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Nijo Market area, Sapporo
A Japanese tea specialist retailing teas from across Japan, with takeaway tea and an eat-in counter for prepared tea and sweets. The shop was founded in 1933.
Best for Japanese tea specialist retailing teas from across Japan
Minami 3-jo Nishi 7-chome, Tanukikoji 7-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0063 / Sapporo / Japan
Founded 1927 (Showa 2) as the Tanukikoji 7-chome tea house; owner Annaka Michiaki still roasts hojicha at the shopfront.
Best for Shop-roasted hojicha from a Tanukikoji tea house founded in 1927.
Nakajima Park
This Sapporo coffee stand near Nakajima Park has sold specialty beans from Kenya, Mexico, and Central America since 2006, alongside drop-style brewing gear. The company also produces its own coffee podcast and ships free within Japan on orders over ¥5,000.
Best for Sapporo-roasted Kenyan, Mexican and Central American coffee
Marumi's shop near Nakajima Park sources specialty coffee from origins the company names directly on its site — Kenya, Mexico, and Central America among them — rather than describing its beans only by roast level or blend name. Based in Sapporo's Chuo ward since 2006, the roaster sells its beans alongside drop-style coffee makers, paper filters, and gift sets built around brewing at home rather than only serving cups on-site. The company also produces podcast content about coffee, an unusual choice for a shop this size and a sign that the business leans toward origin education rather than pure retail turnover. Domestic orders over ¥5,000 ship free, with smaller orders carrying a ¥550–¥650 delivery charge depending on region — a concrete detail that separates a real mail-order operation from a shop that merely lists an online store without actually running one at volume. For a visitor to the physical stand, the practical draw is a small-format shop built around traceable origins: beans that can be traced to a named country, brewing equipment sold to take that origin home, and a company willing to talk about the coffee at length rather than simply pour it and move to the next customer.
Sapporo
Sapporo Coffee Kan opened in 1982 as a coffee wholesaler, added charcoal roasting in 1984, and became a specialty retailer in 1989. Beans are sourced from farms including Brazil's Fazenda San Conrado; its signature product is a charcoal-roasted coffee yokan.
Best for Sapporo Coffee Kan opened in 1982 as a coffee wholesaler
Sapporo Coffee Kan didn't start as a café at all — it opened in 1982 as a wholesale supplier of coffee and tea materials, and only became a specialty retailer in 1989, when it rebranded as 珠房サッポロ珁琴館 and began operating its own shops rather than only supplying other businesses. The roasting identity came a few years earlier still: the company installed charcoal roasting equipment in 1984 and began what it calls authentic charcoal-roasted coffee production, a method it has kept as its signature rather than switching to conventional drum roasting as it grew. That signature shows up in an unusual product: charcoal-roasted coffee yokan, a traditional Japanese sweet reworked with the company's own coffee. Sourcing runs on direct contracts rather than open-market buying — Brazil's Fazenda San Conrado in the Cerrado region, Ugandan beans, Indonesian coffee from Bali's highlands, and multiple Colombian regions are all named directly. The company is now headquartered in Ebetsu, just outside Sapporo, with shops spread across Sapporo's Tsukisamu, Kitamaruyama, Odori, Otani, Kotoni, Atsubetsu, and Hiragishi districts, and it relocated its roasting workshop into a historic building in 2022. More than forty years after the charcoal roasters first went in, that method — plus a genuinely unusual sweet built around it — is still what separates this chain from a standard Sapporo coffee retailer.
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