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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 168 cafes and juice bars

Best cafes and juice bars in Kyoto

The 10 most notable cafes and juice bars in Kyoto, 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

    Chasanraku Tea Stand

    7 Sagatenryuji Tsukurimichicho

    315 m from Torokko Saga Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.151, percentile 100 of 168

  2. 2

    茶舗赤門

    宇治蓮華21

    450 m from Uji Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.149, percentile 99.4 of 168

  3. 3

    宇治茶道場匠の館

    宇治又振17-1

    410 m from Uji Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.149, percentile 98.8 of 168

  4. 4

    伊藤久右衛門京都駅前店

    下京区塩小路通り烏丸西入ル東塩小路町579-1

    179 m from Kyoto Municipal Subway Kyōto Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.149, percentile 98.2 of 168

  5. 5

    辻利宇治本店

    宇治妙楽156

    158 m from Uji Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.149, percentile 97.6 of 168

  6. 6

    紅茶専門店 Anna Maria

    右京区嵯峨天龍寺北造路町13

    368 m from Torokko Saga Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.148, percentile 97.01 of 168

  7. 7

    Tea Ceremony Nagomi

    Masuyacho, 349-7 2 階

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.147, percentile 96.41 of 168

  8. 8

    梅園清水店

    東山区清水3丁目339-1

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.147, percentile 95.81 of 168

  9. 9

    伍町カフェ

    宇治壱番63

    115 m from Uji Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.146, percentile 95.21 of 168

  10. 10

    錦一葉

    中京区鍛冶屋町210

    339 m from Kyoto-Kawaramachi Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.146, percentile 94.61 of 168

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).