Kissa Soil, Nezu

Kissa Soil (喫茶ソイル) is a charming cafe in Nezu (a suburb next to Ueno), which operates out of a restored house from the Meiji period. This is a very new cafe, having only opened at the beginning of October 2026. We only stumbled upon it by chance when we attempted to visit the very popular Kayaba Coffee in Ueno, which was fully booked out, but they pointed us on to Soil, their new sister store, which wasn’t too crowded when we visited on a weekday. In keeping with their name, they had a custom counter that resembles layers of soil. The space is pretty tiny - only two rooms with a choice of either tatami or table seating. Soil’s sister store Kayaba has a reservation system and sometimes doesn’t allow walk-ins at all, so I could see this place eventually ending up going down the same route. Soil does espresso, hand-drip coffee, teas and matcha. They had a choice of four separate single origin beans (both washed and natural) for the pour-overs, all medium roast. They also had a really…

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