Tokyo · Food & Drink

Best Café & Sweets in Tokyo

33 places, each checked by our team.

• Asakusa Kagetsudo (Main Store) 浅草 花月堂 本店Asakusa — Home of Asakusa's famous 'jumbo melonpan', a giant, crackly-topped sweet bun baked all day and eaten warm on the street a minute from Senso-ji. A…
• BERG (Shinjuku) ビア&カフェ ベルクShinjuku — A 15-square-metre beer-and-sausage stand hidden in the basement passage of Shinjuku station's east exit, Tokyo's cult cheap breakfast and…
• Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Flagship ブルーボトルコーヒー 清澄白河フラッグシップカフェKiyosumi-Shirakawa — Blue Bottle's first café outside the US, in a converted Kiyosumi-Shirakawa warehouse with a roastery: the anchor of Tokyo's coffee district.
• Café de l'Ambre カフェ・ド・ランブルGinza — A dim Ginza coffee shrine open since 1948, famous for aged beans (some decades old) and flannel-drip coffee served in tiny cups. 'Coffee only' says…
• Chatei Hatou 茶亭 羽當Shibuya — A hushed, antique-filled coffee house a few minutes from Shibuya's scramble, famous for hand-drip coffee poured into cups chosen from a wall of fine…
• Coffee Hall Kugutsuso COFFEE HALL くぐつ草Kichijoji — Cave-like basement kissaten in Kichijoji's Daiya-gai arcade, known for its long-simmered curry and rare cheesecake.
• Coffee Kizoku Edinburgh 珈琲貴族エジンバラShinjuku 3-chome — 24-hour Shinjuku kissaten brewing siphon coffee, with light meals around the clock, Wi-Fi, power outlets and a morning set.
• Coffee-tei Ruan (Omori) 珈琲亭 ルアンOmori — A 1971 kissaten by Omori Station with a stone-and-brick European facade, film-set interior and theatrical drinks such as the swirling "Rose of…
• Daily Chiko (Nakano Broadway) デイリーチコNakano — The eight-layer, eight-flavour soft-serve tower in Nakano Broadway's basement, a wobbling rainbow of vanilla, matcha, ramune and more that's been a…
• Fuglen Tokyo フグレン トウキョウTomigaya — Oslo's iconic coffee bar transplanted to a Tomigaya side street: vintage Norwegian furniture, Nordic light roasts by day, inventive cocktails by…
• Glitch Coffee & Roasters (Jimbocho) GLITCH COFFEE & ROASTERSJimbocho — Light-roast specialty coffee from one of Tokyo's best roasters, in the book town of Jimbocho. Choose from a lineup of single origins tasted side by…
• Kaburaki 蕪木Kuramae / Okachimachi — Quiet coffee and chocolate house in an old building between Kuramae and Okachimachi, with a wooden counter and soft light.
• Kayaba Coffee カヤバ珈琲Yanaka — A 1938 corner kissaten at the top of Yanaka's main street, rescued from closure and restored with its black-and-white facade intact, locals come for…
• Kissa Gion (Asagaya) 喫茶 gionAsagaya — A dreamy 1980s kissaten by Asagaya Station's north exit with swing seats hanging from the ceiling, chandeliers, plants and cherub figures, famous…
• Koffee Mameya Kakeru KOFFEE MAMEYA -Kakeru-Kiyosumi-Shirakawa — Tokyo's most talked-about coffee experience: a sleek omakase-style coffee bar in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa where baristas serve multi-course tastings of…
• Kurumed Coffee クルミドコーヒーNishi-Kokubunji — A fairytale walnut-themed café by Nishi-Kokubunji Station where you duck through a tiny door into a wooden, book-filled den, and order…
• Marion Crêpes Harajuku マリオンクレープ 原宿竹下通り店Harajuku — The crêpe stand that started Harajuku's crêpe culture in 1977, with a wall of plastic food models showing dozens of wrapped crêpes stuffed with…
• Meikyoku Kissa Lion 名曲喫茶ライオンDogenzaka — Shibuya's classical-music café since 1926: church-pew seating facing a giant wooden speaker, hushed silence, and scheduled concerts on vinyl twice a…
• Monzen Toraya (Shibamata) 門前とらやShibamata — The Meiji-era dango shop on the Shibamata sando that served as the Kurumaya dumpling shop in the first four Tora-san films, still selling kusa-dango…
• Onibus Coffee Nakameguro オニバスコーヒー 中目黒店Nakameguro — A tiny two-storey specialty-coffee house next to the train tracks in Nakameguro, famous on Instagram for its upstairs window view of passing Tokyu…
• Pelican Cafe ペリカンカフェAsakusa / Tawaramachi — Cafe of Pelican, the Tawaramachi bakery making only loaves and rolls since 1942, serving thick toast, fruit sandwiches and coffee.
• Sabouru さぼうるJimbocho — Jimbocho's cave-like 1955 kissaten, with carved wood, graffiti-scratched walls and a totem pole at the door, where students and booksellers eat…
• Sarutahiko Coffee Ebisu (The Original) 猿田彦珈琲 恵比寿本店Ebisu — The tiny Ebisu shop where Tokyo's best-known homegrown specialty coffee chain started in 2011. Friendly, small and excellent.
• Shiro-Hige's Cream Puff Factory 白髭のシュークリーム工房Setagaya (Daita) — The only officially licensed Totoro bakery: cream puffs shaped like My Neighbor Totoro, each with a tiny leaf on its head, sold from a fairy-tale…
• Suzukien Asakusa 壽々喜園 浅草本店Asakusa — The tea merchant whose 'world's strongest matcha gelato' went viral: seven intensity levels of matcha gelato, from gentle No. 1 to a near-black,…
• Takagiya Rouho 高木屋老舗Shibamata — Shibamatas best-known kusa-dango shop since the Meiji era, where the Tora-san cast took breaks during filming; eat fresh mugwort dumplings with…
• Takano Fruit Parlour (Shinjuku Main Store) タカノフルーツパーラー 新宿本店Shinjuku — Japan's luxury-fruit culture on a plate: towering seasonal parfaits and melon desserts above the famous Shinjuku Takano fruit shop, where a single…
• Toraya Akasaka とらや 赤坂店Akasaka — Flagship of Toraya, the Kyoto-born wagashi (Japanese sweets) house dating back to the early 16th century and purveyor to the Imperial Court. Its…
• Tricolore Honten トリコロール 本店Ginza — Ginza kissaten founded in 1936, serving cloth-drip coffee with eclairs filled to order in a classic European-style room.
• Tsubakiya Coffee Ginza Honten 椿屋珈琲 銀座本館Ginza — Taisho-romantic kissaten upstairs in Ginza: red velvet, stained glass, siphon coffee in Royal Copenhagen cups, and waitresses in classic black…
• Turret Coffee Turret CoffeeTsukiji — Tiny espresso bar near Tsukiji Station, named after the market's turret trucks, serving lattes in big white cups from 7:00.
• Usagiya Cafe うさぎや CAFEUeno — Cafe of Usagiya, the Ueno wagashi shop founded in 1913 and famous for dorayaki, serving Japanese sweets, pancakes and shaved ice.
• Wako Tea Salon 和光 ティーサロンGinza — Elegant tea salon of the Wako department store at Ginza 4-chome, known for seasonal fruit parfaits and cakes.