee shop before going home. So after leaving Branche, I walked to Kinshicho for a little shopping and karaoke-ing. From there I walked to Kameido where an interesting sounding coffee shop / bar was said to be. The shop is called Coffee Dojo Samurai and the staff lovingly refer to it as Samurai. It's a rocking chair cafe, meaning that the bar chairs are all rocking chairs. The sign is an old Samurai sitting in a rocking chair drinking a cup of coffee. It's pretty fantastic.



So this shop is my new favorite. I told myself that I wasn't intending on revisiting shops because there's so many places out there but this place had everything I'm looking for in a coffee shop. The place is cozy and interesting. The coffee is really good and interesting as well. I had the rose coffee. And on top of that, the staff is very friendly. They must not get many foreigners and for them I was interesting instead of scary. One of the staff members
spoke a little English and he was determined to try it out on me. The other guy just humored my attempts to speak Japanese. I'm hoping to catch the master one of these days. And if I get there too late for coffee (I do need some sleep after all), I can always just go for a drink.

Order: Rose Coffee (¥450)
Review: I'll definitely come back.

Website: http://www.samurai-cafe.jp/
Access: Kameido Station (across from East exit)