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Cafés in Shikemichi & Endōji

A storehouse lane by the Horikawa, the Endōji arcade, and ogura toast from a Mitsuba offshoot.

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Shikemichi (四間道) runs along the second lane west of the Horikawa river. After a fire in 1700 destroyed more than 1,600 houses, Tokugawa Yoshimichi, fourth lord of Owari, had it widened to four ken, about 7 m, to protect the merchants' riverside warehouses.1 The merchants had come with the move from Kiyosu that began in 1610, and their storehouses lined the river for its boat traffic.2

The east side keeps its dozō (土蔵, whitewashed storehouses) on stone bases, and some townhouses still have yane-gami, small shrines on the second floor.1 The city made the street a townscape preservation district in June 1986, and its old houses now hold cafés, restaurants and gift shops.2 Endōji (円頓寺), the covered shopping street at the district's north end, is named after a temple; the temples moved to their present site after a fire in 1724, and samurai houses stood here before that.3

Local tip: At New Poppy, the griddle ogura toast comes with its coffee syrup on the side: pour it over the ice cream yourself.5

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30Cafés listed
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  • Opens earliest: まつば, from 08:00 (Mon–Tue 08:00–18:00 · Thu–Sun 08:00–18:00).
  • Closes latest: 喫茶ニューポピー, until 20:00 (Daily 08:00–20:00).
  • Most common features: outdoor seating (3%), wi-fi (3%), partial wheelchair access (3%).

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Coffee chains in Shikemichi & Endōji

Getting to Shikemichi

Kokusai Center Station on the Sakura-dōri Line is the closest: from Exit 2 it is about a five-minute walk north.1 The western end of Endōji is a short walk from Nagoya Station.3 In March 2026 Nishi Ward added the Shikemichi district to its list of certified local brands, beside Noritake no Mori and the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology.2

Endōji's arcade

The arcade's roof was renewed in full by 21 March 2015. The street has held an autumn Paris festival since 2012, signed a sister-street agreement with the Passage des Panoramas in Paris on 2 April 2015, and has held a Tanabata festival since the late 1950s or early 1960s.3

Nagonoya, at Nagono 1-6-13, is a café, diner and guesthouse in one. It took over Nishi Asahi, a kissaten with more than 80 years behind it, and took its present name on 1 April 2018.45 It brought back Nishi Asahi's egg sandwich, two layers of fluffy omelet with chopped cucumber.5

Ogura toast's descendants

Kissa Matsuba, at Nagono 1-35-14, is a licensed offshoot (noren-wake) of Mitsuba's main shop, now closed, where ogura toast began.5 It opens 08:00–18:00 and closes on Wednesdays.

Kissa New Poppy, opened on Shikemichi in a Shōwa retro-modern style, makes a griddle ogura toast: sesame bread with red-bean paste and vanilla ice cream, over which you pour a strong syrup made from coffee it roasts itself.5 It opens 08:00–20:00 every day.

Komeda's first room and the newer roasters

The Komeda's Coffee chain started here: its first shop opened in February 1968 in the Kikui Building in Nagono 2-chōme and closed on 31 March 2014, when the building was torn down.6

Newer coffee is spread through Nagono: Port Coffee on the second floor of Nagono 2-11-15, Rows Coffee at 2-21-5, No Detail Is Small at 1-24-2, and Mammy's Coffee at 1-20-35, an Endōji shop. Cafe de Lyon Blue is at Nagono 1-38-13 and Ise Cha mirume, an Ise tea house, at 1-36-57. Nagono Sabō Hanasenka (那古野茶房 花千花) is at 1-18-6.

Sources

  1. 四間道, Wikipedia (Japanese), accessed October 2026
  2. 名古屋西公認ブランド（四間道町並み保存地区）, Nishi Ward, City of Nagoya, accessed October 2026
  3. 円頓寺商店街, Wikipedia (Japanese), accessed October 2026
  4. なごのや, なごのや (official site), accessed October 2026
  5. 懐かしさを探して…今すぐ行きたい名古屋のレトロ喫茶店と絶品モーニング！, 名古屋コンシェルジュ, Nagoya official tourism site (updated January 6, 2026), accessed October 2026
  6. コメダ, Wikipedia (Japanese), accessed October 2026
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FAQ

Shikemichi & Endōji cafés: questions

What is Shikemichi in Nagoya?

Shikemichi is a merchant street west of the Horikawa river, widened to four ken, about 7 m, after a fire in 1700 to protect the riverside warehouses. Whitewashed storehouses still line its east side, some houses keep rooftop shrines, and it has been a townscape preservation district since June 1986.

Where can you eat ogura toast in Shikemichi and Endōji, Nagoya?

Kissa Matsuba at Nagono 1-35-14 is a licensed offshoot of Mitsuba, where ogura toast began, and opens 08:00–18:00 except Wednesdays. Kissa New Poppy on Shikemichi serves a griddle ogura toast on sesame bread with vanilla ice cream and coffee syrup, 08:00–20:00 daily.

Where was the first Komeda's Coffee in Nagoya?

The first Komeda's Coffee opened in February 1968 in the Kikui Building in Nagono 2-chōme, Nishi Ward, run by its founder Katō Tarō. The shop closed on 31 March 2014, when the old building was demolished.

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