Coffee Shops & Morning Service

Nagoya city

If you’re in Nagoya, get up early and grab breakfast at a coffee shop.

Don't get breakfast at Tiffany’s—get it at a coffee shop. This is the classic Nagoya morning style. For the price of a drink, you can enjoy a “morning service” breakfast heaped with boiled eggs and toast. In Nagoya, coffee shops work hard to outdo each other to provide morning services you won't find anywhere else! As the menus became more and more lavish, a breakfast culture formed unlike anything found in Tokyo or Osaka. Incidentally, the English word “morning" has been borrowed into Japanese to describe the breakfast sets served at coffee shops. Nagoya’s Komeda Kohiten coffee shop is nationally famous for its morning service. In addition, Komeda also serves a massively popular dish of its own devising—the shironowaru, a Danish topped with ice cream.

You can order the morning service all day in this comforting coffee shop.

Want to try the morning service, but no good at getting up early? Well, why not try a coffee shop that serves the morning service all day? The Lyon Coffee Shop, located right next to Nagoya Station, serves six kinds of morning service. One popular item is the Ogura bean jam sandwich, which contains sweet red bean paste inside toasted bread. Filled to bursting with delicately sweet bean paste, this delight goes very well with coffee.
On public holidays, mornings are so popular that a queue forms. We recommend lunchtimes, which are a little less crowded.

A coffee shop right in the TV tower building, visited by Haruki Murakami.

The Kato Coffee Shop is where coffee lovers gather. Order the morning service and you can choose from a selection of sets: 2 cups of coffee brewed by the server, fresh toast, hearty German sausages, and more. The Kato Coffee Shop is also famous for selling its own roasted in-house coffee beans—the “Coffee Zenzai” said to be enjoyed one of Japan’s most famous novelists, Haruki Murakami. Each store offering the morning service in Nagoya has its own menu. It can be a lot of fun to travel around the different coffee shops each morning.

For reference

Lyon Coffee Shop 

Address:

 Mitsui Building Annex, B1
1-24-21 Meiekiminami, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
Phone

052-551-3865
Opening hours

8 am to 6 pm
Regular days of closure

 None

Kato Coffee Shop

Address

Sakura Building 1F
1-3-2 Higashisakura, Higashi-ku, Nagoya-shi
Phone

052-951-7676
Opening hours

7 am to 7 pm
(weekends and holidays: 8 am to 5 pm)
Regular days of closure

None
Website 

http://www.katocoffee.com/

Access

Chubu Centrair International Airport is a 1-hour flight from Haneda Airport.

Chubu Centrair International Airport is a 100-minute flight from Sapporo’s New Chitose Airport.

Chubu Centrair International Airport is a 75-minute flight from Sendai Airport.

Chubu Centrair International Airport is a 65-minute flight from Matsuyama Airport.

Lyon Coffee Shop

 Nagoya Station is 40 minutes by Meitetsu express line from Central Japan International Airport Station. Lyon Coffee Shop is a 3-minute walk from Nagoya Station

Kato Coffee Shop

Nagoya Station is 40 minutes by Meitetsu express line from Central Japan International Airport Station. Hisaya-Odori Station is 5 minutes by subway from Nagoya Station.
Kato Kissaten is a 5-minute walk from Hisaya-Odori Station.