fiveran ★ 4.4
Boulangerie et cafe fiveran near Karasuma Oike works French recipes with carefully sourced ingredients, a Tabelog Bread 100 pick for its buttery croissants.
Worth the queue: Beurre croissant; custard cream pan
Shinshindo Kitayama is a bakery in Kita Daitokuji, Kyoto.
Editorially verified June 26, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Address: Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8056, Japan
Boulangerie et cafe fiveran near Karasuma Oike works French recipes with carefully sourced ingredients, a Tabelog Bread 100 pick for its buttery croissants.
Worth the queue: Beurre croissant; custard cream pan
A black-fronted French bakery on Oike, Kyoto, that anchors the city's croissant scene. Levain breads, viennoiserie and a respectable pain au chocolat.
Worth the queue: Beurre croissant
A neighbourhood bakery near Kyoto City Hall, on Oike. Mentaiko bagels, black-tea panini and the morning queue that everyone in Nakagyo recognises.
Worth the queue: Mentaiko bagel
A stone-milled grain bakery on Sanjo, Kyoto, baking denser, longer-fermented loaves. Whole-grain croissants and the city's slow-bread reference shelf.
Worth the queue: Whole-grain croissant
The 1948-founded local chain of Kyoto, with the Station outlet running 21 sister branches. Carnet, the city's ham-and-onion spiral, defines the counter.
Worth the queue: Carnet ham and onion roll
Sizuya's anpan-as-design-object spinoff inside Kyoto Station's Porta basement. A dozen flavours, gift-wrapped one at a time, and the queue spinning daily.
Worth the queue: Yuzu citrus anpan