The appearance of "Starbucks Coffee Hirosaki Koenmae Store" (Kamishirogincho, Hirosaki City) is currently being talked about online, saying "It looks like it has been 100 years ago."

The store opened on April 22, 2015 as the first store in Hirosaki city. For the store building, the former 8th Division Chief Building, which was built in 1917 (Taisho 6), is used as it is, and the exterior and interior have been constructed using the structure from that time. According to "Starbucks Japan," the store is the second case in Japan to utilize tangible cultural assets registered as a country after the "Kobe Kitano Ijinkan store" (Kobe, Hyogo).

The reason why it became a hot topic on the Internet was that Mr. Sumishita, who is from Hirosaki city and lives in the Kanto region, visited on January 5 when he returned home and took a photo of the appearance of the store on Twitter, "It looks like it has been 100 years ago". From posting. The post was subsequently retweeted by more than 18,000 and attracted a lot of attention from online users.

Mr. Sumishita said, “I posted because I wanted to show everyone the atmosphere of the store that was more attractive than I imagined, but I was surprised to receive an unexpected number of retweets. As a local person,“ good atmosphere ”“ Go I was glad to hear the reaction. "

Mr. Yuki Tanaka of the Starbucks Coffee Japan Public Relations Department appreciates the excitement on the net, saying, `` We are incorporating materials that are related to the land, such as materials and traditional crafts derived from the land, as a store design, I use Tsugaru kogin sashimi for Bunaco and sofa. If you can feel Hirosaki through this store, "he said.

Business hours are from 7:00 to 21:00.