Cafes in Kyoto

11 places across 5 neighbourhoods, 11 of them free to enter, the most featured first.

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  1. Cafe · Shijo-Karasuma

    Inoda Coffee (main shop) イノダコーヒ 本店

    The main shop of a Kyoto coffee company founded in 1940 as a coffee bean business, on Sakaimachi-dori just south of Sanjo.

    Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 8 min walk · Free entry · 45 min

  2. Cafe · Kawaramachi

    Smart Coffee スマート珈琲店

    A coffee shop in the Teramachi arcade near Sanjo, open since 1932 and roasting its own beans.

    Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae (Tozai Line), 4 min walk · Free entry · 40 min

  3. Cafe · Kawaramachi

    Rokuyosha Coffee 六曜社珈琲店

    A coffee house on Kawaramachi-dori just south of Sanjo, founded in 1950, with two separate rooms: a ground floor cafe and a basement that turns into a bar in the evening.

    Sanjo (Keihan Main Line), 5 min walk · Free entry · 40 min

  4. Cafe · Kawaramachi

    Tsukiji coffee house 築地

    A kissaten founded in 1934 in a lane just north of the Shijo-Kawaramachi crossing, with an ornate interior designed by its first owner.

    Kyoto-Kawaramachi (Hankyu Kyoto Line), 1 min walk · Free entry · 30 min

  5. Cafe · Kawaramachi

    Francois Coffee House フランソア喫茶室

    A coffee house opened in 1934 beside the Takase canal south of Shijo, with an Italian Baroque style interior modelled on the hall of an ocean liner.

    Kyoto-Kawaramachi (Hankyu Kyoto Line), 2 min walk · Free entry · 40 min

  6. Cafe · Gion

    Kagizen Yoshifusa (Shijo main store) 鍵善良房 四条本店

    A wagashi maker on Shijo-dori in Gion that has been part of the district since the mid Edo period.

    Gion-Shijo (Keihan Main Line), 5 min walk · Free entry · 40 min

  7. Cafe · Gion

    Gion Tsujiri (Gion main store) 祇園辻利 祇園本店

    The Gion store of an Uji tea merchant founded in 1860, on Shijo-dori east of the Kamo river.

    Gion-Shijo (Keihan Main Line), 3 min walk · Free entry · 45 min

  8. Cafe · Kiyomizu-Gojo

    Kasagiya かさぎ屋

    A sweets shop on the Ninenzaka stone steps, open since 1914, serving ohagi, zenzai and other red bean sweets.

    Kiyomizu-Gojo (Keihan Main Line), 15 min walk · Free entry · 30 min

  9. Cafe · Kinkaku-ji and Kitano

    Ichiwa (aburi-mochi) 一文字屋和輔（一和）

    A teahouse outside the east gate of Imamiya Shrine that dates itself to 1002 and sells only aburi-mochi: small rice cakes dusted with soybean flour, grilled on skewers and served in a sweet white miso sauce.

    Imamiya-jinja-mae bus stop (Kyoto City Bus 46), 2 min walk · Free entry · 30 min

  10. Cafe · Kinkaku-ji and Kitano

    Awamochi Sawaya 粟餅所 澤屋

    A sweets shop across Imadegawa-dori from Kitano Tenmangu, in business since 1682 as a teahouse for the shrine.

    Kitano-Hakubaicho (Keifuku Kitano Line), 7 min walk · Free entry · 20 min

  11. Cafe · Kinkaku-ji and Kitano

    Sarasa Nishijin さらさ西陣

    A cafe and evening bar in the Fujinomori-yu bathhouse building of 1930, which keeps its coffered ceiling and walls of Japanese majolica tiles.

    Senbon-Kuramaguchi bus stop (Kyoto City Bus 206), 11 min walk · Free entry · 1 h

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