Directory
Matcha shops in Tokyo
14 shops serving modern matcha sweets.
Atelier Matcha Nihonbashi
NihonbashiNihombashi Station6 min
Bright modern cafe focused on customisation: pick your matcha origin, milk, and sweetness level. Soft-serve, lattes, tiramisu, and shaved-ice all available on a clear, photo-led menu. Instagram crowd at peak hours; off-peak is calm and the staff explain each cultivar before pouring. Great for groups whose appetite for traditional ceremony varies — one guest can order a serious pure pour while another goes for an oat-milk latte without anybody compromising. Bench seating outside on warm days.
Chanoniwa : tea garden
RoppongiRoppongi Station2 min
Chanoniwa is the directly operated shop and cafe of Sasaki Seicha, a Kakegawa tea house trading as KANEJO whose leaf has taken the Minister of Agriculture's prize; the Roppongi Hills North Tower branch opened on 25 April 2026 as the brand's first in the Kanto region. Kakegawa is deep-steamed tea country, and that method carries into a matcha with pronounced umami, used both for tea-ceremony service and throughout the kitchen. The cafe's headline is the Kakegawa matcha parfait, made here in a Roppongi Hills-only version, alongside matcha zenzai and kuzu dorayaki with matcha cream. Tea-rice sets cover lunch, and an English menu is available.
CHAYA 1899 TOKYO
ShimbashiOnarimon Station6 min
On the ground floor of Hotel 1899 Tokyo, a property built entirely around tea, CHAYA works as a neighbourhood teahouse for the Shimbashi-Onarimon backstreets. Staff here are called tea baristas, and the signature Rich Matcha Latte lets you set the dose, roughly three to six grams of stone-milled tencha, with the whisking done in front of you; four grams is the house recommendation. Beyond matcha there is hojicha, sencha, Japanese black tea, tea sodas and even matcha beer, plus matcha bread, tea gelato and a full food menu. Its 36 seats are first-come only, and the cafe runs a monthly Japanese tea seminar.
CHAYA Matsuo
YanakaSendagi Station6 min
A modern chaya on Yanaka Ginza shopping street, sister shop to Saboh Matsuo by Yushima Tenmangu. Mochi is pounded in-house every morning with mortar and pestle from Wataboshi rice grown under contract in Uonuma, then served as skewers with mitarashi, isobe, kuromitsu-kinako or Dainagon red bean, from 300 yen with a one-drink minimum. The matcha is Yamamasa Koyamaen from Uji, whisked to order by the okami rather than poured from a jug, and there is house-made kanten, Hateruma kuromitsu and warabimochi from domestic bracken starch. Roughly ten seats, so it fills quickly at weekends; takeaway is available. No fixed closing day.
HIIRAGI Ginza
GinzaGinza Station4 min
Hiiragi occupies a back street behind GINZA SIX as a curated Japanese sweets shop with a six-seat hinoki counter tucked inside. The draw is a kakigori technique that blends premium Uji matcha through the ice itself rather than pouring syrup over the top, so the flavour holds to the last spoonful; it arrives under condensed milk and black-sugar cream. Each item in the matcha-zukushi set, from the shaved ice and latte to the financier and a plum-wine-spiked terrine, uses a different tea leaf, so the set doubles as a tasting. With only six seats and a 10% eat-in service charge, it rewards an off-peak visit.
IPPUKU & MATCHA Nihonbashi
NihonbashiMitsukoshimae Station1 min
Billed as the world's first single-origin Uji matcha specialist, IPPUKU & MATCHA sits at ground level in Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, directly outside Mitsukoshimae exit A8. Rather than blending, it pours unblended matcha from individual cultivars and single tea gardens, all hand-picked first-flush leaf grown under the 400-year-old honzu shading method and finished on stone mills. What looks like a casual tea stand at the front conceals a small tea room behind it, where a tasting of two matcha served in Edo-kiriko cut glass with sweets is the signature order; reservations are recommended for that room. Terrace seating handles takeaway, and a foreign-language menu is available.
Jugetsudo Tea Shop & Cafe
GinzaHigashi-Ginza Station1 min
Run by Maruyama Nori, a seaweed house founded in 1854, Jugetsudo's Ginza branch sits on the fifth floor of Kabukiza Tower facing the theatre's rooftop garden. Kengo Kuma designed the space, dividing it with irregularly pitched bamboo screens and angling the ceiling to echo the garden eaves, roughly 3,000 bamboo stalks in all, producing a grove-like calm directly above one of Tokyo's busiest crossings. The counter and terrace serve sweets made with the house matcha alongside nori-based sandwiches and light dishes, and the shop runs tea experience courses covering sencha brewing and matcha whisking. A retail corner sells tea, nori and Kabukiza-only souvenirs.
