Cafe Tokiona

If you are looking for RETRO, look no further, Cafe Tokiona has got you covered.

Located between Minamimorimachi and Tenmabashi station, in the retro neighborhood near Second Banana another retro cafe from a previous post and on a 3 minute walk from Nakanoshima river and Minamitenma Park is ‘Cafe Tokiona’, a very cozy, retro cafe that serves a great breakfast for a surprisingly low price.

Tokiona is Basque for ‘a pleasant place, a place where sweets lovers gather’.

The moment you set foot inside this cafe you feel you jumped back in time to America in the 70’s. Tokiona has a lovely retro interior that sports vintage wallpaper, retro furniture and some lovely tile-work at the counter.

Tokiona is quite a spacious cafe that has three 4-person-tables near the windows, four 2-person-tables in the middle of the cafe. All with wooden diningchairs. In the back of the cafe are two livingroom tables with the more comfortable fabric living room chairs and sofas that together with the retro decoration feel like a 70’s livingroom.

The cafe’s menu is separated in breakfast and lunch with breakfast mainly consisting of toasts with diverse toppings. Lunch has curry, burger, spaghetti and various sweets.

Tokiona is extremely popular so it’s recommended to come early.