The Coffee Kobo Philosophy

At Coffee Kobo ("Kobo" means factory), we roast, sell and deliver fresh coffee made from the world's most premium-grade, green coffee beans. We have found that even as we search for the quintessential coffee bean, a majority of the beans distributed globally lack the level of quality and freshness we wish to provide our customers. Though we are a small company, our ambition is a large one. We want to show Japan and the world just how wonderful a truly great cup of coffee can be. We're driven to achieving the perfect balance of floral, fruity and chocolaty notes in a clean-finishing coffee, and that is something that only the highest grade coffee beans, together with superior roasting techniques, can provide.

Coffee Kobo is guided by three inviolable conditions when roasting coffee.

1. # Use only specialty grade coffee beans
2. Use advanced roasting techniques
3. Sell only beans that have been roasted within the past 48 hours.

Toshihide Horiguchi, Coffee Kobo Owner and Roastmaster.

Coffee Kobo proprietor Toshihide Horiguchi is a leading authority on coffee and culinary arts in Japan, famous for his uncompromising dedication to quality and highly-discriminating palate. An author of several Japanese books on the subject and a mainstay on the seminar circuit, Horiguchi's aim is to enable people to discover the flavorful depth and beauty of great coffee.

Our Coffee's Distinguishing Traits

Coffee Kobo roasts are at once "fresh and clean, floral and fruity, sweet and bitter" with each distinctive trait perfectly tempered to complement each other and produce a profoundly fulfilling and sublimely smooth coffee-drinking experience.

Our Roaster

In the proper hands, our specially-designed, open-flame, rotary drum coffee roaster is capable of expressing mildly bitter, pleasingly acidic and elegantly sweet flavors from the coffee beans even with a French roast. Nothing is more unpalatable to us than a deep roast that tastes charred and excessively smoky.

Our Beans

We select only the choicest native varieties of beans, well-suited for dry and wet milling and grown with the utmost care in coffee-growing regions marked by high altitude, plenty of sunshine and good soil. The beans we use must be recently harvested and in prime condition when green.

Our Coffee

We think of coffee as fresh produce. We only ship beans roasted that day and then see to it that our customers receive them no later than the following day.

The Beans We Handle:

Address:

1-12-15 Funabashi, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Tel: 03-5477-4142
Fax: 03-5477-4143
E-mail: info@kohikobo.co.jp