NOA COFFEE MATCHA SALON
HarajukuHarajuku Station1 min
Opened 15 October 2025 just inside Takeshita Street, this two-floor salon splits its work between a cafe and a working tea room. The second floor serves custom Uji matcha lattes and matcha desserts supervised by Chikusuian, the Kita-Kamakura tea house, alongside NOA's long-running handmade waffles and gelato. The third floor holds Chikusuian's Harajuku annex, where a tea master whisks a bowl of usucha with a seasonal wagashi in front of you for 1,500 yen on a walk-in basis; a longer reserved plan lets you whisk your own. No etiquette knowledge is expected.
Shimokita Chaen Oyama
ShimokitazawaShimokitazawa Station4 min
A Japanese tea specialist run by the Oyama family, whose head holds the tenth dan, the highest grade awarded to Japanese tea appraisers. After 51 years in the old Maruwa Center, the shop moved in October 2021 to reload, the low-rise complex built on the former railway land between Shimokitazawa and Higashi-Kitazawa. It is best known for matcha kakigori made with Marukyu Koyamaen matcha from Uji, and it sells that matcha by the tin alongside sencha and gyokuro. Retail runs from morning, but the tearoom service is takeaway and opens only in the afternoon, so timing matters. Summer waits are common.
Suzukien Asakusa matcha gelato
AsakusaAsakusa Station5 min
Home of the famous seven-step matcha gelato, with Level 7 marketed as the strongest matcha gelato in the world. Pure-style flight from sweet to almost bitter, perfect for tasting the polyphenol intensity climb without the formality of a tea ceremony. Cup or cone, single or double scoop. The shop sits two blocks from Sensoji and queues outside on weekends — visit on a weekday morning to compare Level 1 against Level 7 side-by-side and feel how astringency builds across the spoonfuls.
TEA TATAMO!
SangenjayaSangenjaya Station5 min
A small tea stand on Route 246 a few minutes from Sangenjaya station, built around tatami benches inside and out. The menu is deliberately narrow: organic, pesticide-free first-flush leaf from Shizuoka, milled to powder and served as just two teas, matcha and hojicha, straight or as lattes with organic milk. Each cup is whisked to order with a chasen rather than shaken from a premix, which the shop frames through the tea-ceremony idea of ichigo ichie. Matcha basque cheesecake and matcha terrine are the sweets to know. Bamboo straws, hours running past 23:00 and a takeaway window make it an easy stop.
THE MATCHA TOKYO Omotesando
OmotesandoMeiji-Jingumae Station3 min
The Cat Street branch of a brand built entirely on 100% organic matcha, opened in 2023 in a white building just off Omotesando. Counter seating dominates a room whose fittings borrow their shapes from tea-cultivation tools. The drinks list runs from straight whisked matcha to lattes with alternative milks, matcha lemonade, banana smoothies and a matcha protein blend, alongside castella, dorayaki and ice cream. Powder, whisks and bowls are sold at the same counter. Roughly 25 seats, takeaway available, and payment is cashless only, which suits the steady tourist traffic on this stretch.
THE MATCHA TOKYO Tokyo Skytree Town Solamachi
OshiageOshiage Station2 min
The Skytree branch of THE MATCHA TOKYO, a 100% organic matcha brand with shops from Omotesando to Hong Kong, Bangkok and Dubai, opened here in March 2024. It occupies unit 11 on the first floor of Solamachi's East Yard, about a minute from Oshiage Station, and is the largest of the group's Tokyo shops by floor area. Drinks come unsweetened by default, so ask if you want sugar; the matcha soft serve is dusted with crunchy matcha sugar crystals. Forty seats, free wi-fi, English-speaking counter staff, and a long shelf of matcha powder, financiers and milk jam for souvenir buyers. Open 09:00 to 22:00 daily.
Toraya Tokyo Midtown
RoppongiRoppongi Station8 min
500-year-old confectioner now with a contemporary tearoom in Tokyo Midtown. Quietly elegant interior; matcha is whisked tableside and served with seasonal namagashi modelled on Edo motifs. Strong choice for travellers who want history wrapped in a comfortable Roppongi setting — the gallery on the lower floor traces Toraya's wagashi designs across centuries. Pair the koicha with their signature yokan; older guests often pick this over the more performative ceremony shops because the staff give space to enjoy rather than narrate.