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Cafés in Ginza & Yūrakuchō
Ginza's avenues and lanes, from Café de l'Ambre's aged beans to the early counters of the Tsukiji outer market.
Photo: Szymon Shields, Pexels License
Ginza is Tokyo's old shopping district along Chūō-dōri, with Yūrakuchō on its western edge by the JR tracks. Its landmark is the Wako building on the 4-chōme crossing, completed in 1932 as the K. Hattori Building to a design by Jin Watanabe, and one of the few buildings in the area left standing after the Second World War.7 From 1945 to 1952 it served as the Tokyo PX store of the occupying forces.7
Its coffee history starts in the Meiji era and runs to today's roasters. Café Paulista began in 1910 as a shop selling Brazilian coffee, and Café de l'Ambre opened in 1948 in a West Ginza still half burned out from the war.41 Southeast of the avenues, the Tsukiji outer market keeps much earlier hours than the department stores.
Local tip: Ask Café de l'Ambre for one of its old coffees, beans aged for more than a decade, and come on a weekday: it closes at 19:00 on Sundays.2
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235Cafés listed
14With opening hours
06:30Earliest opening
23:00Latest closing
Cafe de l'ambre
カフェ・ド・ランブル
the SNACK
vivo daily stand 築地市場店
ラ・カンティーヌ セントル
La Cantine Centre
雪月花 カフェ京橋店
Café SETSUGEKKA
築地 胡蝶
Tsukiji Kochō
310 Coffee
72カフェ・デイビッドマイヤーズ
Analog Cafe Yaesu
And Coffee Roasters Hibiya
and people
AOU Ginza no Mori
Aux Bacchanales
Bicerin Ginza Six
Bless Coffee
- Partial wheelchair access
Bob Ginza Store
Bon Bonheur
Bongen
Bongen Coffee
Bunmeido Cafe Ginza
Cafe & Deli Ginza Soleil+
Café à la Tienne
Cafe de naura
Café de Repos
Cafe Deco
Cafe Dining botarico
Cafe Erica
Cafe Ohana
Café Planète Chocolat 銀座店
CAFE Space R
CAFE Stylo
Cafe きょうぶんかん
Café Kyōbunkan
Cafe ゆとりの空間
Cha Ginza
- Wheelchair access
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Coffee chains in Ginza & Yūrakuchō
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Doutor Coffee
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- ドトールコーヒーショップ
- ドトールコーヒーショップ
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 丸の内三丁目 6-11
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 京橋三丁目 6-12
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 新富二丁目 14-6Mon–Fri 07:00–21:00 · Sat 08:00–17:00
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 新橋一丁目 8-4
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 有楽町一丁目 3-7
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 有楽町一丁目 7-1
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 築地三丁目 7-1
- ル・カフェ・ドトール 銀座中央通り店, 銀座7-8-7
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 銀座一丁目 9-12
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 銀座二丁目 5-2
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 銀座二丁目 7-11
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 銀座六丁目 13-6
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 銀座六丁目 3-12
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 銀座四丁目 11-6
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Starbucks
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- 銀座 スタバ
- スターバックス, 1 1 4 Yurakucho
- スターバックス, 6 Chome-10-1 GinzaDaily 08:00–22:30
- 京橋2-4-12
- スターバックス, 新橋二丁目 19-3
- スターバックス, 明石町 9-1
- スタバ有楽町ビル1階店, 有楽町1-10-1
- スターバックス, 有楽町一丁目 2-2Daily 07:00–22:00
- スターバックス, 有楽町二丁目 7-1
- スターバックス, 有楽町二丁目 9Daily 07:00–22:00
- スターバックス, 東新橋一丁目 1-8Daily 07:00–22:30
- スターバックス, 東新橋一丁目 5-2
- スターバックス, 東新橋一丁目 8-2
- スターバックス, 東新橋一丁目 9-1
- スターバックス, 築地二丁目 12-8Mon–Fri 06:30–22:00 · Sat 07:00–20:00 · Sun 08:00–20:00
- 銀座4-1-2
- スターバックス, 銀座6丁目10-1
- スターバックス, 銀座七丁目 2-22
- スターバックス, 銀座三丁目 7-14
- スターバックス, 銀座三丁目 7-3Daily 07:00–22:30
- スターバックス, 銀座五丁目 15-8
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Tully's Coffee
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- タリーズコーヒー 築地一丁目店, １一９一２ 平成通りMon–Fri 07:30–21:00
- タリーズコーヒー 東銀座店, １丁目１３一１４ 晴海通りMon–Fri 07:00–20:00 · Sat–Sun 08:30–18:00
- タリーズコーヒー 歌舞伎座店, ４丁目１２一１５ 晴海通りMon–Fri 07:30–20:00 · Sat 08:00–20:00 · Sun 08:00–19:00
- Tully’s coffee B1F, Ginza, 5 Chome−2−1 GinzaNovoB1階A区画
- タリーズコーヒー, 京橋3-1-1
- 有楽町1-2-2
- Tully's Coffee &TEA, 有楽町2-5-1
- タリーズコーヒー, 東新橋一丁目 5-2
- タリーズコーヒー, 東新橋一丁目 5-44Daily 07:30–22:00
- タリーズコーヒー, 築地五丁目 3-2
- タリーズコーヒー, 銀座六丁目 14-5
- タリーズコーヒー, 銀座四丁目 6-16Daily 10:30–20:00
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Caffè Veloce
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- Veloce Tsukiji, 3 Chome-9-10 Tsukiji, Chūō-ku, Tōkyō-to 104-0045
- カフェ・ベローチェ, 築地三丁目 9-10
- カフェ・ベローチェ, 銀座一丁目 19-14Daily 07:00–22:00
- カフェ・ベローチェ, 銀座二丁目 8-4Daily 07:00–22:00
- カフェ・ベローチェ, 銀座五丁目 10-6Daily 07:00–23:00
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PRONTO
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Saint Marc Café
- サンマルクカフェ
- サンマルクカフェ, 東新橋一丁目 9-1
- サンマルクカフェ, 銀座六丁目 12-1Daily 07:00–23:00
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Excelsior Caffé
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Café Renoir
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Café de Crié
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Kohikan
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Komeda's Coffee
- 有楽町1-11-1
- KOMEDA is □, 築地1丁目13-1Daily 07:00–22:00
