7-Eleven Harajuku Omotesando Store — Konbini in Harajuku, Tokyo

This is a 7-Eleven branch, and a compact one, on Jingumae in Harajuku. What you notice first is how much is packed into a small floor: drinks, snacks and sweets fill the shelves, and four self-service coffee machines line up along one side.

The coffee machines are the practical draw if you want something hot while you walk toward Omotesando Hills, which is a short way off. For food, the shelves carry the drinks, snacks and sweets the space allows rather than a full grocery range, so treat it as a place to grab something small between shopping stops.

One feature sets this branch apart for travellers: a currency exchange machine, which makes it a sensible first stop if you land with foreign cash still in your pocket. The shop sits diagonally across from the Starbucks on Jingumae 4-chome, at the street where the Apple Store and Ito Hospital are, and Meiji-jingumae (Harajuku) station serves the neighbourhood.

The mobile signal in the store is weak enough that code payments often fail, and there is no self-checkout to fall back on. Bring a card or cash as a backup rather than relying on your phone.

Spend stays modest: ¥200–1,000 covers a snack or a bento, so it works as a cheap refuel rather than a sit-down meal. It suits anyone who needs something now, at any hour, on this stretch of Jingumae.