Last spring when some FT friends and I were looking for a place to sit and have coffee in Shinjuku Kabukichō, we came across this coffee shop. It’s part of a Japanese chain called Tsubakiya and turned out to be an interesting cafe. My friends were particularly impressed that they served coffee in Royal Copenhagen porcelain and that there was no indication outside other than in (old-fashioned) Japanese that it was a cafe. I couldn’t take a photo inside but it was similar to the interior photo you find if you click the link.

https://old-tokyo.info/coffee-taisho...in-maid-cafes/