% Arabica Higashiyama
- ★ 4.3
- ¥
- Higashiyama
Order Kyoto Latte
The minimalist white-tile espresso bar that put Kyoto on the global coffee-tourism map. Slayer-pulled lattes and the Hokkaido Slayer milk programme.
Coffee shops, bakeries with seats and the places Kyoto lingers in over a cortado.
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About Us Coffee
- ★ 4.3
- ¥
- Pontocho
Order Hojicha basque cheesecake with the day's filter pairing.
About Us in Nakagyo in Kyoto is a 90-year machiya specialty coffee bar opened 2025 between Sanjo Shopping Street and Nijo Castle, hojicha basque, lemon pound.
Kurasu Kyoto
- ★ 4.4
- ¥
- Kyoto Station Area
Order Filter coffee
A cafe-and-coffee-equipment showroom five minutes from Kyoto Station. Single O Japan beans and rotating pour-over methods at a quiet machiya counter.
Café tastings, classes and tours in Kyoto
Smart Coffee
- ★ 4.4
- ¥
- Karasuma and Kawaramachi
Order House-roasted blend with hotcakes
A 1932 kissaten in Kyoto's Teramachi arcade. House-roasted coffee, hotcakes that haven't changed since the Showa era and the city's reference morning set.
Inoda Coffee Honten
- ★ 4.5
- ¥
- Karasuma and Kawaramachi
Order Arabian Pearl
A 1940-founded kissaten in a Karasuma machiya, the city's most photographed coffee terrace. Egg-and-sausage breakfasts, Arabian Pearl as the house blend.
Ippodo Kaboku Tea Room
- ★ 4.6
- ¥
- Karasuma and Kawaramachi
Order Ceremonial-grade matcha set
Ippodo's tasting room on Teramachi, Kyoto, opened by the tea merchant founded in 1717. Located in Karasuma Kawaramachi. Order the ceremonial-grade matcha set.
Gion Tsujiri
- ★ 4.3
- ¥
- Gion
Order Matcha parfait
The Gion outpost of the 1860 Uji tea-merchant Tsujiri, opening for matcha parfaits and matcha soba until 20:00, the latest such room in Higashiyama Kyoto.
Marukyu Koyamaen Nishinotoin
- ★ 4.4
- ¥
- Karasuma and Kawaramachi
Order Stone-ground matcha set
Marukyu Koyamaen's Kyoto tasting room on Nishinotoin, run by the Uji tea house founded 1704. Sit in a sashed garden tatami room and order matcha by farm.
Kagizen Yoshifusa
- ★ 4.6
- ¥
- Gion
Order Kuzukiri with kuromitsu
An 18th-century wagashi maker on Shijo-dori with a tatami tea room behind the storefront. Tsukimi rabbit jellies and the most quoted kuzukiri in Kyoto.
Fukujuen Kyoto Honten
- ★ 4.2
- ¥
- Karasuma and Kawaramachi
Order Single-estate matcha
A six-floor Uji-tea house on Shijo-dori, Kyoto. Tea blending in the basement classroom, a soba-and-matcha lunch on the second, hojicha creme brulee on top.
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Yugen Kyoto
- ★ 4.4
- ¥
- Karasuma and Kawaramachi
Order Kyoto-style iced matcha latte
A modern matcha cafe and tasting room on Sanjo-dori, Kyoto. Matcha and hojicha by farm, plus the city's best Kyoto-style cold milk-matcha programme.
Alt. Coffee Roasters
- ★ 4.3
- ¥
- Pontocho
Order Daily batch brew of the rotating single origin on the chalk board.
Alt. in Nakagyo in Kyoto is a one-woman specialty coffee shop, ex-dietician owner roasting her own beans, daily batch brew and a single counter inside.
Akatsuki Coffee
Order Weekenders blend pour-over
A husband-and-wife cafe near Ichijoji in north Kyoto, with a no-laptops policy. Weekenders beans on the pour-over and homemade cakes refreshed daily.
Dot.S
- ★ 4.2
- ¥
- Northern Higashiyama
Order Single O Japan pour-over
An espresso bar and Smart Car showroom in Okazaki, Kyoto, beside the National Museum of Modern Art. Single O Japan and And Coffee Roasters on rotation.
Vermillion Espresso Bar
- ★ 4.3
- ¥
- Fushimi
Order Australian-style flat white
Australian-style espresso steps from Fushimi Inari's main torii gate in Kyoto. Flat whites and a sister cafe by the pond at the foot of Mount Inariyama.
Nakamura Tokichi Kyoto Station
- ★ 4.4
- ¥
- Kyoto Station Area
Order Maruto matcha parfait
The Kyoto Station outpost of the 1854 Uji tea-house Nakamura Tokichi. The Maruto parfait, matcha or hojicha, is the depachika's standing all-day queue.
Walden Woods Kyoto
- ★ 4.2
- ¥
- Karasuma and Kawaramachi
Order Espresso tonic
A white-on-white cafe in Shimogyo, Kyoto, named for Thoreau. Stepped wood platforms, espresso tonics, lattes and a quiet morning-only oat-milk programme.
Rokuyosha Chika-ten
- ★ 4.3
- ¥
- Karasuma and Kawaramachi
Order Cinnamon-toast set
A red-walled basement kissaten on Sanjo Kawaramachi in Kyoto since 1950. Cinnamon-toast morning sets, smoked-glass lamps and zero modern interruption.
Ogawa Coffee Sakaimachi Nishikikoji
- ★ 4.1
- ¥
- Karasuma and Kawaramachi
Order House blend filter
A 1952 Kyoto roaster's flagship. Ogawa runs filter-and-espresso service and a roastery showcase one block from Nishiki Market; the local third-wave default.
Blue Bottle Coffee Kyoto
- ★ 4.3
- ¥
- Northern Higashiyama
Order New Orleans iced coffee
Blue Bottle's Kyoto cafe, set in a converted machiya beside Nanzen-ji. Single-origin pour-over, Hario filter on the bar and a wagashi-pairing programme.
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