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Matcha shops in Tokyo
2 shops serving matcha latte in Jiyugaoka.
Kosoan
JiyugaokaJiyugaoka Station11 min
Restored Taisho-era farmhouse with a tatami tea room overlooking a moss garden. Matcha set is served in old porcelain and you keep your shoes off at the entry. Suburban-feeling escape from central Tokyo with the calmest soundscape of any shop on this list — outside of cicada season the only sound is the kettle. About 25 minutes by Toyoko line from Shibuya, easily combined with the Jiyugaoka cafe strip or a walk along the Kuhonbutsu river path.
Re:Route CAFE Jiyugaoka
JiyugaokaJiyugaoka Station2 min
A basement tea cafe two minutes from Jiyugaoka station that treats Japanese tea as something to drink, eat and do. Matcha sits alongside sencha, gyokuro, hojicha and wakocha, brewed in a kyusu or poured into wine glasses to open the aroma, with the same leaf served at different temperatures to show how sweetness and astringency shift. The sweets are built from tea rather than flavoured with it: a tea terrine, a tea bonsai, a moss-garden dessert. Bookable workshops cover whisking matcha yourself, roasting your own hojicha and shaping nerikiri wagashi. Drinking and eating need no reservation; the hands-on courses do.