Filter Notes Japan edition

The Friday Edit

Beans, gear and good finds. Every Friday.

Edition No. 10
25 September 2026

Shopping region

Local availability, prices and fresh coffee sources.

The Friday Edit

Excellent beans. Interesting objects. Once a week.

The new regional edit, every Friday. Nothing else.

01 / The cover story Object of the week

Craft you can feel

Japan's edit moves from a new 100V single-dose grinder through two ONIBUS coffees to ceramic, metal and glass tools whose material choices are immediately tangible.

Spotlight

Mahlkönig · Grinders

X64 SD — Japan 100V

The 64mm flat-burr X64 single-dose grinder in ONIBUS's Japan-market 100V configuration.

A new compact Mahlkönig whose external adjustment and low-retention workflow feel unusually direct.

JPY 96,800

Restock purchase live at ONIBUS; ships in 1–3 business days when checked 24 September 2026.

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02 / Fresh coffee 2 bags to know

Beans for the week

A short regional edit of fresh coffees worth brewing now.

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Beans

ONIBUS COFFEE · Coffee beans

Kenya Dundu AA

Kenya · Washed · Filter · grapefruit, dark cherry, black tea, herb

Dark cherry and tea structure make it a precise, savoury-edged calibration coffee for the grinder.

Ethiopia Worka Sakaro Ripe Cherry by ONIBUS COFFEE

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Beans

ONIBUS COFFEE · Coffee beans

Ethiopia Worka Sakaro Ripe Cherry

Ethiopia · Washed · Filter · strawberry jam, white grape, floral

A floral, grape-toned washed lot that shows a softer and sweeter face of the same careful brew setup.

03 / The objects 5 more to know

The gear edit

The objects making brewing more precise, more enjoyable or simply better looking.

Core gear

TORCH · Manual brewing

Mountain Dripper — Black Glaze

A Japan-made ceramic dripper with a removable wood ring, selected in black glaze.

The ceramic-and-wood construction feels hand-made while retaining a very simple brew geometry.

TSUBAME Wave Dripper — Stainless 155 by Kalita

Core gear

Kalita · Manual brewing

TSUBAME Wave Dripper — Stainless 155

The compact stainless Wave made in Tsubame-Sanjo, with the 155 flat-bed format.

It is a crisp example of Japanese metalworking applied to a familiar, repeatable brewer.

Core gear

HARIO · Manual brewing

V60 NEO 01 — Smoke Black

Hario's small NEO dripper with steep ribs and a smoke-black body.

Its reworked rib geometry makes the familiar V60 language newly visible without adding mechanism.

Original Handkerchief — Light Gray × Green by ONIBUS COFFEE

Small find

ONIBUS COFFEE · Accessories & oddities

Original Handkerchief — Light Gray × Green

A Japan-made ONIBUS and WHW collaboration handkerchief in the quieter gray-and-green colourway.

Distinctly local, practical and genuinely different from the usual tote-or-pin closer.

Small find

HARIO · Accessories & oddities

V60 Paper Filter 01 — 40

A 40-sheet Japan-market pack for the V60 01 format.

The inexpensive, useful closer that makes the NEO immediately brewable.

Editorially selected, never paid placement. Prices and availability can change; affiliate links are always disclosed.

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