We introduce you to some ice cream stores that are worth going out of your way to visit, including a hot new store that just opened and a store where the lines are never-ending!
1, KITH TREATS TOKYO (Shibuya)
Cereal ice cream bar from New York apparel brand KITH. This is currently the only store in Japan. After choosing your favorite ice cream or milkshake, you can customize it by choosing from a wide variety of toppings, including cereals. Seasonal specials such as green tea and cherry blossom flavors are also available.
📍 MIYASHITA PARK North 2F, 6-20-10 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku
👉Official website🚇About 2 minutes walk from Shibuya Station
2, Good Choice (Jiyugaoka)
A fresh ice cream and espresso store opened in 2024. Using only natural, high-quality raw milk, Good Choice offers organic ice cream with a new texture that has never existed before, using only the finest ingredients and production methods. Periodic limited time offerings such as “liqueur x raw ice cream” are also available.
📍 Jun Building 1F, 1-15-10 Jiyugaoka, Meguro-ku
👉Official account🚇About 5 minutes walk from Jiyugaoka Station
3, teal ( Kayabacho )
A chocolate and ice cream store where Japan’s top class chocolatiers and patissiers work together. The shop offers a world of sweets that blend tradition and innovation, using carefully selected, high quality ingredients. The store, renovated from the former residence of Eiichi Shibusawa, offers a menu that changes with the seasons, including parfaits.
📍 Nisshokan 1F, 1-10 Nihonbashi Kabuto-cho, Chuo-ku
👉Official Website🚇About 5 minutes walk from Kayabacho Station
4, TUTTO (Kiyosumi-Shirakawa)
Offers plant-based vegan gelatowithout milk, eggs, or white sugar. Among MYLK (plant-based milk), which is attracting increasing attention in Europe and the U.S., only high-quality almond milk is used. The shop also offers BELATO, a drinkable gelato, and a new vegan crepe menu that uses gelato. The second store in Tokyo, the Kiba Park store, will open in January 2024.
📍 Laffeyville Kiyosumi-Shirakawa EAST 2, 1-3-7 Tokiwa, Higashi-ku
👉Official website🚇About 6 minutes walk from Kiyosumishirakawa Station
5, Herb Ice Stand ERB (Meguro)
Opened in January 2024, this craft herbal ice cream stand with green walls and opening lined with trees looks impressive, and uses herbs, spices, and citrus fruits. 4 kinds of ice cream as well as caffeine-free herbal tea and decaf coffee are offered.
📍 Daiwa Meguro Square 1F, 1-6-17 Meguro, Meguro-ku
👉Official accountAbout 4 minutes walk from 🚇Meguro Station
6, Harlow ICE CREAM (Hiroo)
An ice cream store from Kobe, opened in 2022. Classic flavors of ice cream are made without white sugar and with high-quality dairy products from Hokkaido. The fresh chocolate, cookies, jam, and homemade cones inside are all handmade.
📍 Y’s pleadeas 101, 3-2-12 Hiroo, Shibuya-ku
👉Official website🚇About 17 minutes walk from Omotesando Station
7, Midnight Farm (Oshiage)
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Located about a 3-minute walk from Oshiage Station (Skytree), Midnight Farm offers ice cream made from a unique blend of rich cream and carefully selected ingredients until midnight. The store specializes in nighttime ice cream, serving ice cream made from its own unique blend of rich cream and carefully selected ingredients until 24:00. Ryogoku Yokozuna Yokocho branch is also available.
📍 3-3-8 Oshiage, Sumida-ku
👉Official site6 minutes walk from Oshiage Station
8, MELTING IN THE MOUTH (Hiroo)
Soft-serve ice cream blended with organic milk is popular for its rich, uncluttered taste and photogenic appearance. The menu also includes a wide variety of other items, such as “I Am Tiramisu,” an authentic tiramisu made with Hokkaido mascarpone and plenty of premium cocoa, combined with original soft serve ice cream, and “Original Milkshake,” a thick, standard milkshake made with organic milk.
📍 5-17-10 Hiroo, Shibuya-ku
👉Official website🚇About 4 minutes walk from Hiroo Station
9, YAYOI TOKYO (Sangenjaya)
Opened in July 2023, this is a sweet store with gelato as its main ingredient, where patissier Yosuke Otsuka serves as chef patissier. All gelato is egg-free, fruit flavors are milk-free, and the amount of sugar used is moderate compared to typical gelato and ice cream. The store is decorated with visuals of flowers symbolizing the budding March “Yayoi” season, and customers can enjoy high-quality sweets in the standing-style store.
📍 2-23-10 Taishido, Setagaya-ku
👉Official WebsiteApproximately a 4-minute walk from Sangenjaya Station
10, Livisco (Ginza)
A gelato specialty store with its main store in Karuizawa. Every morning, they serve handmade gelato made from fresh milk and seasonal fruits and vegetables of particular provenance. Sugar content is kept to a minimum and no eggs are used. The menu includes the standard “Obuse Milk” and seasonal specials.
📍 2F Oji Salmon, 3-7-12 Ginza, Chuo-ku
👉Official website🚇About 3 minutes walk from Higashi-ginza Station