Nana's Green Tea: matcha lattes and thick tea in Tokyo

Looking for a matcha latte in Shibuya? nana's green tea runs eleven Tokyo branches, and none of them is in Shibuya. The closest is on the eighth floor of LUMINE EST in Shinjuku, a few stops along the Yamanote line; the rest sit in Jiyugaoka, Kichijoji, Kinshicho, Kitasenju, Chofu, Machida and the Tokyo Dome City area.

The detour buys you a dependable matcha latte: ¥620 for a medium, ¥720 for a large, hot or iced. There is also a bowl of matcha whisked by hand the old way for ¥680, plain tea from ¥550, and desserts from ¥750 up to a seasonal mont blanc at ¥1,780. Every price includes tax.

Matcha latte in Shibuya: where nana's green tea actually is

No Shibuya branch: the eleven Tokyo shops instead

Search for nana's green tea Shibuya and what you find is a chain, not a café with one Shibuya door. Two of the eleven shops are a couple of minutes apart in Jiyugaoka, Meguro-ku: the original one on the ground floor of Nanaha Bldg and Sunset Alley, which opened in September 2026.

The network is run by Nanaha Co., Ltd. (七葉), whose own office is in that same Jiyugaoka building. The name reads as "seven leaves", which tells you how the brand thinks about tea.

Closest to Shibuya: LUMINE EST Shinjuku on the eighth floor

LUMINE EST Shinjuku sits at 3-38-1 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, on the eighth floor of a department store. From Shibuya that is a few stops on the Yamanote line, so the practical answer to a matcha latte in Shibuya is a short train ride rather than a walk.

This branch has its own calorie and allergen sheet, so you can check what you are about to order before you pay. It is also the easiest of the eleven to combine with other shopping, which matters if you have an hour and a list.

Addresses, hours and which branch to aim for

Each branch runs its own timetable. The shop list gives you the address for every one and a link to each branch page where the day's hours are set. Nine of the eleven are out in the outer parts of the city, so if your day is anchored in Shibuya or Shinjuku, LUMINE EST Shinjuku is the sensible one.

Calorie and allergen tables come in a general set plus separate sets for LUMINE EST Shinjuku, Jiyugaoka, Sunset Alley, Ikspiari, Kansai International Airport Terminal 2 and Dazaifu Approach. Open the sheet for your own branch, because at least one recipe, the miso soup, changes from branch to branch and from season to season.

The nana's green tea menu: lattes, whisked matcha and the ¥550 floor

Matcha latte: medium and large, hot or iced

Most drinks come in two sizes. The matcha latte is ¥620 medium and ¥720 large, hot or iced, and the hojicha latte sits at the same price. The cheapest tea latte is the black sesame bean paste latte at ¥590 and ¥690, which is also where the café latte and chai latte start. Milk can be swapped for soy in anything, prices include tax, and the cup is not the same in every branch, so a large in Shinjuku and a large in Jiyugaoka are different glasses. The full list sits on the menu.

Thick tea: the hand-whisked matcha bowl

One item on the menu is not a latte at all. It is matcha whisked by hand and served in a bowl for ¥680, hot only, with a nama chocolate made from soy powder alongside. Tea and water, foam on top, no milk, and the taste is grassy and sweet rather than milky.

That bowl is the version of thick matcha most people picture, the koicha style in tea vocabulary, where usucha is the thinner version. It arrives hot, so it is not the thing to order on a hot afternoon.

Never tried whisked matcha? Start with the ¥680 bowl rather than a latte. It is the cheapest way to find out whether you like matcha at all, because a latte hides most of the tea taste under milk.

The tea side: sencha, hojicha, genmaicha

The cheapest drink in the building is a hot tea at ¥550, and the choice is better than the price suggests: Uji sencha, organic sencha, hojicha, kuromoji hojicha, genmaicha or Japanese black tea. Cold-brew sencha, hojicha and black tea are ¥550 for a medium and ¥650 for a large.

Hojicha is roasted all the way through, which gives it a toasted flavour and usually less caffeine than sencha. Genmaicha has roasted rice mixed into the leaves, and kuromoji is roasted over charcoal. Those are the three I would order if I wanted a cup that tastes like tea and not like a milkshake. To make it at home instead, my notes on green tea and matcha cover the powder and the brewing.

