The 5 Best Matcha Cafés in Yokohama (2026)

The go-to matcha destination for visitors to Yokohama, positioned directly within the CIAL shopping complex that connects to Yokohama Station — making it the most accessible quality matcha option in the city by some margin. Saryo Suisen operates as a calm, refined Japanese tea parlour in a context (a major station mall) that usually produces the opposite: the interior is designed to filter out the transit noise and create an atmosphere appropriate for taking tea seriously. The matcha lattes are consistently well-executed, the Japanese sweet selection changes to reflect the season, and the staff understand the tea programme thoroughly enough to answer questions about preparation and sourcing. For visitors arriving by Shinkansen or passing through on the way to other parts of the city, Saryo Suisen offers a genuinely good matcha experience with no planning required. The standard against which other Yokohama options are measured.

The most atmospheric matcha experience in Yokohama, located inside Sankeien — one of Japan's most significant traditional gardens, built between 1906 and 1927 by silk merchant Tomitaro Hara and now designated an Important Cultural Landscape. Taishunken operates as the garden's tea house, serving a matcha set with seasonal wagashi for 700 yen — an exceptionally reasonable price given the quality of the setting. The garden views from the tea house encompass historical buildings relocated from across Japan, including a three-storey pagoda, various machiya, and a Rinshunkaku villa: drinking matcha here means sitting inside one of the country's most curated collections of traditional architecture. Dango — skewered, lightly sweetened rice flour dumplings — are the additional food item worth ordering, serving as a lighter accompaniment to the matcha than the wagashi set. Best visited on weekday mornings when the garden is quieter.

One of Japan's most respected matcha producers — Marukyu Koyamaen has been cultivating and processing Uji matcha for generations, and its teas appear in the portfolios of Japan's most serious matcha professionals — with a retail and café presence in Yokohama's Landmark Tower complex in Minatomirai. The Yokohama outlet offers access to the full range of the producer's premium matcha preparations alongside dango, mochi, and a selection of Japanese confectionery made using the house's own powders. Buying matcha at a producer's own shop rather than through a distributor means both better sourcing provenance and better prices: the same teas available here are the raw materials used by professionals across Japan. For visitors who want to take matcha home as well as drink it, the retail side of the operation is worth exploring thoroughly. The Minatomirai location puts it within easy reach of the waterfront and the Cosmo Clock Ferris wheel area.

An atmospheric café praised by Time Out for its Uji matcha drinks and views over Yokohama Port — a combination that takes the standard matcha café format and elevates it through the quality of the setting. Cafe & Shop Kaguya has developed a following among both Yokohama locals and international visitors looking for something beyond the station-adjacent options: the port views provide a context that is distinctly Yokohama, referencing the city's history as Japan's primary international port in a way that feels natural rather than forced. The matcha programme uses Uji-sourced leaves and executes the standard preparations well, but it is the combination of good matcha and a genuinely beautiful view that makes this the most memorable of Yokohama's café options for many visitors. The shop component carries Japanese crafts and tea-related goods that extend the visit naturally beyond the drinks.

A dedicated matcha parlour rated 4.3 on TripAdvisor that delivers on the promise of its name — this is specifically a matcha destination, with a focused menu built around traditional preparations rather than a broad café offering with matcha as one item among many. Matcha Dokoro Bototei is intimate in scale, which creates both its charm and its limitation: the small interior fills quickly on busy days, but when you can get a seat, the atmosphere is the kind of quiet, concentrated matcha focus that is rare even in Japan. The menu covers the core preparations well — whisked ceremonial matcha, matcha latte, matcha dessert items — without over-extending into creative territory. For visitors who want a straightforward, honest matcha experience from a café that takes the ingredient seriously without surrounding it in theatre, Bototei is the most direct option in Yokohama.