Leaves Coffee Roasters
Kuramae, Tokyo
Leaves Coffee Roasters is an acclaimed roastery founded in 2019 by the former professional boxer Yasuo Ishii, across the Sumida River from Kuramae. It has been named among the world's top roasters and still feels like a neighbourhood stand.
Insider tip
It only opens Friday to Monday, roughly 10am to 5pm, so check their Instagram before you make the walk.
What the guides say about Leaves Coffee Roasters
Kuramae is a further ten minutes north-east along the Sumida River, and the most residential of the four. Over the past decade it has filled with small coffee roasters, leather workshops and stationery makers, and it has the neighbourhood feel Akihabara lacks: a supermarket, a riverside promenade, a park. Leaves Coffee Roasters and Dandelion Chocolate are the two pins that explain the area's reputation. The Oedo and Asakusa lines serve it, and Senso-ji is a fifteen-minute walk north, so the Asakusa neighbourhood guide doubles as the guide to Kuramae's evenings. Choose Kuramae for the living, not for the proximity. Electric Town is about twenty minutes on foot.
Nui. Hostel & Bar Lounge at 2-14-13 Kuramae is the design-led hostel people recommend most to Akihabara visitors, so it's worth being clear that it's in Kuramae, about fifteen minutes' walk north-east across the Taito line, not in Akihabara. Dorms and private rooms, a bar that pours coffee by day, and a calmer crowd than most Tokyo hostels. Dandelion Chocolate and Leaves Coffee are round the corner.
What's on near Leaves Coffee Roasters
Upcoming events within a ten-minute walk of Leaves Coffee Roasters, from the weekly Tokyo events calendar.
Asakusa Samba Carnival
浅草サンバカーニバル
Time Parade from about 13:00 Station Asakusa (Ginza Line, Toei Asakusa Line, Tobu Line), 3 min walk
Competitive samba parade contest running since 1981, with thousands of dancers and escola-style floats from teams across Japan moving along Umamichi-dori and Kaminarimon-dori south of Senso-ji. Usually the last Saturday of August, starting around 1pm.
Hetarllen Mumriken, CC BY-SA 2.0 Autumn Night Museum Mini Concert: Museum x Music at the Edo-Tokyo Museum
オータムナイトミュージアム2026 ミニコンサート❝Museum × Music!❞ 江戸東京博物館
Time 18:00 and 19:00 Station Ryogoku (JR Chuo-Sobu Line), 3 min walk
Two 20-minute string quartet sets in front of the Nakamura-za replica in the permanent exhibition, part of the Autumn Night Museum programme.
Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 2.0 Nearby
Around Kuramae
Makers, roasters and old granaries on the Sumida, a short walk from Asakusa
Kuramae takes its name from the shogunate's rice granaries that once lined this stretch of the Sumida, and it's spent the last fifteen years turning a quarter of small workshops and wholesalers into Tokyo's quietest creative district. Come for custom notebooks, bean-to-bar chocolate, one of the world's top roasters across the river, and two old shrines with sumo and festival history.
Kuramae has 7 places on the Roam Tokyo map: 2 cafes, 2 shrines and temples, 1 shop, 1 landmark and 1 bathhouse. Read the Kuramae guide.
Good to know
- How do I get to Leaves Coffee Roasters?
- The nearest station is Honjo-azumabashi (Asakusa Line). Leaves Coffee Roasters is in Kuramae, Tokyo.
- How much does Leaves Coffee Roasters cost?
- Leaves Coffee Roasters is cheap, marked ¥ on the site's price scale.
- How long do you need at Leaves Coffee Roasters?
- Plan for 30 min.
- When is the best time to visit Leaves Coffee Roasters?
- Weekend morning.
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