Café
1. Glitch Coffee & Roasters
A Jimbocho roastery-café serving light-roasted, single-origin specialty coffee designed to bring out the character of each origin.
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2. Inoda Coffee Honten
The flagship of a Kyoto coffee house founded in 1940, serving nel-drip coffee and breakfast from 7:00 in a townhouse-style building with more than 200 seats.
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3. Marufuku Coffee Sennichimae Honten
Osaka's classic coffee house, founded in 1934, serving extra-rich drip coffee and copper-plate pancakes in a tiled, antique-furnished shop in Sennichimae.
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4. Francois Kissaten
A salon-style coffee house opened in 1934 beside the Takase River, the first café in Japan to be registered as a Tangible Cultural Property.
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5. Kitahama Retro
A British-style tea room and cake shop in a small 1912 brokerage building in Kitahama, serving afternoon tea and around 40 teas beside Nakanoshima.
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6. Koffee Mameya
An Omotesando coffee bean shop where baristas guide customers through a curated menu of beans from roasters in Japan and abroad.
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7. Fuglen Tokyo
The Tokyo outpost of Oslo's Fuglen, opened in Tomigaya in 2012, serving its own roastery's light Nordic-style coffee near Yoyogi Park.
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8. Saryo Tsujiri Gion Honten
The original tea salon of Gion Tsujiri, a Uji tea merchant founded in 1860, serving matcha desserts above its Shijo-dori tea shop since 1978.
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9. Takamura Wine & Coffee Roasters
A vast wine and specialty coffee store in Edobori that roasts its own beans, including Cup of Excellence lots, and won the 2018 Japan AeroPress Championship.
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10. HIGASHIYA GINZA
A modern Japanese tea salon and wagashi shop on the second floor of the POLA Ginza building, serving fine teas with seasonal sweets.
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11. Kaikado Café
A café run by the family behind Kaikado's handmade tea caddies, serving its own roasted coffee, Japanese tea and artisan sweets near Shichijo.
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12. LiLo Coffee Roasters
A Shinsaibashi specialty coffee bar opened in 2014, known for playful service, tasting cards with every cup and a rotating range of beans and blends.
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13. % Arabica Kyoto Higashiyama
The Higashiyama flagship of % Arabica, a coffee brand whose founder chose Kyoto for its first shop in Japan, on the lane leading to Yasaka Pagoda.
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14. Ginza West Ginza Honten
The original Ginza shop and café of Ginza West, a Western-style cake maker founded in 1947 and known for its leaf pie and dry cakes.
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15. Mel Coffee Roasters
A tiny Shinmachi roastery and coffee stand, open since 2016, roasting small batches in-house for excellent hand-drip coffee and cappuccinos to take away.
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16. Café de l’Ambre
A Ginza kissaten founded in 1948 that serves only coffee, known for hand-brewed cups and beans aged for many years before roasting.
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17. Rikuro Ojisan no Mise Namba Honten
A popular cheesecake bakery on Ebisubashi-suji in Namba, baking raisin-lined cheesecakes on site all day, with a tea room upstairs.
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18. Rokuyosha Coffee
A family-run kissaten on Kawaramachi-dori near Sanjo with a ground-floor café and a basement counter, both serving coffee from beans roasted by the family.
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