Pablo (パブロ) is a chain of cafes found around Japan, famous for its delicious cheese tarts. They also have a number of Pablo Mini outlets where you can buy mini cheese tarts on the go. We joined a respectably long queue to taste test the Pablo Mini cheese tarts in the Tokyo suburb of Akihabara.
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Q-Pot is a popular Japanese brand, famous for making jewellery and accessories that look like sweets. Taking the concept full circle, Q-Pot Cafe is the official eatery where you can enjoy sweets made to look just like the Q-Pot jewellery!
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Nicolas House, also known as Nicolas Usagi, was a rabbit themed cream-puff restaurant and cafe in Tokyo’s suburb of Omotesando.
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Aoyama Flower Market Tea House is a beautiful cafe hidden within a flower shop in Tokyo. It’s every bit as magical as it sounds, and the food is as wonderful as the surroundings.
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Shiro-Hige’s Cream Puff Factory is a cafe that specialises in kawaii Totoro cream puffs. Tucked away in a quiet Tokyo suburb, this theme cafe is a treat for Studio Ghibli fans.
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Ivorish is a gourmet French toast restaurant in Japan. You read that correctly: a restaurant that specialises in French toast. We visited the Shibuya branch for their tasty twist on a classic Western breakfast (which, by the way, you can order day and night).
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The AKB48 Cafe in Akihabara is a popular venue for fans of Japan’s famous J-Pop group. We recently stopped by to check it out.
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Café de Miki with Hello Kitty is located in Diver City, one of several large shopping centres on the man-made island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay. It specialises in a small but tasty range of Hello Kitty themed pancakes, lattes and other Hello Kitty treats.
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Eorzea Cafe is located in Akihabara, a suburb of Tokyo known for it’s electronics, anime and video game shops. Eorzea is a Final Fantasy XIV themed cafe – based on a place in the game – which opened in 2014. We first visited in 2014, and since then the menu has been updated. We recently paid Eorzea a second visit to check out the new menu which came out in 2015.
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The Kawaii Monster Cafe – かわいいモンスターカフェ – opened in August 2015 as a collaboration between artist Sebastian Masuda and Diamond Dining, the company responsible for several of Tokyo’s best known themed restaurants. No less than a match made in heaven, the Kawaii Monster Cafe is right at home in iconic Harajuku (原宿), the home of kawaii. Read on to find out about the crazy, colourful dining experience Tokyo’s most trippy themed cafe has to offer.
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