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Our cup of tea

A reviving Japanese brew.

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As our horizons widen and diaries fill up, our editors have been hankering after a long-delayed Tokyo stopover and some of the city’s signature hospitality. Few people lay on a better spread than Yusuke Mori; the 39-year-old is the sole butler at the beautiful one-guest-a-night Trunk House inn. He’s charismatic, obliging and liable to second-guess what you’re after before you ask for it. Oh, and as the picture shows, he’s rather partial to tea.

Yusuke Mori, butler at Trunk House inn in Tokyo, preparing tea in traditional Japanese room

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