🇯🇵 Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Nakameguro district, Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵

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Starbucks Reserve is a program by the international coffeehouse chain Starbucks. The program involves operation of worldwide roasteries; currently six are in operation. Also part of the program are 43 coffee bars preparing Starbucks Reserve products, what Starbucks considers its rarest and best-quality coffees, usually single-origin coffees. Starbucks' headquarters, the Starbucks Center in Seattle, also includes a Reserve Store, a marketplace and bar selling Reserve products. Some Starbucks Reserve coffee is also sold in about 1,500 of the chain's traditional outlets.

The Tokyo roastery opened in Tokyo's Nakameguro district on February 28, 2019. The roastery has about 3,000 m2, and was designed by Kengo Kuma and built with Japanese cedar. It is the only Reserve Roastery building purpose-built; the other roasteries repurposed existing buildings. The interior has four floors, each including decorative elements of Japanese culture. The first floor holds the main coffee bar, while the second floor holds a Teavana tea bar offering 18 different teas and tea-based beverages. The third-floor cocktail bar, branded a "Arriviamo Bar", has coffee- and tea-infused cocktails, Japanese versions of classic cocktails, and nonalcoholic cocktails. The fourth floor has the "Amu Inspiration Lounge", an event space planned to be certified as a training location by the Specialty Coffee Association of Japan.

Central to the space is a 56-foot-tall copper cask, made of 121 copper plates hand-hammered in the Japanese tsuchime technique. The cask holds roasted coffee beans, allowing them to settle and gas to escape before brewing or packaging. Around the cask are 2,100 copper cherry blossoms suspended from the ceiling, an homage to the nearby Meguro River, popular for its numerous blossoming cherry trees. Extending from the cask are copper pipes that deliver coffee beans across different areas of the store. The facility has two roasters, a 118-kilogram Probat G-120 and a 16-kilogram Probat P25 roaster, able to roast up to 1,800 kg of coffee each day. The coffee is used in the roastery and shipped to retailers throughout Japan.