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No. 34 in the world · November 2026

Kayaba Coffee

Yanaka, Taito · Tokyo, Japan

a hand drip through a coneNo. 34
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The one cup to order

A hand-dripped house coffee with the tamago sando (soft egg sandwich)

When it's quiet: Weekday mornings; weekends there's a wait.

A Yanaka kissaten since 1938, in an old wooden house in the part of Tokyo that survived the war, revived with care.

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Kissaten hand drip: the slow, dark Tokyo cup

Kissaten hand drip: the slow, dark Tokyo cup

8 min · 1 cup (about 150 ml). The cup of Tokyo's old coffee houses like Café de l'Ambre and Kayaba: darker roasts, a flannel or paper drip poured a few drops at a time, and a thick, sweet, round cup served in fine china.

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