The best places for matcha and Japanese tea in Tokyo in 2026 are Ippodo's Marunouchi tea room, Sakurai Japanese Tea Experience in Aoyama for tasting courses, Jugetsudo in the Kabukiza Tower, Toraya Akasaka with its wagashi café and Higashiya Ginza for modern tea pairings.
Matcha is powdered green tea whisked into a froth; gyokuro and sencha are steeped leaf teas. The best tea rooms serve them with wagashi, traditional sweets. Most also sell tea to take home.
The Tokyo shop of a Kyoto tea merchant since 1717.
Ippodo's Marunouchi store has a tea room where staff help you prepare matcha and steeped teas, with seasonal sweets.
Its teas are excellent gifts.
Good to know: Ask staff to teach you to whisk matcha.
Kokusai Building 1F, 3-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0005
Tea tasting courses at a sleek counter.
Sakurai Japanese Tea Experience serves tasting courses of Japanese teas, roasted on site, at a minimalist counter in the Spiral building.
It is a refined experience.
Good to know: Book a tasting course.
Spiral 5F, 5-6-23 Minamiaoyama, Minato City, Tokyo 107-0062
A tea shop and café in the Kabukiza Tower.
Jugetsudo, a tea brand from a long-established Tsukiji tea merchant, has a café in the Kabukiza Tower serving matcha and sweets.
It is ideal before a kabuki show.
Good to know: Pair with a kabuki single-act ticket.
Kabukiza Tower 5F, 4-12-15 Ginza, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0061
A 500-year-old sweets maker's flagship café.
Toraya, a wagashi maker with roots in the 16th century, has a flagship store in Akasaka with a café serving matcha and its famous yokan.
The building is a calm, modern space.
Good to know: Try the seasonal namagashi with matcha.
4-9-22 Akasaka, Minato City, Tokyo 107-0052
Modern wagashi and tea pairings.
Higashiya Ginza is a contemporary tea salon and wagashi shop serving tea with modern Japanese sweets.
Its packaging makes elegant gifts.
Good to know: Book the tea and sweets set.
POLA Ginza Building 2F, 1-7-7 Ginza, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0061
Ippodo, Sakurai Japanese Tea Experience and Jugetsudo are among the best.
Yes, several cultural centers and hotels offer tea ceremony experiences; book ahead.
Matcha with a wagashi sweet, or a tasting flight of gyokuro and sencha.
Ippodo and Jugetsudo sell high-quality matcha; buy small tins and keep them cool.
Matcha is a powdered green tea; other green teas such as sencha are steeped from leaves.