Over 1,000 Starbucks in Japan

A Starbucks cafe at Dazaifu Tenman-gū shrine in Fukuoka

Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks on May 10th in Tokyo announced that the number of cafe in Japan will top 1,000 in 2013.
Japan would be the first region for the coffee chain to have more than 1,000 cafes except North America.
It opened the first cafe at Ginza, Tokyo in 1996, and had been managing 985 cafes across the nation at the end of this March. It plans to open approximately 65 more till the end of the next March.


スターバックス、年内に日本で１千店突破へ　北米以外では初　―SankeiBiz
http://www.sankeibiz.jp/business/news/130510/bsd1305101913009-n1.htm


"Silkworms Cafe" opened in Osaka

Which coffee chains do Japanese like?

Starbucks inside a city library

Coffee consumptions in Japan and the world

"McCafe" by Mcdonald's opened at Harajuku

Which coffee chains do Japanese like?

DOUTOR COFFEE

Coffee Shop of the Best Taste

1:STARBUCKS COFFEE
2:DOUTOR COFFEE SHOP
3:TULLY'S COFFEE
4:Komeda Coffee
5:UESHIMA COFFEE SHOP

Research
Term: 7/26/2012-7/30/2012
Respondents: MyNavi News membership users
Male:444 Female:556 Total:1,000
Method: Internet survey requires log on


-FACTS-
EXCELSIOR CAFFE, PRONTO, SEATTLE'S BEST COFFEE, CHAT NOIR, KOHIKAN and CAFE de CRIE are the other cafe chains you might often see in Tokyo.


一番コーヒーがおいしいと思うコーヒーチェーンランキング　―マイナビニュース
http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2012/08/09/003/

Starbucks inside a city library

Starbucks coffee shop inside library *image

Starbucks Coffee Japan will open a cafe inside Takeo City Library, Saga reopened after renewal in April 2013.
The city entrusts the operation of the library to Culture Convenience Club known for DVD and CD rental chain "TSUTAYA". The library with cafe will be giving "T-points" to users for each rental and open all year around. The expenses for commission will be 110 million yen($1.39M) per an year for next five years.


-FACTS-
TSUTAYA and GEO are the two largest DVD/BD and CD rental shop chains in Japan. GEO has comic book rental service also.


武雄市図書館へ「スターバックス」出店　―eBook USER
http://ebook.itmedia.co.jp/ebook/articles/1208/14/news054.html