Cafe / Coffee Shop Spots in Nara Area
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- Tenpyoan (Todai-ji Temple Branch)
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4.524 Reviews - Gourmet / Alcohol
- Nara Pref. Narashi Kasuganochou 16 Todaiji Temple Yumeikaze Hiroba
- This is a Japanese confectionary store in the Yume-Kaze Plaza in front of the gate of the Todai-ji Temple in Kasugano Town, Nara City. The store makes sweets from locally grown ingredients such as Japanese Yamato-imo yam and Yoshino-kuzu arrowroot. A popular item is the Japanese hotcake sweet bean paste sandwich called Yamato sanzan dorayaki. They are made freshly daily with red beans, and flour and eggs from a Tokachi farm. There is also a cafe on the second floor where customers can enjoy sweets and Miwa Somen noodles.
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I was looking for something sweet on my way out from Nara Park, and this shop looked really nice! I bought a small strawberry daifuku and a matcha cake with white chocolate cream filling. Let me tell...
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- Café Kotodama
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4.032 Reviews - Gourmet / Alcohol
- Nara Pref. Takaichigunasukamura Oka 1223
- This cafe located in Oka of Asuka Village, Takaichi County is run from a renovated sake brewery with close to 200 years of history. They offer their Kotodama Lunch based around fresh Asuka Village vegetables which changes every other week, and sweets including cakes and shaved ice made with Asuka Village fruits. Be aware that the only meal available is the Kotodama Lunch which is limited in supply.
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ランチで寄りました。ことだまランチ一種類のみで1650円、出てきたのは多国籍料理のようなもので、どれを食べても満足感がないというか何というか コレでこの値段？というのが正直な感想。ホールスタッフもたくさんいる割には皿が空いていても気がつかない。観光ブームや、かき氷などの映えのせいかお客様は多かったけど、2回目に行く気にはならなかった残念なお店(..)
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- Naramachi Village
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- Nara Pref. Narashi Minamichichou 14-1
- A cafe located in Minamiichi-cho, Nara City. Refurbishing an over 80-year-old machiya (traditional merchant's house), the restaurant offers a menu that includes seasonal vegetable curry, pancakes made with seasonal fruits, and mixed sandwiches made with unsalted roast ham and additive-free bread. There is a space of tatami mats with chabudai (a low table), which makes a relaxing and comfortable space.
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- Café & Shop Kaon
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4.014 Reviews - Gourmet / Alcohol
- Nara Pref. Narashi Kasuganochou 160 Kasuga Taisha Shrine National Treasure 1st floor
- A café and museum shop in the Kasugatasisha Museum in Kasugano Town, Nara City, Nara Prefecture. Here you can buy original snacks, merchandise, and illustrated books relating to the history and traditions of Kasugataisha shrine. The café space has clean, minimalist look modeled after the Kasugayama Primeval Forest. The café space’s tables, made with wood from thousand year old Japanese cedars growing on Mt. Kasuga, hint at the skills of the traditional shrine carpenters who crafted them. Based on the concept of “eternal nourishment,” the café serves items made with naturally-derived, Nara-grown ingredients with a focus on Japanese café staples such as anmitsu bean jam in syrup, matcha green tea, and pancakes. Takeout available.
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春日大社にいくため駅からバスにのったが、そこを降りるとわりあいすぐにあった。鹿の音という名前のように鹿のソフトクリームなども販売しています。わりあい地味な感じなので、こんなところにショップがあったのだと初めてしりましたが、ちょっと休憩にはよいかも
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- Kanakana
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- Nara Pref. Narashi Kunodouchou 13
- A café situated inside an old Japanese-style home in the Naramachi (Town of Nara) area centering on the former grounds of the Gango-ji Temple. The remodeled home still retains its old latticed and frosted glass windows, giving the café an old-fashioned yet somehow familiar atmosphere. The café’s signature menu item is the Kanakana-gohan, which comes with a variety of healthy Japanese side dishes, rice, and miso soup. The café’s full menu also includes cakes, pudding, and carefully selected beverages. Closest station: Kintetsu-Nara Station.
