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Japanese-style teahouse in Ginza, Nihonbashi
Recently, some foreign visitors to Japan know more about Japan than they think. The other day, suddenly, I was told that I wanted to enjoy Japanese tea and Japanese sweets. I usually think of coffee and tea when it comes to coffee, and I thought it was unexpected. For the future, I've been exploring Japanese-style tea boroughs from Nihonbashi to Ginza. Not all shops specializing in Japanese sweets have teahouses. There were also some sweet shops that did not offer Japanese tea for a fee.
"Tsuruya Yoshinobu" in Nihonbashi is a Japanese confectionery shop founded in Kyoto in 1803, and part of the shop is a teahouse where you can enjoy Japanese sweets and tea.
At the Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, there are "Wanocha" run by Ito En and "Setsugetsuhana" run by Eitaro.
Eitaro, located near the base of Nihonbashi, was founded in 1818, and inside the store is decorated with pictures depicting the confectionery made at the time when he exhibited at the London Expo in 1886.
In the new building of Takashimaya, there is a specialty store for tea and seaweed, and Fujipo Chabo, run by Yamamotoyama, founded in 1690. Japanese sweets are offered by a long-established Japanese sweets shop in Tokyo.
Kyobashi is a specialty store for seaweed and tea, and the Yamagataya Nori Store, which opened in Edo in 1764, has a teahouse. Here, a long-established Japanese sweets shop in Tokyo also offers sweets.
There is "HIGASHIYA" in the Paula Building in Ginza. It is a teahouse that pursues not only dried sweets but also new sweets. When I happened to visit, a group of foreigners was in the store. I thought that foreigners would come to these stores, which are a little difficult to understand, would be introduced on SNS, YouTube, or guidebooks.
Matsuya has "tea leaves".
GinzaSix is home to "Fujiyoshi Nakamura", a tea shop founded in 1854 with a head office in Uji. There are baked goods, dried sweets, tea jelly, etc.
Founded in Kyoto in the late Muromachi period, Toraya is a long-established Japanese confectionery store that opened in Tokyo in 1869 along with the relocation of Tokyo, and has a teahouse on the second floor.
