We’ve been brewing moves in Tokyo since 2014, with 2024 marking our biggest yet – the opening of our Ryogoku roastworks and café, and the launch of our Shibuya coffee bar (July ’24). These join Single O Hamacho café, established 2021. Single O Japan represents Single O to a tee - roasting for the best specialty coffee community in the country. And rocking out retail stores that connect our customers, showcase our quality, and our spin on the spirit of Aussie coffee culture. Visit Hamacho and Ryogoku cafes.

In 2014, after a visit to Japan, we fell in love with the Japanese culture, passion for craft and eye for detail. We also noticed a gap in specialty coffee offerings, with an opportunity to source import and roast an array of single origins that the fine-tuned Japan palate would love. As for the how, long time team members (ranging from Dishhand, Barista, Roaster and more) Yu and Mamiko Yamamoto are formidable at the helm.

Single O Surry Hills was the first cafe globally to launch Freepour Batch, hot and cold filter coffee on tap. Single O Japan is the sole distributor for Freepour Batch throughout Japan. Designed and manufactured by Australia’s Six Simple Machines, Freepour Batch is right at home in Japan, where black filter coffee is favoured, and the speed, choice, novelty and ease is making quite the splash! Enquiries to info@singleo.jp

There’s no denying how strong specialty coffee is in Australia, from flourishing quality cafes, to our long list of barista champs. And it’s also clear that Japan is punching above its weight in coffee culture, from its long distinct filter history, to its emerging speciality scene that we’re excited to be a part of. Beans & Dreams in Japan? To give vending machine coffee a run for its money with higher quality (but still very convenient) batch on tap. And to share the Flat White up alongside the V60 Filter, melding the best of coffee cultures.