Matcha drinks in depth: builds, frappés and the two sugar-free teas

Lattes with toppings: the ¥670 to ¥950 band

Add toppings and you move up a band. A matcha frappé is ¥670, a soft-serve frappé ¥820 and the matcha shiratama frappé ¥900. On the latte side, brown sugar with whipped cream or a chocolate sauce puts it at ¥780 medium and ¥880 large, milk soft serve at ¥770 and ¥870, and the heaviest builds, the matcha float with matcha ice cream and shiratama, and matcha with shiratama, red bean and cream, at ¥850 and ¥950.

Building it yourself costs less than the preset version. A ¥620 latte with two ¥80 toppings comes to ¥780, and ¥850 with a ¥150 scoop of ice cream on top. The preset buys the bowl, the ice cream base and the look of it, not a cheaper ticket.

Sugar-free drinks in Tokyo: only two carry the label

Only two drinks in the whole menu are marked sugar free: matcha green tea and hojicha brown tea, both ¥620 for a medium and ¥720 for a large. The label means nothing sweet is added, so they cost the same as the sweetened versions rather than less. Every matcha latte is sweetened, and so are the frappés and the parfaits.

If caffeine is the concern rather than sugar, treat matcha as tea with a real load, because a whole cup is whisked from powder. The usual limits for a healthy adult are 200 mg in one sitting and 400 mg across a day, according to the European Food Safety Authority and the US FDA. My rule would be one matcha latte in the afternoon, then check how I sleep before making it a habit.

Add-ons: what ¥80 and ¥150 buys

Toppings are charged per item. At ¥80 you can add chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, whipped cream, shiratama, kuromitsu or red bean paste. At ¥150 you get matcha, hojicha or black sesame ice cream, or milk soft serve.

Those words are worth decoding: shiratama are white rice balls, azuki is red bean paste, kuromitsu is a brown sugar syrup, and warabimochi is a jelly made from bracken starch. Half of the dessert list only makes sense once you know them, and they all come back in the parfait and anmitsu sections.

Donburi, chazuke and the tea-lunch option

Donburi rice bowls: ¥1,120 to ¥1,470

These are the reason to come for lunch rather than for a drink. Most come in a regular and a small size, with the small one about ¥150 cheaper. The tuna with avocado and grated yam is the biggest at ¥1,470 regular and ¥1,320 small, chicken soboro is ¥1,290 and ¥1,140, white ayu with mentaiko ¥1,270 and ¥1,120, and the hash beef with cheese and the rice with cream cheese and spinach are ¥1,380.

Miso soup comes with the bowls, and its recipe changes with the branch and the season. Add-ons, meaning onsen egg, grated yam, avocado or a larger portion of rice, are ¥150 each, which is cheap next to the bowls themselves.

Chazuke and the 2026 autumn donburi

Chazuke is rice with liquid poured over it, and the liquid is the point. It runs from ¥1,090 to ¥1,450, with the broth switching between dashi and tea: Uji sencha, genmaicha, hojicha, organic sencha, and in the English version of the menu a roasted green tea with kuromoji. The two menus do not match line for line, which is a good reason to expect surprises in translation.

The new rice bowl in the 2026 autumn limited menu is an autumn eggplant donburi with a homemade sweet-spicy miso sauce at ¥1,540. The line-up changes each autumn, so treat this one as a snapshot rather than a fixture.

Matcha desserts: mont blanc, shiratama mochi parfait, anmitsu

Matcha shiratama mochi parfait and the ¥1,250 classics

These are the big ones, and the reason a ¥620 latte turns into a ¥1,250 afternoon. The matcha shiratama mochi parfait is ¥1,250, black sesame shiratama is ¥1,150, hojicha shiratama ¥1,250, matcha and hojicha nama chocolate parfaits ¥1,390 each, and the black sesame warabimochi parfait ¥1,250.

The arithmetic is simple: a preset parfait costs more than the same drink built by hand. A ¥620 latte with shiratama and red bean paste comes to ¥780, and ¥850 with a scoop of ice cream. Buy the parfait for the bowl, the ice cream base and the layers, not for the value.

Mont blanc and the autumn menu that closes on 31 October

The top of the price list is a seasonal mont blanc parfait with matcha and chestnuts under a crisp shell: ¥1,780 regular and ¥1,380 mini. It comes with a chestnut paste latte with shiratama at ¥780. Both belong to the autumn limited menu for 2026, which runs from 1 September to 31 October.

