Australian-born specialty espresso roaster Single O has opened the doorways to its latest outpost in Tokyo, Single O Yurakucho, marking the model’s fifth café in Japan and its most central location but. Situated within the Lumine Avenue precinct, straight related to JR Yurakucho Station’s Ginza Exit—considered one of Tokyo’s busiest transport hubs—the 14-seat venue is Single O’s first café in a significant prepare station, and is designed to carry high-quality espresso and meals to one of the fast-paced places on the planet.

Constructed to serve the station’s 120,000 those who go by the station day by day, whereas staying true to Single O’s roots in Australian espresso tradition, the venue blends, high quality and effectivity with expertise—geared for morning commuters, lunchtime locals, and curious Ginza vacationers alike.

“The dream is all the time to make high-quality espresso accessible in sudden locations,” says Mike Brabant, CEO, Single O. “Yurakucho is a milestone. This was the imaginative and prescient once we co-created the Freepour Batch Faucets—to showcase and serve the wonderful high quality and style of the coffees we get from our producer companions all over the world, on the scale and pace of a Tokyo prepare station.”

Single O Yurakucho can also be the clearest expression but of the model’s pioneering batch brew faucet system—designed to ship high quality espresso at pace. The café options six free-pour faucets with the flexibility to serve 18 individuals each 30 seconds, offering a mixture of rotating single origins, blends, oat lattes, and matcha on faucet. There may be full espresso service too, with flat whites that includes Single O’s signature Reservoir Mix and a devoted V60 brew bar, together with three rotating single origins together with a Papayo bean from Colombia’s legendary Holguin Household and a washed Ethiopia.

 

Meals is equally suited to the setting, with choices together with Single O’s signature house-made banana bread with espresso butter, the Tokyo BAE roll, and Avo Present, alongside toasties and sandos all designed for takeaway or a fast recharge.

“We beloved this Yurakucho venue from the beginning. It has the weather we like at Single O. It’s on a busy nook, off the primary drag like our café in Surry Hills and solely a brief 500-metre stroll from Ginza,” says Brabant. “We designed it to pack the perfect of what we do in a compact 14-seat café, that’s snug sufficient for individuals to sit down down, whether or not they’re grabbing a fast takeaway or brunch. It’s all the pieces you consider if you dream of visiting Japan – wonderful high quality, quick paced, know-how’ all in a enjoyable and distinctive setting. Good for Single O.

To coincide with the launch, Single O can also be releasing its restricted seasonal mix, Firecracker. Impressed by Tokyo’s Sumida Fireworks Competition, Firecracker celebrates the vitality of Japanese summer season with a brilliant, fruity profile designed to go well with any brew technique. Out there as entire beans and Parachutes (drip espresso baggage), Firecracker is offered in any respect Single O Japan and Australia places and by way of the Single O web site.

In step with Single O’s ‘No Demise to Espresso’ ethos, sustainability is entrance and centre at Single O Yurakucho. The fit-out, designed by long-term collaborators, Australian design agency Luchetti Krelle, consists of tables created from recycled plastic by Defy Design, upcycled chairs made by Flange Plywood utilizing offcuts and different recycled supplies, Sludge cups by legendary Australian ceramicist Malcolm Greenwood, whereas coasters and serving boards repurpose inexperienced bean jute sacks as a part of the model’s ongoing Re:Jute initiative. The area additionally options an authentic paintings by famend artist Ryuji Kamiyama, persevering with the model’s historical past of working with native artists on installations of their areas.

The launch of Single O Yurakucho has been spearheaded by Yu Yamamoto, the model’s Japan basic supervisor, who has been an integral a part of the model for 16 years, becoming a member of the staff on abroad alternate by Single O’s Surry Hills cafe. Yama has since led the model’s profitable growth in Japan, heading up the launch of the unique roastery in 2014, the Hamacho cafe in 2021, Ryogoku and Shibuya in 2024, and Kanda and Yurakucho this 12 months. With extra openings on the horizon, Single O continues to develop its presence in Japan whereas staying true to its Australian roots.

Single O’s Yurakochu location is now open: 10am – 9pm, 7 days every week. The cafe is positioned at Lumine Yurakucho, Lumine Avenue, 2-9-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo – proper by the Ginza exit of Yarakochu station. Extra info could be discovered at https://singleo.com.au/pages/single-o-japan.

About Single O
Single O was established in 2003 as a café & roaster within the again streets of Surry Hills, by a few single origin lovers escaping the company world. Again then, it was a sea of stale Italian packet espresso & recent high quality beans have been onerous to return by. And so by necessity & sheer will, Single O led the cost on showcasing single origin coffees, together with third wave roasting and brewing in Sydney. Since then, Single O has grown to produce likeminded, quality-crazed hospos, from their bases in Australia & Japan (since’14). The OG Surry Hills café digs continues to be cranking & pushing the brewing envelope, extra not too long ago introducing the world’s first batch brew bar, Freepour Espresso On Faucet. Single O not too long ago opened its second Australian cafe in Newstead, Brisbane in September 2023, marking an thrilling milestone within the espresso roaster’s historical past.

In 2018, Single O launched its climate-change impression consciousness program, No Demise to Espresso, which spans throughout numerous initiatives. As a part of this system, Single O was the primary roaster to carry climate-resilient F1 selection coffees to clients, giving Aussies a world-exclusive style of the way forward for espresso and rallying the trade to enroll to the World Espresso Analysis. Banning a whole bunch of 1000’s of single use cups from landfill by a ban on branded single use cups because the model’s inception in 2003, additionally they co-created The Juggler with Botany neighbour Six Easy Machines, which has saved over 75million two-litre plastic milk bottles from the waste stream. Additionally a part of their mission to go round, Single O have partnered with Reground to divert over 40,000 kilos of floor espresso touchdown in landfill, with 70,000 kg of emissions averted thus far.

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