Blue Bottle Coffee Roppongi Cafe is a minimal coffee shop located in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Schemata Architects. Blue Bottle Coffee opened the fourth shop in Japan in Roppoingi, Tokyo. The shop is located on a back street at a distance from the busy avenue, facing a small sunken public plaza where people can freely enter. The design is based on the designers’ vision of a cafe staying beside the plaza and quietly embracing the environment. The main interior finish is basswood plywood, and the entire wall is composed of a regular repetition of wall cabinets with doors, while the strict regularity is moderated by inserting irregular grids of frames encasing several doors.

Photography by Takumi Ota