Le Pain Quotidien Shibakoen is a bakery in Tokyo.
Le Pain Quotidien Shibakoen in Tokyo is the Belgian organic-bread chain's park-side cafe under Tokyo Tower. Communal table, organic sourdough, vegetarian.
Tip: Walking distance from Tokyo Tower. Lunch tartines and breakfast plates are the value play.
Address: Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan
Dean and Deluca Roppongi in Tokyo Roppongi Hills is the New York deli's flagship across the Hillside corner. Bakery shelf, deli counter and cafe seats.
Tip: Open 10:00-21:00 daily. The seeded sourdough and the salt-baked cookies are the takeaway picks.
Worth the queue: Sourdough and seeded loaves
Pierre Herme Paris Aoyama in Tokyo is the French patissier's Asia flagship on Aoyama-dori. Macarons, the Ispahan, and a viennoiserie counter for croissants.
Tip: Three-floor flagship; the cafe second floor is the calmer seated option. The Ispahan rose-lychee macaron is the canonical.
Worth the queue: Ispahan macaron and croissant
Boul'Mich Yurakucho in Tokyo's Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan basement is the 1973 French patisserie's home shop. Hand-rolled croissants and the mille-feuille daily.
Tip: Below the Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan; closest to JR Yurakucho. Open 10:00-20:00 daily.
Worth the queue: Mille-feuille and croissant
Bakery Tokyo Shibuya in Tokyo's Okushibu is the sister bakery to Shibuya Cheese Stand. Single-bake country loaves and pain de mie, baked each morning.
Tip: Closed Mondays. Best paired with the cheese stand's mozzarella and burrata next door.
Worth the queue: Country bread with house mozzarella
Centre The Bakery in Tokyo's Ginza is the shokupan-only counter where queues form for the milk bread tasting flight by 11:00 most days. Cafe seating upstairs.
Tip: The cafe side seats a toast-tasting flight; the takeaway counter sells loaves whole. Closed New Year.
Worth the queue: Three-style shokupan tasting (Pullman, mountain, raisin)
Pelican Bakery in Tokyo's Asakusa has baked only two products since 1942: shokupan and dinner rolls. Loaves sell out by mid-afternoon and reservations help.
Tip: Phone-reserve a loaf two days ahead or arrive by 10:00. The Pelican Cafe on Kotobuki serves the same loaves toasted with butter.
Worth the queue: Shokupan square loaf
