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Ask A Giraffe
This casual cafe is our favourite of the six restaurants in the new Shin-Puh-Kan shopping complex. They offer light meals (sandwiches, pastas, salads) and all the standard coffee and drinks, which make a nice pick-me-up while shopping here. As for the name, well, your guess is as good as ours!
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Café Bibliotec Hello!
As the name suggests, books line the walls of this cool café located in a converted machiya . You can get the usual range of coffee and tea drinks here, as well as light café lunches. It's popular with young ladies who work nearby and it's a great place to relax with a book or magazine. Look for the plants out front.
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Café Carinho
This excellent little café near Ginkaku-ji is one of the only places in town where you can find proper bagel sandwiches. It also serves daily specials, light meals and excellent tea and coffee (from around ¥400 ). There is wi-fi for those with laptops. The owner speaks English and Portuguese, which makes ordering a breeze. All told, this is one of the best spots in the neighbourhood for a drink or meal.
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Inoda Coffee
This chain is a Kyoto institution and has branches throughout the city. Though slightly overrated for the price, the old-Japan atmosphere at this, Inoda's main shop, is worth a try, especially if you want something Japanese rather than international.
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Kibune Club
The exposed wooden beams and open, airy feel of this rustic café make it a great spot for a cuppa while exploring Kibune. In the winter, the staff sometimes crank up the wood stove, which makes the place rather cosy. It's easy to spot.
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Komichi
This friendly little teahouse is perfectly located along the Arashiyama tourist trail. In addition to hot and cold tea and coffee, it serves uji kintoki in summer and a variety of light noodle dishes year-round. The picture menu helps with ordering. The sign is green and black on a white background.
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Kyō-Hayashiya
If you need a change from large American coffee chains and want to try some good Japanese green tea - and enjoy a nice view over the mountains while you're at it - this is the place for it. Kyō-hayashiya also has a handy picture menu.
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Lugol
For a quick cuppa or a snack in groovy surroundings, this cosy coffee shop on the west side of Downtown Kyoto is a very nice choice. We go there for decorating ideas as much as for the drinks.
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Organic Café Aurora
This fine little café in a traditional Japanese house is a good spot for a cuppa before or after visiting the temple. You can choose from 25 varieties of tea. Simple meals are also served. The small garden is nice to gaze out on as you sip your tea. It's a few minutes' walk up the road from the station, on the right. There is an English sign.
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Park Café
This cool little café always reminds us of a Melbourne coffee shop. It's on the edge of the Downtown Kyoto shopping district and is a convenient place to take a break. The comfy seats invite a nice long linger over a cuppa and the owner has an interesting music collection.
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Prinz
Behind the blank white façade of Prinz, you'll find a café/restaurant, gallery, bookshop, garden and library - a chic island of coolness in an otherwise bland residential neighbourhood. You can sit at the counter and request music from the CDs that line the walls. The lunch set usually includes a light assortment of Western and Japanese dishes, generally on the healthy side of things. Coffee starts at around ¥300 .
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Saraca Nishijin
This is one of Kyoto's most interesting cafés - it's built inside an old sentō (public bathhouse) and the original tiles have been preserved. Light meals and coffee (around ¥400 ) are the staples here. The honjitsu Nishijin (daily Nishijin lunch; around ¥890 ) plate is decent value. Service can be slow and scattered but the interesting ambience makes it worth a look. It's near Funaoka Onsen and is easy to spot.
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Shinshindō Notre Pain Quotidien
This atmospheric old Kyoto coffee shop is a favourite of Kyoto University students for its curry and bread lunch set (around ¥780 ), which is kind of an acquired taste. It's located near the university. Look for the glazed tile bricks and the big window out the front. There's a small English sign and English menus are available.
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