Being a coffee enthusiast, I'd love to see more alternatives to the omnipresent Starbucks available in Tokyo. I mean alternatives that offer more traditional coffee brews and stay true to the original ways of coffee making. I'm particularly thinking of macchiatos and cappuccinos that have been redefined in the minds of many people by the coffee giant as sugary treats of steamed milk laced with barely discernible amount of coffee. Well, here's what I found recently at a Kinokunya shop near Tokyo's Kinuta Park. It's only a coffee-making vending machine but it was absolutely worth stopping by for its satisfying coffee flavour. I'm looking forward to some actual Costa coffee shops cropping up around Tokyo in the future to bring along a cozy setting for our coffee habits.
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