Inoda Coffee
Shijo-Karasuma, Kyoto
- Daily
- 7:00 to 18:00
Last order 17:30. Open every day of the year.
Source: inoda-coffee.co.jp, checked 11 Oct 2026.
Inoda Coffee's main shop is a 211-seat coffee house behind a machiya front on Sakaimachi-dori, with staff in bow ties and gingham-check tables. The coffee comes with milk and sugar already in, the way Inoda has served it from the start. Go early for the Kyoto Breakfast, a plate of ham, scrambled eggs and salad with bread, a small orange juice and a drink.
Insider tip
The Kyoto Breakfast is ¥1,890 and is served until 11:00. Arabia no Shinju, the blend Inoda has poured since it opened, is ¥780. There are no reservations, and the garden terrace is where smoking is allowed.
What the guides say about Inoda Coffee
Inoda Coffee opens its main shop at 7:00 and serves the Kyoto Breakfast, ham and scrambled eggs with bread for ¥1,890, until 11:00. Francois Coffee House opened in 1934, and you sit in red velvet chairs under stained-glass windows. It's cash only, there are no bookings, and you queue along the wall.
20. Breakfast in an old coffee house. Inoda Coffee opens at 7:00 and serves its Kyoto Breakfast until 11:00 (¥1,890), with the coffee's milk and sugar already in. Smart Coffee on Teramachi opened in 1932 and does hotcakes from 8:00. The where to eat guide covers lunch and dinner.
Ace Hotel Kyoto, the chain's first in Japan, is part of Shinpuhkan and connects straight to Karasuma Oike Station. Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Shijo is 6 minutes from exit 2 of Shijo Station. Inoda Coffee's main shop opens at 7:00, and the Kyoto International Manga Museum is there for a wet day. Skip mid-July unless you're coming for the Gion Matsuri, when its floats stand in these streets for the yoiyama evenings of 14 to 16 July.
What's on near Inoda Coffee
Upcoming events within a ten-minute walk of Inoda Coffee, from the weekly Kyoto events calendar.
Medalist Exhibition
メダリスト展
Time 10:00 to 18:00, Fridays to 19:30 (last entry 30 min before) Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 3 min walk from exit 5
An exhibition on Tsurumaikada's figure skating manga Medalist, with new illustrations drawn for it, famous scenes from the manga, sets that recreate its world and picks from the TV anime. It fills the museum's third and fourth floor galleries.
Photograph by Mike Peel www.mikepeel.net., CC BY-SA 4.0 KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival 2027
KYOTOGRAPHIE 京都国際写真祭 2027
Time Hours and closing days vary by venue Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line)
A month of photography shows in machiya, galleries, museums and temples around the city, in exhibition spaces designed with architects and craftspeople. The 2027 theme, artists and venues are still to be announced.
Kyoto Bunpaku Hanashi no Kai Vol.34: Shofukutei Tama solo rakugo
京都文博 噺の会 Vol.34 笑福亭たま 独演会
Time 13:00 (doors 12:30) Station Karasuma Oike, exit 5, 3 min walk
Kamigata rakugo by Shofukutei Tama on tatami at the Museum of Kyoto, with an opening act by Hayashiya Kanza. No preschool children. Unreserved tatami seating by entry number.
Photograph by Mike Peel www.mikepeel.net., CC BY-SA 4.0 Kan'ei: Beauty Nurtured by Peace
特別展「寛永 太平がはぐくむ美」
Time 10:00 to 18:00, Fridays to 19:30 (last entry 30 minutes before) Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 3 min walk
Marking 400 years since Emperor Go-Mizunoo's visit to Nijo Castle, the museum shows the Kan'ei culture of Hon'ami Koetsu, Tawaraya Sotatsu and Nonomura Ninsei, with scrolls and screens of the imperial procession and a Kano Sanraku hawk painting from Nijo Castle. It's closed on Mondays (open 12 Oct) and 13 Oct, and the ticket covers the permanent galleries too.
Photograph by Mike Peel www.mikepeel.net., CC BY-SA 4.0 Japanese Road Movies, Travelling Period Dramas (film series)
ジャパニーズ･ロード･ムービー ──旅する時代劇
Time Screenings at 13:30 and 17:00 or 18:30 depending on the day, 3rd floor Film Theatre Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 3 min walk
The museum's Film Theatre shows classic Japanese period films from its collection, two screenings a day, from 2 October to 1 November.
Photograph by Mike Peel www.mikepeel.net., CC BY-SA 4.0 Live music nearby
Nearby
Around Shijo-Karasuma
Kyoto's old bank corner, with kimono streets one block back
Shijo-Karasuma is the crossing where the subway meets the Hankyu line from Osaka, and by 1915 three of the big banks stood on it. It doesn't look much like the Kyoto on the posters. Walk one block west, though, and you're on Muromachi-dori, the old kimono wholesalers' street, near the lanes where the Gion Matsuri floats are built every July.
Shijo-Karasuma has 16 places on the Roam Kyoto map: 4 shops, 3 shrines and temples, 3 cafes, 3 museums, 1 restaurant, 1 bar and 1 neighbourhood. Read the Shijo-Karasuma guide.
Good to know
- What is the address of Inoda Coffee?
- 140 Doyucho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto (in Japanese: 京都市中京区堺町通三条下る道祐町140番地).
- What are the opening hours of Inoda Coffee?
- Daily 7:00 to 18:00. Last order 17:30. Open every day of the year.
- How do I get to Inoda Coffee?
- The nearest station is Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line). Inoda Coffee is in Shijo-Karasuma, Kyoto.
- How much does Inoda Coffee cost?
- Inoda Coffee is mid-range, marked ¥¥ on the site's price scale.
- How long do you need at Inoda Coffee?
- Plan for 45 min.
- When is the best time to visit Inoda Coffee?
- Right at opening.
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