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- Kuruminoki (Ichijo Branch)
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- Nara Pref. Narashi Hourenchou 567-1
- A café situated in a home surrounded by greenery in Horen Town, Nara City, Nara Prefecture. Frequently featured in magazines and other media, Kuruminoki is known for the lines that can form outside its door. The café’s signature seasonal lunch comes with weekly changing dishes such as obanzai cuisine and mazegohan rice made with an abundance of seasonal and local Nara vegetables. The café’s homemade, healthy sweets are also popular. The café’s tranquil grounds also accommodate a knickknack shop, apparel shop, and cake studio.
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- K Coffee
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3.52 Reviews - Gourmet / Alcohol
- Nara Pref. Yamatokoriyamashi Yanagi 4-46
- A coffee shop located in Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture, a city famous for goldfish, K Coffee operates out of a former gasoline stand. A phone booth with goldfish swimming in it stands outside the entrance and is a popular spot to take photos. The former gas station office is now a kitchen and sales counter where you can buy drinks such as carefully-prepared, home-roasted drip coffee in addition to coffee beans. There are benches and chairs in front of the café where customers can enjoy their drinks.
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We eventually found this very quirky-looking and somewhat scruffy hangout in a rundown petrol station but we were really disappointed to find it was closed...Ive given it an undeserved score...but I...
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- Takabatake Salon
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4.04 Reviews - Gourmet / Alcohol
- Nara Pref. Narashi Takabatakechou 1247
- This tea garden in Takabatake Town, Nara City, is located in western-style painter Nakamura Kazuo’s old garden which has been opened to the public, across the street from the former residence of Shiga Naoya. You can feel the history of the Provence, South-France style building that was built during the Taisho period as you sit on the terrace and look at the over 100-year-old Himalayan Cedar tree. The earthen wall surrounding the property has been designated a Tangible Cultural Property. The shop is popular for its coffee made from locally roasted beans and hand-made cakes made with seasonal fruits.
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志賀直哉住居の真横にあるサロン。 紅茶とチーズケーキがとっても美味しい。 庭が綺麗なので、アウトドアでケーキを楽しんでも良し、暑い日は屋内でゆっくりしても良し。
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- Yotsuba Cafe
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5.03 Reviews - Gourmet / Alcohol
- Nara Pref. Narashi Kiderachou 954
- A café situated inside a remodeled old Japanese home in Kidera Town, Nara City, Nara Prefecture. The café is snug and old-fashioned; its townhome architecture is appropriately Nara-esque. A popular spot to enjoy a lunch or take a break in between a walk, Yotsuba has window-side counter seating as well as tatami mat seating where you can take your time with your meal. The café’s chicken, special curry with brown rice, sandwiches, daily special cakes, and other menu items are handmade with a focus on simplicity and are well-reviewed.
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나만 알고 싶은 진짜 좋은 카페 일식 목조건물 카페로 하고 있다 주인분 정말 친절. 목소리 나긋나긋 너무 친절. (2021.2기준) 현금 혹은 paypay이니 무비자 관광객들 나중에 오시는 거면 현금 챙기시는 게 좋을 듯. 오늘의 케익 진짜 맛남
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- Café Wawa
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- Nara Pref. Tenrishi Sonoharachou 183
- A mountain refuge-style café located in Tenri Kanko Noen in Tenri City, Nara Prefecture standing along the park’s mountain nature-rich hiking course. The café serves healthy dishes such as lunches made with vegetables grown in the park with no or reduced pesticides, stone oven-baked pizzas, and kuri-mochi chestnut takes made according to the same recipe used when the establishment was founded in the Showa period. Visitors can also enjoy fun park activities here such as kuri-mochi pounding and mandarin orange picking in autumn.
