Cafe restaurants in Kyoto
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Café Independants
Located beneath a gallery, this cool subterranean cafe offers a range of light meals and good cafe drinks in a bohemian atmosphere. A lot of the food offerings are laid out on display for you to choose from – with the emphasis on healthy sandwiches and salads. Take the stairs on your left before the gallery.
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Café Bibliotec HELLO!
Like its name suggests, books line the walls of this cool cafe located in a converted machiya. You can get the usual range of coffee and tea drinks here, as well as light cafe lunches. Overall, this may be our favourite cafe in Kyoto, and it's worth the walk from the centre of town. Look for the plants out front.
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Komichi
This friendly little teahouse is perfectly located along the Arashiyama tourist trail. In addition to hot and cold tea/coffee drinks, it serves uji kintoki (sweet matcha over shaved ice, sweetened milk and sweet beans – sort of a Japanese Italian ice) 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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Park Café
This hip little cafe always reminds us of a Melbourne coffeeshop. It's on the edge of the downtown shopping district and a convenient place to take a break.
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Kibune Club
The exposed wooden beams and open, airy feel of this rustic cafe make it a great spot to stop for a cuppa while exploring Kibune. In the winter, it sometimes cranks up the wood stove, which makes the place rather cosy. It's easy to spot.
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Karafuneya Coffee Honten
Japan is famous for its plastic food models, but this place takes them to a whole new level – it's like some futuristic dessert museum. We like the centrepiece of the display: the mother of all sundaes that goes for ¥10,000-18,000 and requires advance reservation to order. Lesser mortals can try the tasty matcha parfait for ¥780 or any of the cafe drinks and light meals on offer.
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