Since my last few visits to Japan were dependent on my status as young child wrangler, the topic of milk has loomed large.

Most of the milk (like the ubiquitous Meiji kind in a blue and white carton) tastes like UHT milk - because it is. But there are quite a few options that taste just like the fresh milk sold in the UK.

I'd dismissed the idea of drinking English style tea some time ago but as we've been going out of our way to get decent milk lately, as a bonus we've had a few decent cuppas. For a simple rule of thumb; if the milk comes in a small thick glass bottle it's fine.

The milk we go nuts for when we are in Tokyo is sold at Mavie

The main branch is close to Roppongi, but we use the branch at Azabu Juban (Mavie Organic Station)

http://azabu9.wix.com/mavie-plus#!informationmap/cc8p
or
http://azabu.organicstation.jp/access.html

It's an organic wine shop, but if you go in and turn left - there's the milk in a refrigerated section as well as some seriously delicious fruit yogurts and yogurt drinks. Not cheap, just exceptionally good.
Milk sold is this: http://www.rookyfarm.com/milk.html it is heated at 80C for 15 minutes.