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- Coffee Sanpo
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4.013 Reviews - Gourmet / Alcohol
- Nara Pref. Takaichigunasukamura Oka 55-4
- This café in Asuka Village, Takaichi County, Nara, is situated across the street from the Asuka Village Office. Located in a remodeled classical styled house that exudes the taste of the former capital the shop has large windows and a relaxed atmosphere. In the rear garden you can sit on the terrace and look over Amakashi no oka hill and the site of the former Asuka Itabuki-no-miya palace. Carefully selected beans are roasted in house and the resulting hand dripped coffee is distinguished by its strong aroma and refreshing aftertaste. Along with their café menu they have a popular food menu with dishes such as Hainanese chicken rice.
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行った時期はもっと前だったかもしれない。真神原の風景が目の前で立地はいいのだが………まずコーヒーフレッシュを置いていない。仕方がないからブラックに砂糖だけでも入れようとしたら店主が「砂糖を入れる前に、コーヒーを一口でも召し上がってください」と。私は寿司を塩で食えとかラーメンのスープを残すな、などと客に主人の好みを押し付けるような通ぶった店は大嫌いなのである。拘るのなら店の前にその旨を書いておけと思...
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- Nodo Cafe
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4.01 Reviews - Gourmet / Alcohol
- Nara Pref. Narashi Gojouchou 162-2
- This café operates out of a house in Gojo Town, Nara City, giving it an at-home feeling. The shop is decorated with wooden furniture and you can easily let time slip away in the comfortable shop interior. Their Café Gohan (meal) is an everchanging lunch set and a popular choice. It is a delicious, healthy dish made up of a variety of ingredients and local vegetables and includes hand-made side dishes, rice, and miso-soup. The rice flour cakes and Japanese style sweets on the desert menu are also popular.
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薬師寺を参拝した後、お昼を食べようと伺いました。甘い物にも心引かれましたが、ランチをたのみました。基本のランチにドリンクやデザートを付けられます。美味しく炊いたご飯の量は少なめ、普通、多めから選べます。野菜をたっぷり使ったおかずでご飯が進みました！どれも美味しかったです。店内には健康に良い情報なども書かれていたりして、身体に良いものを出そうという気持ちが感じられました。米粉を使ったシフォンケーキ...
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- Hinatabokko
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4.08 Reviews - Gourmet / Alcohol
- Nara Pref. Yoshinogunyoshinochou Yoshinoyama 3056
- This log house café is located in front of the Japanese-style inn Kato along Prefectural Route 15, in Yoshinoyama, Yoshino Town. They have a “local vegetable lunch” made with over 25 different types of organic vegetables harvested in the morning (reservation required), and a rotating daily menu called “Yoshino Teishoku,” which includes Yamato Pork cutlets and Kakinoha-sushi. They also have a dessert menu with items such as Kuzumochi and ice cream, all of which can be eaten while enjoying the views of the seasons at an altitude of 400 meters.
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吉野山下千本を眺める街道沿いに建つレストラン。猪串カツの看板が目立ちます。コーヒーも楽しめますがアイスクリームをテイクアウトして桜を眺めながら食べると気分が良いです。
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- Hidamari cafe Asuka
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- Nara Pref. Takaichigunasukamura Koshi 17
- This is a cafe inside Café & Pension ASUKA located around a three-minute walk from Asuka Station. For lunch they serve dishes including curry with nutritious black rice and hayashi rice (hashed meat with rice) topped with a fluffy egg. The Hidamari Cafe Lunch, their most popular offering which changes every two weeks, is a set accompanied by several side dishes made from local vegetables, a dessert and drink.
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- Quiche Specialty Shop Le Case
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4.529 Reviews - Gourmet / Alcohol
- Nara Pref. Narashi Kasuganochou 158 Inside Nara Park
- This is a quiche specialty shop inside the grounds of Nara Park in Kasugano Town, Nara City. They serve quiche made with organic vegetables, whole-wheat flour, rye wheat flour, fermented butter and organic eggs. At lunch they offer sets with soup and they also offer a weekday-only course (reservations must be made by 12:00 the day before). For takeout they sell 15 varieties of quiche including both side-dish and dessert types, available for purchase by the piece (a whole quiche requires reservation up to two days before). They also sell lunchboxes with quiche and soup.
