Ranked shortlist · 10 of 274 cafes
Best cafes in Sendai
The 10 most notable cafes in Sendai, 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.
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1
むさしの森珈琲仙台富沢店
太白区富沢字川前浦29-1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.206, percentile 100 of 274
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2
damo kaffee haus
Honcho, 2 Chome−10−5 第７太田ビル １F
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.203, percentile 99.63 of 274
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3
すき家 仙台クリスロード店
青葉区中央2丁目2-29
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.203, percentile 99.27 of 274
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4
Sweet Spice Asano
2 Chome-1-40 Kakyoin
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.203, percentile 98.9 of 274
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5
NAKAO Cafe and Gallery Narita Store
成田8丁目2-9
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.202, percentile 98.53 of 274
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6
シベールの杜南中山店カフェ
泉区南中山5丁目5-47
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.201, percentile 98.17 of 274
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7
ネットカフェ＆カラオケ ダイス 仙台店
中央１丁目８−２０, ドン・キホーテ仙台駅西口ビル６Ｆ－７Ｆ, 青葉区
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.200, percentile 97.8 of 274
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8
Daily Coffee Service
4 Chome-7-7 Ichibancho
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.200, percentile 97.44 of 274
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9
Alam Interior and Cafe
Rokuchonome Minamimachi, 2−47 ＡＵＲＡ六丁の目 1F
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.197, percentile 97.07 of 274
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10
Cafe Soyo
Kashiwagi, 1 Chome−1−50 七宝ビル 2F 七寶ビル102号
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.197, percentile 96.7 of 274
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 calibration: 533 Michelin-starred restaurants in the catalogue were checked against their own group. It is the only designation that covers more than one place, so the ranking is corroborated for restaurants and uncorroborated elsewhere — the manifest says so per run. The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
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).