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Food
Nakajima no Ochaya
A cafe worth a slow morning · Tokyo, Japan
Photo: Reinhold Möller Ermell · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.6★Rating
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The experience
A teahouse on a small island in the tidal pond at the centre of Hama-rikyū Gardens, reached by long wooden bridges. Originally an Edo-period resting pavilion for the shogun and rebuilt after the war to the historical plans, it is the only teahouse in the garden that actually operates as a café. You take your shoes off and sit on tatami with the windows open onto the water and the Shiodome towers beyond.
Matcha on tatami over a saltwater pond, with the office towers kept at a safe distance.
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Where it is
Tokyo, Japan · Hama-rikyū, Chūō. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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