13 Coffee Roaster; Gunma Coffee Shop No, 1

Alright! Hi guys! It is time to share the first ever Specialty Coffee Shop from my hometown 'Gunma'!! 

I know none of you has never heard of the name and has no idea where I am talking about! Don't worry Im not even gonna get offended by that!  It is evidently not the popular prefecture even you ask Japanese people about this place, some of them might not know the whereabouts. 

But geographically speaking, it is located just two prefectures above Tokyo toward he North! There is Tokyo, and Saitama ( which is another prefecture between Tokyo and Gunma) and then here we are my hometown 'Gunma'!! 

So it is actually not that remote to Tokyo!! It will only take you a couple hours by train!! It's bearable right??

Anyways that is a wrap of me explaining a bit of my hometown. 

Let's jump back into the main topic, so where i was born, I was already aware there wasn't much specialty coffee culture developed. In a place like Brighton where I use to live before, the number of coffee shops was hugely different! 

People here are still stuck with Starbucks or big chain which is fine and I am hoping this appreciation of specialty grade coffee will be prevailed soon!! 

However, there is this one little local coffee shop that is in Maebashi!. It is a city and I live in this town since baby,

It is called ' 13 Coffee Roasters'!! 

Address; 1 Chome-7-7-12, Wakamiyacho, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-0032

Website ; 13coffee.com

I noticed this place when I was still in Brighton, I was searching some good coffee shops back in my hometown, so once I get back, I still enjoy high quality coffee that meets my standard!! haha 

Then I checked this place on Google Map and I was like ' Yes!! ' coz it is actually not too far from our house!!  So one day I came down here to check their coffee!!  ​ ​Look at the first pic! That is the coffee shop look from outside! It looks really cool!!  It is all white based painted all around the wall.  And it is hard to see, but this shop is really tiny, you could almost say it is a bigger version of coffee stand. In fact, there is one counter table with a couple of seatings and a long chair outside, that is all!

Nice and small scale which I quite like about.

As soon as you stepped in, what you see in front of you is the selections of several single origins, their house blends named after the some famous mountains we have in Gunma, Akagi, Haruna, Myogi. I this it is a cool idea to take the name from those aspect!! 

They offer each one of the coffee brewed with french press for tester! You get to try whichever the one you fancy that you would like to give a taste.  Also those beans are freshly roasted on-site as you can see in the picture and the name of the shop!  In this small scale shop, it also roasts coffee within the site which is crazy! it has got small scale roaster, so it doesn't produce large batch size but seems to be big enough!!! 

At the back of the shop, there is a storage room where the green beans are kept at the ideal temperature just like a wine seller so that the beans are in the goof condition to be roasted each time!! 

The staffs seem to be really passionated with what they do and it is great for me as I can ask questions if I have.

Surprising enough of me though, I haven't stayed there to drink a coffee yet! One, it is small and interactive and all, but sometimes you just wanna chill out. haha ! I will have a go one day!  But I did buy a single origin coffee from there and brewed it at home with V60 it was quite good coffee!  I haven't got to try many coffees since I am back in Japan, but id say this is one of the best one I tried!  And I am glad that there is a decent coffee shop nearby and also does professional roasting!!! 

It's not really a place where I can highly recommend coz its quite far unless you start living in Gunma, but it might still be worth coming to Gunma I can show you around maybe!! lol 

Right, that is all for this !  I hope to put something up soon again ! 

​Cheers!! Y