Vikingess Voyages: Rakuten Café (楽天カフェ) Grand Opening in Shibuya

Rakuten is most known in Japan and throughout the world with its “online shopping mall” model where merchants are the ones who are making the actual sales. But on this Thursday (May 29th) Rakuten will have a grand opening of its first physical entity: The Rakuten Café!

Situated about 7 minutes away from Shibuya Station the café offers bestselling dishes and drinks from Rakuten’s e-commerce platform at a reasonable price. The café can thus be a great place for those who are interested in trying out some of Rakuten's most popular items.

The café offers you free wifi and has power sockets for all the seats, and has event spaces in the second and third floor. Various events will be held at the café, such as a Umaimono Taikai. The café is also a window for Rakuten to promote a wide range of its services such as the Kobo eReader. Another example is that people who order using their Rakuten Card can get 50% off their coffee or tea (Apply for a Rakuten Card and get 7777 Rakuten Super Points). You can apparently also earn Rakuten Superpoints just by visiting the café.