The Starbucks Espresso Journey Pops Up in a Shipping Container in Tokyo

<a href="http://www.nendo.jp/en/">Japanese studio Nendo</a> recently teamed up with coffee giant Starbucks to transform a standard <a href="http://inhabitat.com/starbucks-opens-new-reclamation-drive-thru-made-from-recycled-shipping-containers/">shipping container</a> into the Starbucks Espresso Journey - a pop-up shop in Tokyo featuring tall white shelves stocked with row after row of books. But don't expect to find <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_a_Geisha">Memoirs of a Geisha</a> there, since the books are oversized information leaflets wrapped in covers that represent each of the company's nine coffee drinks.

Rows of books line the white shelves of this new Starbucks pop-up in Tokyo

Designed by Nendo, the Starbucks Espresso Journey is designed to get people thinking more about their beans

The books are wrapped in covers that represent each of nine different coffee types

The oversized leaflets contain information about each one, as well as a perforated cutout of a Starbucks tumbler

When customers take their books to the counter, they get an actual coffee that matches the book they've chosen

And all of this is happening in a repurposed shipping container, which gives it even more "cool factor!"