Café & Sweets · Gion

Saryo Tsujiri Gion Honten 茶寮都路里 祇園本店

The upstairs tea salon of Uji tea merchant Gion Tsujiri, credited with popularising the tall matcha parfait. A Gion queue institution since 1978.

About

Tsujiri was founded in Uji in 1860, and its Gion shop on Shijo-dori sells tea on the ground floor while the Saryo tea salon upstairs serves the dessert that made it famous: the Tokusen Tsujiri Parfait, a tall glass of matcha ice cream, matcha jelly, chestnut, castella cake and shiratama dumplings. Other options include matcha with wagashi, matcha warabi-mochi and green-tea noodles. The queue often stretches down the stairs, but turnover is reasonably quick.

Highlights

• Original matcha parfait (Tokusen Tsujiri Parfait)
• Uji tea merchant founded in 1860
• Ground-floor shop for tea and matcha sweets
• Matcha warabi-mochi and green-tea noodles
• Central Shijo-dori in Gion

Tips

• Arrive at opening or after 19:00
• The ground-floor shop sells matcha soft-serve if you skip the queue
• Weekends can mean an hour's wait
• The Kyoto Station Isetan branch is an alternative

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