Blue Bottle Coffee Kyoto
Okazaki, Kyoto
- Daily
- 9:00 to 18:00
Source: store.bluebottlecoffee.jp, checked 11 Oct 2026.
Blue Bottle's first cafe in Kansai opened in March 2018 in a two-storey machiya more than 100 years old, a few minutes' walk from Nanzen-ji. Inside, the old posts, beams and bare clay walls stay, under a tall open ceiling with big windows.
Insider tip
It opens at 9:00 every day, and it's at its quietest just after opening, before the daytime crowds. There are 44 seats and a terrace in the courtyard garden, and Keage Station is about six minutes away on foot.
What's on near Blue Bottle Coffee Kyoto
Upcoming events within a ten-minute walk of Blue Bottle Coffee Kyoto, from the weekly Kyoto events calendar.
Kyoto City Zoo Autumn Night Opening
京都市動物園 秋の夜間開園
Time 10 to 12, 17, 24 and 31 Oct and 7 Nov, open to 20:00 (last entry 19:30) Station Keage (Tozai Line), 7 min walk
On seven autumn days the zoo stays open until 20:00 and is lit after dark, with keeper talks at 17:30, 18:00 and 18:30 and an outdoor film at 19:00 from 12 Oct. Entry is the usual ¥750, free for junior high school students and younger, and gorillas, monkeys and some birds aren't on show at night.
inunami, CC BY 2.0 Awata Matsuri
粟田神社大祭（粟田祭）
Time Night lantern procession 11 Oct from 17:00, kenboko procession 12 Oct from 10:00 Station Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 7 min walk
Awata Shrine's main festival runs for six days. Come on the evening of 11 Oct for the Awata Daitoro, big painted lanterns paraded through the parish, or on 12 Oct from 10:00 for the kenboko halberds, said to be the forerunners of the Gion Matsuri floats.
Awata Matsuri
粟田神社大祭（粟田祭）
Time Yowatari from 17:00 (Sun), procession from 10:00 (Sports Day) Station Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 7 min walk
Awata Shrine's festival runs over the Sports Day weekend. The Oide-matsuri is on the Saturday evening and the Yowatari night procession on the Sunday, and on Sports Day kenboko halberds, said to be the forerunners of the Gion Matsuri floats, go out ahead of the mikoshi. The main rite follows on 15 October.
Eikan-do Autumn Treasure Exhibition
永観堂 秋の寺宝展
Time 9:00 to 17:00 (last entry 16:00) Station Nanzenji Eikando-michi bus stop (City Bus 5), 3 min walk
Eikan-do brings out Important Cultural Properties from its collection while its roughly 3,000 maples turn. The ¥1,500 ticket includes the garden, and the nearest bus stop, Nanzenji Eikando-michi, closes at the busiest times.
Tetsuhiro Terada, CC BY 2.0 Thinking Sculptors: Raphaël Zarka and Horiuchi Masakazu
思考する彫刻家 ラファエル・ザルカと堀内正和（仮称）
Time 10:00 to 18:00 (last entry 17:30), closed Mondays except 22 March and 3 May Station Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 8 min walk
The Paris sculptor Raphaël Zarka, known for sculpture you can skate on, shown with the Kyoto-born abstract pioneer Horiuchi Masakazu through finished works, sketches, notebooks and models. Zarka is researching at Villa Kujoyama and will show new pieces made there.
そらみみ, CC BY-SA 3.0 Nearby
Around Okazaki
Art museums, Meiji gardens and Nanzen-ji along the Lake Biwa Canal
Okazaki is Kyoto's museum quarter. Two art museums sit either side of the approach to Heian Shrine, by its giant torii, and the zoo, a crafts museum and ROHM Theatre Kyoto are a few minutes away round Okazaki Park. Follow the Lake Biwa Canal east and you're at Nanzen-ji, with Eikan-do and Murin-an a short walk from its gate.
Okazaki has 27 places on the Roam Kyoto map: 9 shrines and temples, 6 museums, 4 restaurants, 2 cafes, 2 shops, 2 landmarks and 2 parks and gardens. Read the Okazaki guide.
Good to know
- What is the address of Blue Bottle Coffee Kyoto?
- 64 Nanzenji Kusakawacho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto (in Japanese: 京都府京都市左京区南禅寺草川町64).
- What are the opening hours of Blue Bottle Coffee Kyoto?
- Daily 9:00 to 18:00.
- How do I get to Blue Bottle Coffee Kyoto?
- The nearest station is Keage (Tozai Line). Blue Bottle Coffee Kyoto is in Okazaki, Kyoto.
- How much does Blue Bottle Coffee Kyoto cost?
- Blue Bottle Coffee Kyoto is cheap, marked ¥ on the site's price scale.
- How long do you need at Blue Bottle Coffee Kyoto?
- Plan for 30 min.
- When is the best time to visit Blue Bottle Coffee Kyoto?
- At 9am opening.
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