Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has teamed up with Starbucks on a coffee house featuring origami-like ceilings and trails of cherry blossoms, designed to offer customers a more theatrical experience.
The Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Tokyo is one of only five in the world, along with branches in Seattle, Shanghai, Milan and New York.
Unlike the brand's typical coffee shops, these large-scale roasteries offer a premium experience, with opportunities to sample rare caffeinated beverages.

The Tokyo roastery, located in Nakameguro, is intended to reference to Japan's landscape and traditional crafts.
Kengo Kuma designed the four-storey building, which has timber fins jutting out from its facade to accommodate balcony terrraces. Liz Muller, chief design officer at Starbucks, was responsible for the interior fit-out. Photo by Matthew Glac
A huge copper coffee-bean cask anchors the entrance of the venue, extending upwards through the building's four floors.
Measuring 16 metres high, the cylindrical volume has a mottled surface created by in a process called tsuchime, which sees a small hammer create a pattern of indentations.

Copper was also used to create hundreds of cherry blossom flowers, mimicking those that appear along the nearby Meguro river every spring.
These dangle directly in front of the cask on fine pieces of string, so they appear to be floating in midair.
Photo by Matthew Glac
The layout of the ground floor is open-plan, to "draw customers into an immer...