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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 3,658 cafes
Best cafes in Tokyo
The 10 most notable cafes in Tokyo, 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
スターバックスコーヒー 東京ミッドタウン店
"東京都港区赤坂9-7-2, 東京ミッドタウン"
255 m from Roppongi Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.205, percentile 100 of 3,658
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上島珈琲店奥沢店
奥沢2丁目12-10
224 m from Okusawa Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.204, percentile 99.97 of 3,658
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3
上島珈琲店赤坂一ツ木通り店
赤坂4丁目3-2
229 m from Akasaka-mitsuke Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.204, percentile 99.95 of 3,658
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4
cafe WALL
Shinjuku, 3 Chome−9−5 Gold Build, 3FB
94 m from Shinjuku-sanchōme Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.204, percentile 99.92 of 3,658
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5
Beck's Coffee Shop Takadanobaba
1 Chome-35-1 Takadanobaba
34 m from JR East Takadanobaba Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.204, percentile 99.89 of 3,658
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PRONTO - Beans Akabane
1 Chome-1-1 Akabane
52 m from Akabane Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.204, percentile 99.86 of 3,658
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7
crisscross
5 Chome-7-28 Minamiaoyama
239 m from Omotesandō Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.204, percentile 99.84 of 3,658
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8
コナズ珈琲成城
入間町1丁目41-1
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 99.81 of 3,658
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9
Sanrio Cafe
東池袋1丁目28-1
435 m from Tokyo Metro Ikebukuro Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.203, percentile 99.78 of 3,658
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Cafe Sally
Shinsaku, 6 Chome−9−23 NEWORKビル ２Ｆ
239 m from Musashi-Shinjō Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.203, percentile 99.75 of 3,658
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).