Kaikado Café

Cafe · Kyoto-shi

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"Kaikado Café, Shop, and Studio Kaikado has been handcrafting tea caddies from copper, tin, and brasssince 1875. In2017, its fifth-generation owner, Seiji Yagi, expanded the family business to includeacafé, located justa five-minute walkfrom Kaikado’s small workshop and flagship store in Kyoto’s Kawaramachi district. Housed in a 90-year-old listed building, the café immediately drew inKyoto’s designers and architects with its bright interior comprisingconcrete walls, light golden oak tables, bookshelves, and copper lamps designed by Danish designers OeO and made by Kaikado. The minimalisteatery sells cheesecake and other goodies from the local bakery Hanakago,alongsideblendsfrom London’s Postcard Teas, brews fromTokyo’s Wani Coffee, and Kaikado'sown house-made matcha."

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352 Sumiyoshicho, Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, 600-8143, Japan Get directions

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