Hyogo cafe and coffee bean e-commerce business, assets included

What is for sale

This is a specialty coffee cafe in Hyogo combined with an online shop selling coffee beans and drip bags. The cafe serves coffee, latte-style drinks, light meals and sweets, and is located about a five-minute walk from several train stations near both a residential area and a tourist spot. The owner is selling due to a strategic review of their business direction.

This is an asset sale, so the buyer acquires the shop's equipment, stock, know-how and accounts, but will need to set up their own company or sole proprietorship and re-apply for the lease and any licences in their own name.

What is included

• Real estate fixtures/fit-out (leasehold improvements)
• Cafe equipment (coffee machines, fridges, ice makers, cooking gear, tableware)
• Inventory/stock
• Business name (屋号)
• E-commerce site and SNS accounts
• Recipes, supplier relationships and operating know-how

Strengths (as the seller states them)

• Established brand built around specialty coffee, with a loyal customer base that values quality
• Prime location about five minutes' walk from multiple train stations, near both housing and tourist attractions
• Full package handover of equipment, trade name, e-commerce site, SNS, suppliers, recipes and operating know-how, reducing buyer start-up costs
• Area is expected to see further development and foot traffic growth in the medium to long term

Wrinkles a careful buyer would ask about

• Shop premises are leased, not owned, so buyer must confirm lease terms and whether the lease can continue
• Transfer of SNS and e-commerce platform accounts may be restricted by the external platform operators and needs to be confirmed during negotiation
• Exact scope of equipment and inventory included needs confirming
• Supplier handover details need to be confirmed
• Net assets and detailed financials are not disclosed publicly; revenue and profit are only given as broad ranges

Paying for it

If you stay overseas. No Japanese bank will lend to a new company whose director lives abroad. The realistic stack is your own cash plus asking the owner to take part of the price over 2 to 3 years. That one question is in every Deal Pack.

If you move to Japan. On a visa that lets you run a business, Japan Finance Corporation lends up to ¥72M at about 1 to 2 percent for exactly this. Once you have a Japanese company, the government pays two-thirds of due diligence and registered-broker costs, up to about ¥8M (round 16 closes 6 Nov 2026). You start a bank relationship from zero.

What this listing says. A broker success fee of 1,800,000 yen (negotiable) applies on top of the TRANBI platform fee, though there is no upfront or interim fee; the text says nothing about any existing debts transferring or about personal guarantees on loans.

Full rundown, with the catches: japandealflow.com/money