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The 28 Best Coffee Shops in Tokyo

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The best coffee shops in Tokyo, according to the experts: World Coffee Map and Eater have both weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. KOFFEE MAMEYA Kakeru comes out on top.

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Passage Coffee and Amameria Espresso hold the next two places. World Coffee Map shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Eater next.

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  1. A U-shaped limestone counter, white lab coats, and bowties might suggest a pharmaceutical trial, but this is a coffee shop where the specialty is flights, one bean expressed as a pour over, espresso, latte, and mocktail in sequence. The spacious warehouse setting is sleek and unhurried, and the staff are warmer than the outfits imply. Evenings bring spiked coffee cocktails if the science-class atmosphere has you feeling experimental.






  2. Address
    2-chōme-16-3 Ginza, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan · Tokyo
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Wednesday 10 AM–5 PM

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    WebsiteInstagram

  3. The roasting happens on-site, so the smell hits you before the door does. This specialty coffee cafe from the Australian-born Single O group sits in Ryogoku, a neighborhood better known for sumo than pour-overs, which gives it a pleasantly unpretentious edge. The space is spare and deliberate, the kind of room that makes you want to sit quietly and pay attention to what's in your cup.


  4. A towering Mahlkönig grinder dominates the counter of this quiet Tomigaya coffee bar, which is the whole thesis statement in one piece of equipment. The room looks too spare to sit in until you realize it isn't, and then you stay. Single-origin espresso is the move, pulled with the kind of unhurried focus that makes the surrounding neighborhood noise feel irrelevant.



  5. Address
    1-chōme-2-2 Momoi, Suginami City, Tokyo 167-0034, Japan · Tokyo
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 8:30 AM

    Wednesday 8:30 AM–7 PM

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram

  6. Address
    1-chōme-13-18 Himonya, Meguro City, Tokyo 152-0003, Japan · Tokyo
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Wednesday 11 AM–7 PM

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  7. Rank 10. Sniite

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  8. Rank 16. Fuglen Tokyo

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  9. Specialty coffee shop perched along the Meguro River, with metro trains sliding past the window often enough that regulars stop noticing them. Behind the bar, the team takes craft seriously enough that baristas reportedly spend two years training before touching the espresso machine. Beautiful ceramics add to the effect. The Instagram crowd has found it, so expect the occasional tripod, but the coffee cuts through the noise.



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