That window is the part to watch. A new line-up replaces it every autumn, so whether the same mont blanc returns next year is not something to plan around. What you can plan around is the number: one bowl costs about what a latte and a dessert cost together.

Anmitsu, warabimochi and cakes

Anmitsu is the sensible dessert here: agar jelly with syrup and bean paste, served cold as a counterpoint to a hot latte. It is ¥830 with matcha cream, ¥810 with black sesame cream and ¥810 with milk soft serve. Warabimochi with soy powder is ¥750, and the cakes, matcha chocolate cake, matcha cheesecake and hojicha rolled cake, are ¥770 each.

If a ¥1,250 parfait is beyond your budget, the matcha desserts in the ¥750 to ¥830 range are where I would go instead. One oddity: a matcha nama chocolate at ¥490 sits with the packaged tea goods rather than with the café drinks, so treat it as something to take home.

Ordering at the counter, coupons and first-visit notes

How the order works: sizes, drink sets and the kids menu

The order runs in four steps: the base drink, the size, any topping, and a drink set add-on with the dish. That last step is the useful one. A drink with a dessert or rice bowl is ¥330 for tea, cold brew, blended coffee or one of the two sugar-free teas, and ¥380 for a café latte, matcha latte or hojicha latte. It turns a drink into lunch without much money.

Milk can be swapped for soy in any drink, and prices already include tax. There is also a menu for school-age children and younger: milk at ¥250, apple juice at ¥300, soft ice cream from ¥360 to ¥400, and a mini donburi with chicken soboro or white ayu at ¥500.

Paying less: the app, e-gift and mail magazine coupons

In Japan the chain runs an official app for iOS and Android, an e-gift service, and a mail magazine that sends coupons and special offers. Any one of them can shave a bit off a family visit, and the app is the easiest to set up because you can do it before you fly.

They are Japanese channels, and they are the ones that work with this network. If you are visiting Tokyo, set the app up before you travel, since the coupons still help while you are standing in the queue.

First-visit notes for readers who do not read Japanese

Two things make this easy for a reader who cannot read the menu. The menu is published in several languages, and every dish has a calorie and allergen table you can open before you order, including branch-specific sets for Jiyugaoka and Sunset Alley.

If you have an allergy, say so when you order and ask whether the same scoop, the same drizzle and the same jar are used across items. Those are shared service items in a café format, and you are the only person who knows what you cannot eat.

Worth the detour, and when to skip it

Who should go

You will be happy here if you want a dependable sweet matcha drink in the ¥590 to ¥720 range, a real bowl of whisked matcha instead of another milk-based latte, or a tea dessert that costs less than the ¥1,250 parfaits. Families do fine too, since the kids menu is small and the soft ice cream at ¥360 is a reliable hit.

The arithmetic helps when you decide. A full visit runs about ¥1,430 to ¥1,870 per person, a ¥620 latte plus a dessert between ¥810 and ¥1,250. A lighter one, latte plus a ¥150 topping plus a ¥550 tea, comes to ¥1,320. The cheapest way in is a hot tea at ¥550.

Honest downsides, and what to pick instead

The problems are real. There is no Shibuya branch, so a matcha latte in Shibuya turns into a train ride. Every matcha latte is sweetened, and the genuine whisked bowl is hot only. The preset parfaits and the seasonal mont blanc push a single order into the thousands of yen, toppings are charged one by one, the cup size changes from branch to branch, and at the lunch hour you queue like everywhere else in Tokyo.

If you are in Shibuya and want matcha whisked properly with wagashi, stay in the neighbourhood rather than travelling for a café latte. The tea houses around Aoyama and Shibuya do it as a matter of course; their hours and prices are their own business, and they are not part of this chain. If you already know which matcha you like, how to pick matcha and sencha at Ippodo Tea Tokyo Midtown is a different kind of stop, and my Tokyo grocery errands guide covers the other option, making it at home.

Quick answers

Five things to check before you travel:

• Open the page of the branch you plan to visit for that day's hours, since each shop runs its own timetable.
• Take the train. These branches sit in shopping centres and station areas, where parking in Tokyo costs more than the matcha.
• Order at the counter. There is no table booking, so allow for a queue at the lunch hour.
• If you have an allergy, ask staff about shared scoops, drizzles and jars when you order.
• Match the dessert to the season: the autumn limited menu for 2026 runs 1 September to 31 October, and the line-up changes every year.