Don’t let the sliding shoji-style door fool you – this curious little shop isn’t a traditional purveyor, but a prohibition era-inspired hookah lounge. You’ll have to use your head to solve the puzzle on the shop’s website, which puts up a front as a tea shop website. But once you figure out how to unlock the virtual doors (pay attention to the little red arrows on the page), you’ll be granted access to this shisha speakeasy.
There are roughly eight types of standard shisha (¥2,500) and ten types of CBD infused shisha (¥4,000) to choose from, with flavours ranging from Sprite to lime with cypress and from yuzu with black tea to apple. As for the drinks, Chakemuri actually stocks an excellent selection of Japanese teas like Kakegawa matcha-infused genmaichawari, which is a blend of matcha and brown rice and wakochawari roasted black tea (¥600). If you’re after an alcoholic beverage, however, the shop has a weekly assortment of house-made liqueurs for fruity cocktails like strawberry and pepper sours, spiced tomato sours and lemon sours made with a shochu base (¥800 each).