Gendai Heights Cafe: Higashi-Kitazawa
Gendai Heights Cafe
3469-1659
Higashi-Kitazawa / Cafe
Kitazawa 1-45-36. Open 1pm-midnight. Closed Wednesdays.
Sun: Open Sundays

This multi-purpose art space/cafe-bar is way off the beaten track but it draws a crowd of loyal regulars, including personalities from the Tokyo art scene and local hipsters.

The incense-hazed CD shop up front is well-stocked in obscure avant-garde music from the past two decades; just past that is a retail corner selling videos, artsy toys, mens' hats and art magazines. In back is a gallery, and in between is a spacious cafe-bar area.

During the day you'll find standard cafe lunches (pastas, curries) served till 6pm, plus gourmet coffees - they roast their own beans once a week. At night there's a bigger cafe food menu plus wide-ranging cocktails (150 kinds of drinks in all); beers include the excellent Edelpils on tap for Y850/pint. The wall of vinyl records spans everything from contemporary classical to obscure folk music, but tends toward the mellow end of the spectrum in the evenings.


by Robb Satterwhite
Restaurant listing from Tokyo Food Page 4 Star Rating: recommended
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