The best matcha cafés in Tokyo

A calm tea salon with tatami benches, minus the stuffiness. Everything is 100% organic matcha from their own farm.

Order

The matcha latte, or the matcha coffee latte if you can't choose: three layers, matcha, milk and coffee.

Price

Drinks around ¥750–¥800.

Getting there

Omotesando shop: near Harajuku Station (JR) and Meiji-Jingumae (Metro). Other branches: Miyashita Park in Shibuya, NEWoMan in Shinjuku, Tokyo Skytree Town.

A tea house from Uji, Kyoto, founded in 1854. The Tokyo branch is a proper sit-down café behind a tea shop, inside the Ginza Six mall.

Order

A matcha parfait, or the matcha soft serve. Hungry? They do matcha soba too.

Good to know

It's popular, so expect a wait at busy times.

Getting there

Ginza Six, 6-10-16 Ginza. A few minutes from Ginza Station.

An Asakusa tea shop since 1848, famous for matcha gelato in seven strengths. Number seven calls itself the richest matcha gelato in the world. It isn't lying.

Order

A cup with No. 7 and something gentler next to it, for contrast.

Good to know

No seats. At busy times they hand out numbered tickets. Eat it walking around Sensō-ji.

Getting there

3-4-3 Asakusa, a short walk from Asakusa Station.

A 160-year-old sweets house that closed in 2022 and came back in July 2025 with the same recipes. Two floors, with a small tatami room at the back upstairs.

Order

The matcha bavarois, with cream and red bean. It's the reason people queued for decades.

Good to know

Eat-in works on numbered tickets when it's busy.

Getting there

Kagurazaka 2-12, at the bottom of the Kagurazaka slope. Iidabashi Station (JR, Metro).

A small, quiet tea stand in concrete and wood, a little out of the centre. Every tea comes from a single farm, which is rare in Japan.

Order

The matcha latte, and the matcha pudding if it isn't gone. It often sells out by noon.

Good to know

Closed Mondays. Open into the evening, with tea drinks that have alcohol in them.

Getting there

3-25-9 Shōan, Suginami. About 5 minutes from JR Nishi-Ogikubo Station.

A Japanese-style café halfway up the Kagurazaka slope, a few minutes from Kinozen. Do both and call it a day out.

Order

Hekira (碧羅): Uji matcha and chestnut cream piped as thin as silk thread, at the main shop. Or one of their parfaits.

Good to know

No reservations, so just turn up.

Getting there

Kagurazaka 3-1. Kagurazaka Station (Metro) or Iidabashi Station (JR, Metro).