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Hoshino Coffee
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Tsubakiya Coffee
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Yanaka Coffee
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Blue Bottle Coffee
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Dean & DeLuca
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珈琲茶館 集
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Musashino Mori Coffee
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Honolulu Coffee
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Miyakoshiya Coffee
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Capital Coffee
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Marufuku Coffee
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Tailored Café
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Coffee Mafia
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Ralph's Coffee
Café de l'Ambre and its aged beans
Ichirō Sekiguchi founded Café de l'Ambre and roasted his own beans from the first day, holding that roasting decides about 80 percent of a coffee's taste.1 He took the name from ambre, French for the amber color he wanted in the cup, and designed his own roasters, grinders, pots and cups.2 An orange sign in the lane reads コーヒーだけのお店 ("a shop only for coffee").2
The draw is old coffee: green beans aged for more than ten years before roasting.2 In 2024 Time Out counted one blend and about 30 single-origin coffees, with English menus.3 The room has 10 counter seats and 14 at tables; the novelists Nagai Kafū and Kawabata Yasunari were regulars, and the house's signature drink, ブラン・エ・ノワール (Blanc et Noir), goes by the nickname 琥珀の女王 (the queen of amber).1 It opens 12:00–22:00 Monday to Saturday and 12:00–19:00 on Sundays.
Café Paulista in 8-chōme
Café Paulista was founded in Ginza 6-chōme with the backing of Ōkuma Shigenobu, the statesman, and after several moves it settled in 1970 at 8-9-16 Ginza, on the ground floor of the Nagasaki Center Building.4 The shop keeps the seat where John Lennon and Yoko Ono sat on their visit.4 In 2021 a quiche-and-cake set started at ¥1,630.4
Chūō-dōri on weekends, and Yūrakuchō
On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, Chūō-dōri closes to traffic for about 1,100 m between the Ginza-dōri-guchi and Ginza 8-chōme crossings: 12:00–18:00 from April to September and 12:00–17:00 from October to March.5 The closure can be called off without notice.5
Tea salons and patisserie cafés line the avenue and its side streets. The Wako Annex tea salon is at 4-8 Ginza, La Cantine Centre at 1-2-1 Ginza opens daily 10:00–19:00, and Hidemi Sugino Café serves until 22:00. Qu'il fait bon is open daily until 23:00, and the SNACK at 7-5-4 Ginza runs 09:00–23:00 on weekdays and has Wi-Fi.
Early coffee at the Tsukiji outer market
The wholesale inner market at Tsukiji closed on 6 October 2018 and moved to Toyosu, but the outer market stayed, selling food and other goods, and most of its shops close by early afternoon.6 Its cafés keep market hours. Tsukiji Kochō at 9-7 Tsukiji opens daily 06:30–15:00, and vivo daily stand at 9-1 Tsukiji runs 09:00–14:00 Monday to Saturday.
Kissa Mako is upstairs in the Nakatomi building in Tsukiji. On the Kyōbashi side, Café Setsugekka opens daily at 07:00, and Tatty's Coffee in Tsukiji has outdoor seats and Wi-Fi.
Sources
- カフェ・ド・ランブル, Waraku Web (August 22, 2019), accessed October 2026
- ローカルレジェンド#12 関口一郎, Time Out Tokyo (October 1, 2016), accessed October 2026
- 13 best retro Japanese coffee shops in Tokyo, Time Out Tokyo (June 13, 2024), accessed October 2026
- カフェーパウリスタ, Santatsu (updated March 26, 2021), accessed October 2026
- 歩行者用道路（歩行者天国）, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, accessed October 2026
- Tsukiji fish market, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
- Wako (retailer), Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
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FAQ
Ginza & Yūrakuchō cafés: questions
When is Chūō-dōri in Ginza, Tokyo, closed to cars?
On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, Chūō-dōri becomes a pedestrian street for about 1,100 m between the Ginza-dōri-guchi and Ginza 8-chōme crossings. Hours are 12:00–18:00 from April to September and 12:00–17:00 from October to March. The police can call it off without notice.
What is special about Café de l'Ambre in Ginza, Tokyo?
Café de l'Ambre opened in 1948 and serves only coffee, roasted in-house. Its founder, Ichirō Sekiguchi, designed his own roasters and cups, and the menu includes old coffee from green beans aged for more than ten years. Time Out counted one blend and about 30 single origins in 2024, with English menus. It opens at 12:00 every day.
Where can you get early coffee near Tsukiji and Ginza in Tokyo?
The Tsukiji outer market stayed open after the inner market moved to Toyosu in October 2018, and most of its shops close by early afternoon. Tsukiji Kochō at 9-7 Tsukiji opens daily at 06:30, and Café Setsugekka in Kyōbashi at 07:00. At 9-1 Tsukiji, vivo daily stand opens at 09:00, Monday to Saturday.
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