Tokyo · Gōtokuji & Kyōdō
Cafés in Gōtokuji & Kyōdō
Beckoning cats at Gōtokuji, tea in a blue 1888 house, the first Horiguchi Coffee, and a branch of Japan's first coffee franchise at Shimotakaido.
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Gōtokuji is a Sōtō Zen temple that began as a hermitage in 1480 and became the Ii family's temple in 1633. One account says a cat beckoned Ii Naotaka inside during a thunderstorm, and more than 10,000 cat figures now stand on the grounds.1 Miyanosaka Station on the Setagaya Line is about five minutes away, and Gōtokuji Station on the Odakyu line about ten.1
Around it, two low-rise rail corridors run through Setagaya: the Odakyu line through Gōtokuji, Kyōdō and Chitose-Funabashi, and the Setagaya Line tram through Yamashita, Miyanosaka and Kamimachi. Shimotakaido marks the north end. The coffee here runs from long-established names to roasters with a method to explain.
Local tip: Buy the Ozaki house ticket online before you walk over from Miyanosaka; the tea room requires it, and the house closed on Thursdays as of 2024.3
At a glance
138Cafés listed
8With opening hours
08:00Earliest opening
21:00Latest closing
- Opens earliest: 喫茶PONY, from 08:00 (Mon 08:00–19:00 · Thu–Fri 08:00–19:00 · Sat–Sun 10:00–19:00).
- Closes latest: 梅が丘ビストロ くるみ, until 21:00 (Daily 10:30–21:00).
- Most common features: specialty (8%), smoke-free indoors (3%), bakery café (3%).
coffee & roaster
- Wheelchair access
- Smoke-free indoors
- Specialty
喫茶PONY
Kissa Pony
ミルクホール石川
- Smoke-free indoors
101 世田谷堂
90Café
aki cafe
AMAZING COFFEE
anamo cafe
- Smoke-free indoors
Barcorte
Brick Lane
Cafe & Dining Terrace Tokyo Chitose Funabashi
Cafe Amane
Cafe and Bar Bingo
Cafe Bar Le Petit Lutin
Cafe Bar LIVRE
Cafe bar Lotus
cafe gharb
Cafe Lounge & Library pratimakrrm cha
Cafe Nanakamado
Cafe Verde
chez RONA
China Tea 茶泉
Chouette Torrefacteur Laboratoire
City Coffee Setagaya
Classics Cafe/Bar
Coffea Funika
COFFEE&CAKES MountainHut
Crepe shop Hachi
Day Drip Coffee
DETAIL Collection
EAGA
- Indoor seating
ENgrave Coffee Roasters
Esphermitex- BR
Fikafabriken
FineTime Coffee Roaster
- Outdoor seating
- Takeaway
- Specialty
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Coffee chains in Gōtokuji & Kyōdō
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Doutor Coffee
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- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 松原二丁目 46-2Mon–Sat 07:00–22:00 · Sun 07:30–21:30
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 桜上水四丁目 17-4Mon–Sat 07:00–02:00 · Sun 08:00–20:00
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 経堂一丁目 21-18Mon–Fri 06:45–23:00 · Sat–Sun 07:30–23:00
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 船橋一丁目 1-5Daily 07:00–22:00
- ドトールコーヒーショップ, 赤堤4丁目48-3
Chain
Starbucks
Show 4 locations
- スターバックス, 1 9 45 FunabashiDaily 07:00–22:00
- スターバックス, 2 1 3 Kyodo
- スターバックス, 松原二丁目 46-5Daily 07:30–22:00
- スターバックス, 赤堤4-47-10
Chain
Tully's Coffee
- タリーズコーヒー, 経堂二丁目 1-33Daily 07:30–22:00
Chain
Saint Marc Café
- サンマルクカフェ, 宮坂二丁目 19-5Daily 07:00–23:00
- サンマルクカフェ, 豪徳寺一丁目 43-4Daily 07:00–22:00
Chain
Kohikan
Chain
Coffee Colorado
Chain
Musashino Mori Coffee
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Honolulu Coffee
Chain
Saza Coffee
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WIRED CAFE
Chain
Fuglen
Tea in a blue house from 1888
旧尾崎テオドラ邸 喫茶室 (the Former Ozaki Theodora Residence tea room) occupies a blue clapboard house built in 1888 and moved to its present site in 1933.3 It is said to have been a gift from the father of Theodora Eiko Ozaki, wife of the politician Ozaki Yukio, when she came to Japan from England.3
The house faced demolition in 2020, until the manga artists Yamashita Kazumi and Sasao Nami started a project to save it.2 It now holds a gallery, a shop and the tea room, where a resident pastry chef makes the sweets.3 Seats need an advance ticket: ¥1,000 for gallery and seat, ¥5,950 with afternoon tea, as of 2024.2