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We found this hidden restaurant serving italian food and quiche during our visit to Nara. The Japanese chef lived in Italy and is interpretation of italian food was delicious. We travelled with our...
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- Fukokuen
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4.07 Reviews - Gourmet / Alcohol
- Nara Pref. Ikomagunikarugachou Houryuji 2-2-35
- This is a cafe near Horyu-ji Temple, in Horyuji 2-chome, Ikaruga Town. It was built in 1887 and was used by officer of the court Harufusa Kitabatake when he lived in a nearby residence in his later years. They serve lunch with Nara foodstuffs, sweets including shaved ice, coffee made with organic beans, all served in traditionally-made Akahada-yaki ware.
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法隆寺の裏通りで少し分かりにくいですが 静かで落ち着いて食事やお茶ができます。 お店は小さいですが古い屋敷を改装して雰囲気があり お庭もきれいで和めます。 食事もどれもとても美味しかったです。 また行ってみたいと思わせるカフェでした。
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- Hackberry
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4.08 Reviews - Gourmet / Alcohol
- Nara Pref. Kashiharashi Imaichou 1-3-3
- This café is located approximately three minutes on foot from Yagi-nishiguchi Station, in 1 Chome, Imaicho, Kashihara City. The café is inside a renovated old private house, with a distinctively large hackberry tree. It has a plentiful menu with items such as German-style pancakes cooked in a Dutch oven and packed with fillings, and Kashihara bibimbap created by arranging authentic recipes from all across Jeonju City, Korea.
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The menu, though short, offers interesting dishes. I chose the hearty (and healthy) avocado poke bowl; my friends were happy with their choices of hamburg steak meal and green curry served inside...
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- Bolik Coffee
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4.015 Reviews - Gourmet / Alcohol
- Nara Pref. Narashi Nishinoshinyachou 40-1
- This café in Nishinoshinya Town, Nara City offers their own roasted coffee, baked sweets, coffee jelly made with their coffee, and coffee jelly parfait using Russian condensed milk. They also offer a food menu with dishes including the Bolik Soup Set Meal, which comes with genmai (unpolished rice) and a large soup bowl, and the Borscht Set.
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Great to recover from a day walking around Nara with a great selection of drinks and delicious cake ! Many thanks for the treat !
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- Kerinosu Gallery Café
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3.01 Reviews - Gourmet / Alcohol
- Nara Pref. Ikomashi Monzenchou 23-5
- This gallery café is located in the center of Monzen-cho, Ikoma City, which lies beside Mount Ikoma. In addition to desserts, the lunch menu is full of dishes with organically produced vegetables. There are also various events held here, such as watercolor painting classes and painting classes conducted in English.
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ランチに伺いました。無農薬の野菜を調理したランチ。肉や魚は使っていませんが、 出汁には使っているそうです。 ベジタリアンにはボリュームもあり食べごたえがあります。 マクロビの人も出汁の材料にこだわらなければ美味しく頂けます。
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- Shiratamayaeiju Saryo
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- Nara Pref. Sakuraishi Miwa 660-1
- Shiratamayaeiju Saryo is a coffee shop adjoined to the Japanese sweet shop Shiratamayaeiju, located on National Route 169 in Miwa, Sakurai City. Visitors can enjoy a cup of matcha green tea with their famous monaka (wafer cake filled with red bean jam) which boasts a history of about 170 years. They also have a seasonal menu which includes chestnut zenzai (red bean soup) in the winter and cold kudzu noodles and chilled matcha green tea in the summer.
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With a reputation almost as stellar as that of Kyoto, Nara is a must-visit for those searching for the remains of "traditional Japan." The largely green Nara city holds the majority of the prefecture’s treasures, such as the iconic Todai-ji Temple, in which a 15-meter tall Great Buddha sits, and Nara Park, where deer flock to befriend passersby. While mountains are by no means hard to come by in this area, for hiking with a reward, head to the Kii Mountains’ Yoshino district in spring, when the hillsides put on an impressive display of white and pink cherry blossoms.
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