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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 527 cafes

Best cafes in Fukuoka

The 10 most notable cafes in Fukuoka, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.

  1. 1

    NOOICE Tenjin

    Imaizumi, 1 Chome−18−3 ルピナス本庄 1F 天神 朝食 ランチ カフェ パンケーキ

    379 m from Yakuin Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.239, percentile 100 of 527

  2. 2

    Pronto Fukuoka Tenjin

    1 Chome-12-3 Tenjin

    77 m from Tenjin Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.238, percentile 99.81 of 527

  3. 3

    Shirouzu Coffee Kegu Store

    中央区警固2丁目15-10

    566 m from Akasaka Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.237, percentile 99.62 of 527

  4. 4

    Manly

    Imaizumi, 1 Chome−18−55 天神南ロイヤルハイツ 1F

    409 m from Nishitetsu Fukuoka (Tenjin) Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.236, percentile 99.43 of 527

  5. 5

    上島珈琲店 福岡新天町店

    中央区天神2丁目8-221

    167 m from Tenjin Station, metro

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.234, percentile 99.24 of 527

  6. 6

    Entrance Cafe

    Daimyo, 2 Chome−8−18 天神パークビル

    380 m from Akasaka Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.234, percentile 99.05 of 527

  7. 7

    すき家 福岡片江店

    城南区片江1丁目24-22

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.234, percentile 98.86 of 527

  8. 8

    すき家 福岡博多駅南店

    博多区博多駅南5丁目22-16

    715 m from Chikuzen-Minoshima Station, rail

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.234, percentile 98.67 of 527

  9. 9

    cafe MARUGO

    Yakuin, 2 Chome−10−23 SUEHIRO BLDG.

    371 m from Yakuin-ōdōri Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.234, percentile 98.48 of 527

  10. 10

    すき家 495号古賀花見店

    花見東1丁目15-13

    499 m from Chidori Station, rail

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.234, percentile 98.29 of 527

How this list is made

Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:

attestation by independent providers
+0.35
record completeness (website, phone, address)
+0.25
Overture existence confidence
+0.20
Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
+0.40
brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
−0.15
same-name chain collision
−0.30

Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.

No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste

Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.

The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.

Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.

Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.

Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).