Where Horiguchi Coffee started
堀口珈琲 (Horiguchi Coffee) was founded in Setagaya in May 1990 by Horiguchi Toshihide, who pushed fresh green coffee, deep roasts that showed their origin and freezing beans for storage.4 The shop moved to its present address in Funabashi in 1996, and the company's research institute followed in 2002, along with regular trips to producers.4
It is one minute from Chitose-Funabashi Station, with beans roasted in Yokohama and nine numbered blends in which a higher number means a darker roast.5 As of 2019 this was the only one of its three Tokyo shops with espresso, and the mismatched tables and chairs were the founder's own picks, many made to order.5
Shimotakaido: a 1966 chain and Taiwanese beans
コーヒーハウスぽえむ (Coffee House Poem) dates to 1966 in Asagaya and began franchising in 1971, the first coffee chain in Japan to do so.6 It once had 80 shops and counted 20 in September 2025, each with its own menu.6 The Shimotakaido branch on Akatsutsumi serves the Einspänner, hot dark-roast coffee in a wine glass under whipped cream.7 Beans are roasted in Kōchi in small direct-flame machines.6
Nearby on Akatsutsumi 4-chōme, Meili specializes in Taiwanese coffee, which it describes as mild in acidity and bitterness, and often pairs it with house-made pineapple cake.7 It opened in 2020.7
Low-temperature roasts and soup curry
Chouette Torrefacteur Laboratoire on Miyasaka bases everything on temperature: storage, roast, brewing and the moment you drink.8 It roasts low on its own profiles, logs the data, and sells cheesecake and pudding built to pair with the cup. The shop opens at 07:30 and closes around 17:30, earlier if it sells out on weekends.8
101 世田谷堂 (a soup curry café) opened by Kamimachi in May 2024 as the sister shop of 202 Curry-dō in Shimokitazawa. The owner trained for 13 years in Sapporo, and the gluten-free soup curry comes in spice levels from 1 to 10, and the shop also serves its own roasted coffee.2
Sources
- 豪徳寺, Wikipedia (Japanese), accessed November 2026
- 東京、世田谷線ベストカフェ10選, Time Out Tokyo, accessed November 2026
- 旧尾崎テオドラ邸, Time Out Tokyo, accessed November 2026
- 堀口珈琲のこと, Horiguchi Coffee, accessed November 2026
- 珈琲と相性ぴったりの栗パフェで秋の訪れを感じる「堀口珈琲 世田谷店」, Cotrip, accessed November 2026
- 「コーヒーハウスぽえむ」用賀店は、人間らしい空間を大事にするお店！, Santatsu by Sanpo no Tatsujin, accessed November 2026
- 憩いのコーヒー店（2023年10月14日）, TV Tokyo, accessed November 2026
- chouette torréfacteur laboratoire, Chouette Torrefacteur Laboratoire, accessed November 2026
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FAQ
Gōtokuji & Kyōdō cafés: questions
How do you visit the Former Ozaki Theodora Residence tea room at Gōtokuji in Tokyo?
Buy an advance ticket first: ¥1,000 for gallery and seat, or ¥5,950 with afternoon tea, as of 2024. The blue house, built in 1888 and moved here in 1933, is a six-minute walk from Miyanosaka Station and nine from Gōtokuji Station. It closed on Thursdays as of 2024.
Where did Horiguchi Coffee start in Setagaya, Tokyo?
Horiguchi Toshihide founded it in Setagaya in May 1990, and the shop moved to its present address in Funabashi in 1996. It is one minute from Chitose-Funabashi Station on the Odakyu line. Beans are roasted in Yokohama, and the nine numbered blends get darker as the number rises.
What is Coffee House Poem in Shimotakaido, Tokyo?
A branch of a coffee chain founded in Asagaya in 1966, which in 1971 became the first coffee chain in Japan to franchise. It counted 20 shops in September 2025. Beans are roasted in Kōchi in small direct-flame machines, and the Shimotakaido branch serves the Einspänner, hot dark-roast coffee under whipped cream.
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