
[2024] 12 recommended cake shops in Kyoto
To make the most of your day, it is essential to get a good start. To help you get an early start, our editorial department will introduce you to some cafes where you can go for morning breakfast!
We have collected unique mornings at fashionable cafes in Kyoto City. If you wake up early and go out, you will surely find new discoveries and delicious mornings.
Pick up a Japanese breakfast that is easy to wake up to in the morning. The lineup is sure to please even those who entertain guests.
Pick up a morning meal at a coffee shop. Enjoy "the same taste as usual" with coffee brewed by the owner at a coffee shop.
Vintage style with the warmth of wood. As a showroom and café run by the renovation office SCHOOL BUS, it stands out even along Kawaramachi Street. The morning set includes a French toast plate with the gentle aroma of eggs and maple syrup, and a croissant plate.
French toast plate for 1,100 yen. Fluffy baguette soaked in egg mixture the day before. Flat white with fun latte art is +150 yen.
Mr. Ito, who has worked as an Italian chef for more than 20 years, opened this café, which mainly serves sweets. The sweets, such as pancakes with a gentle, traditional flavor and expressive doughnuts that are intentionally made in an irregular shape, will make you feel happy from the morning.
Light and chewy pancakes for 850 yen, made with only safe ingredients. They are based on Chef Ito's wife's recipe.
Located on the approach to Kiyomizu-dera Temple, the friendly Umeda Brothers warmly welcome you to this café, where coffee aroma wafts through the DIY-painted white space. Freshly dusted with millet sugar, the doughnuts are deliciously crispy and light with a rich wheat flavor. A sweet treat, a cup of coffee, and outstanding hospitality make for a wonderful morning.
A 550 yen latte made with medium-roasted beans that are a blend of Brazilian and Guatemalan beans that go well with the sweetness of the milk. The dough is freshly sprinkled with cane sugar and has a rich flavor of domestic wheat for 250 yen. Custard top is +100 yen
The café [bou café] is a 5-minute walk from Kyoto Station. Enjoying breakfast in an open space will make you feel like you are on a trip. There are six types of thick-sliced toast, including butter and pizza, all with visuals that will cheer you up in the morning. The popular green tea lattepresso, made with matcha green tea produced in Kyoto, is naturally sweet and perfect for a refreshing morning.
[Cheese & Eggs: 5 cm thick bread cut into thick slices, with a yolk that flows through the bread, ¥650.
A bakery founded in Austria in 1569 and awarded the title of "royal warrant" is now in Kyoto. The unique and addictive pretzel with its firm texture can be enjoyed either as it is or as a sandwich. Enjoying freshly baked bread on the terrace with Lake Biwa Sosui running across the street will make you feel elegant from the morning.
Pretzel sandwiches with rye and whole wheat flour, using a homemade flavorful yeast solution to bring it closer to the local flavor. 648 yen for pickled herring and 605 yen for a melange (cafe latte).
A restaurant specializing in egg dishes supervised by Cotelette, a popular Western-style restaurant in Fushimi Momoyama. The chef has made many prototypes of the pancakes, which are perfect for breakfast, and they are delicious even when cold, with an irresistible chewy texture. The signature dish, "Strawberry Whip - If it comes undone, just tie it back together again," is filled with strawberries and perfect for mornings when you want to replenish your vitamin intake.
Strawberry Whip - If it comes untied, just tie it up again - 1,500 yen. Full of whip and strawberries, very satisfying.
A doughnut specialty store based on the concept of an interactive doughnut factory. It opens at 9:00 a.m., making it perfect for mornings when you want a sweet treat. The ingredients are organic, naturally derived, and locally produced for local consumption, making it easy on the body. Special seasonal doughnut melts are also available.
Donut Melt Strawberry 950 yen. An eat-in only menu item. The dough soaked in special syrup is moist and tastes like a doughnut!
The creperie was loved in Sanjo Meitengai and moved to a new location in 2021 in an area where one can feel the richness of Higashiyama's nature. The interior of the store has a modern Japanese atmosphere and a tsuboniwa garden with a view of Eikando Hall. The galette, made of buckwheat flour 1001 TP3T, is baked at high temperatures, and ingredients such as eggs, ham, and mushrooms are woven into the dough, resulting in a chewy inside and a crispy, savory surface.
Galette with bacon, fried egg, cheese, tomato, and green salad ¥1,080
A bakery café operated by the popular café Bread and Espresso. The most popular beef cutlet sandwich is made with bread that is as soft as the meat and has a great crispiness. There is also a morning menu that includes today's croque-monsieur, buttered toast with starchy sauce, and a drink.
Beef cutlet sandwich with drink 2500 yen. The 1.5cm-thick beef cutlet made with tenderloin, a rare cut of red meat, is full of volume.
The dazzling mornings suit the area with its greenery and Sosui canal. This bakery-cafe opens at 8:00 a.m. in Okazaki. The morning and brunch menu features a healthy lineup of fruit sandwiches, homemade granola, and Cobb salad. Pistachio croissants and cinnamon rolls lined up by the window are also available for eat-in.
Avocado and poached egg open sandwich with a slice of avocado paste ON top for 1,430 yen. The bitterness of the kale salad is also perfect for the morning. Drink set + 330 yen
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