Tokyo
| This location, the first I visited in the Tokyo prefecture, has three stories, which is not uncommon in Japan, but rare in North America and the UK. | |
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| At this location next to the Kanda station, you can go up to the second floor and wave your coffee temptingly at the train passengers as they pass by. | |
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| The first location in Japan! | |
| This store is unique in that it features not only a fireplace upstairs, but a décor different from the standard. | |
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| Instead of an upstairs, this store features a spacious downstairs. | |
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| After visiting this Starbucks, be sure to head up to the 35th floor for a great view of Tokyo. | |
| The smallest store I encountered of the first 23 I visited. | |
| This location has a wooden terrace that is about the smallest I've ever seen. | |
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| This store with its cute yellow façade also offers a style of chair different from the ordinary. | |
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| This store, though small, features a different style of counter, benches, chairs, and something truly different--three mini counters jutting out from a partition in the center, and out-of-the-ordinary stools for seating. | |
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| Though the downstairs is small, this location has a cool, if vertigo-producing, spiral staircase leading to a larger room in which sits the longest table I have seen in any Starbucks anywhere. It's so long the wood is about three times thicker than ordinary, to keep it from warping I suppose. | |
| This three-story location actually has another staircase leading up to a fourth floor, but all I could see was storage for supplies. | |
| This store offers free Internet access on a couple of desktops and a laptop. I'm not sure who provided the computers, but the broadband access was provided by Tepco, an ISP with which the Starbucks shares building space, presumably as a promotion. The keyboards are quite cleverly covered in a protective plastic sheet. | |
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| This location offers no seating--only take away. | |
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| Look for this store's bathrooms outside and around the corner in the larger building's hallway. | |
| If you end up at the table in the corner of this store, take care that you don't shift around too much in your seat, otherwise the door will keep opening. | |
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| Though smallish, the façade of this location does pretty things with glass. | |
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| To my knowledge, the only (company-owned) store in front of a roller coaster, or in an amusement park, for that matter. | |
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| Unless I missed another access point, this store is behind the gates in the subway station, requiring a ticket for one of two subway lines. | |
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| Roppongi is a popular part of town, with Japanese and with tourists, so its no surprise to find here inside this Starbucks someone who could only be an American, the doofus. | |
