About

A field guide for people with a few days and one good afternoon.

Most maps lump every matcha place together: a tea house with tatami and a hundred-year-old whisk sits next to a chain café pouring premix. They are not the same visit. Matcha Map Tokyo exists to answer one question quickly — which matcha place should I go to, near where I will already be, today?

How it works

Learn the five categories

Three ways to drink matcha and two ways to eat it — different experiences, not grades of one drink.

Read the guide

Find your style

Five questions produce a category and a flavour preference we match against every shop.

Take the quiz

Go to the one nearby

The map filters by style, rating, price and station, and can sort by distance from you.

Open the map

How shops are rated

One headline score: Every shop gets a 1–5 overall rating, shrunk toward the site average so a single glowing review cannot outrank forty steady ones.
Taste is not quality: Sweetness, bitterness and strength are shown as a flavour profile, never as a score. A bitter bowl is not a worse bowl — it is a different one.
Practicalities count: English menu, cards accepted, queue length, seating and price band come from the people who actually walked in.
No accounts, no placement: Reviews are anonymous, nothing is tracked across sites, and no shop can pay to move up the list.

Know a place we are missing?

Suggestions are read by a human and checked before anything goes live. No account needed.

Suggest a shop