Ranked shortlist · 10 of 33 cafes and juice bars
Best cafes and juice bars in Sendai
The 10 most notable cafes and juice bars 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
喜久水庵東仙台本店
宮城野区小鶴3丁目8-8
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.258, percentile 100 of 33
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2
ガネッシュ・ティールーム 定禅寺通店
宮城県仙台市青葉区国分町３丁目３−３
257 m from Kōtōdai-Kōen Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.247, percentile 96.88 of 33
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3
ハムステッドティールーム
青葉区一番町3丁目8-24
192 m from Aoba-dori Ichibancho Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.244, percentile 93.75 of 33
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4
喜久水庵南吉成本店
宮城県仙台市青葉区南吉成２丁目１７−１
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.242, percentile 90.63 of 33
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5
喜久水庵南仙台本店
宮城県仙台市太白区柳生２丁目６−３
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.238, percentile 87.5 of 33
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6
お茶の井ヶ田喜久水庵仙台中央本店
宮城県仙台市青葉区中央２丁目５−９
150 m from Hirose-dōri Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.238, percentile 84.38 of 33
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7
喜久水庵 ナゴミ
杜せきのした5丁目3-1
168 m from Morisekinoshita Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.229, percentile 81.25 of 33
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8
寿ミルクティー
青葉区一番町3丁目1-15
142 m from Aoba-dori Ichibancho Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.184, percentile 78.13 of 33
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9
Sendai多目的茶室「面白庵」
Honcho, 2 Chome−19−9 クリスタルパレス本町ビル 東側4F
239 m from Kōtōdai-Kōen Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.183, percentile 75 of 33
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10
芭蕉園
青葉区国分町2丁目4-15
427 m from Kōtōdai-Kōen Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.167, percentile 71.88 of 33
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).