PRONTO Kayabacho: Menu, Prices, Review

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プロント 茅場町店（KYOE PLAZA 1F・2F）／2026年11月13日の記録

I stopped in on Friday 13 November 2026, photographed the door sign, both floors, the menus and the cases, and ordered a pot of tea. Every price below is read from the menu boards in those photographs.

A chain café that is also a café-bar, with 74 seats over two floors, free Wi-Fi and a power icon on the door. PRONTO is the chain that serves coffee by day and drinks by night, and this shop on the Kayabacho corner is open from 6:45 in the morning on weekdays. I went in for a pot of caffeine-free tea and came out with the menus on camera. Here is what the shop offers and what it costs.

What is PRONTO, and which shop is this?

PRONTO is a Japanese café chain with a coffee-and-pasta menu by day and a bar menu in the evening. This is the Kayabacho shop, on floors 1F and 2F of KYOE PLAZA at Nihonbashi-Kayabacho 1-11-2, Chuo-ku. The sign is the white letters PRONTO with a yellow sun-and-moon mark, over a dark glass front. Outside the door there are two stand-up menu boards, one for pasta and one for drinks, and banners for the seasonal drinks and pasta.

The shopfront. The menu boards by the door are the quickest way to check prices before you go in

How much does it cost?

Coffee starts at ¥360 for a regular, fresh pasta at ¥800–980, and a slice of cake is ¥540, all before tax. The board prints the price without tax in large figures and the eat-in price with tax in brackets. As I read the small print at the bottom of the board, the brackets are the eat-in price and the takeout price is different, so check the till if you take a drink away.

The drinks board lists each price as R (regular) and L (large). Printed price, then the eat-in price with tax in brackets:

The drinks board. A notice above it says that when the shop is busy, iced drinks are served in takeout cups, and you can ask for a shop glass instead

What food is there?

Pasta is the main food: ten pasta dishes, from ¥800 to ¥980 before tax, plus two salads at ¥850, and a bakery rack and cake case by the counter. The pasta board splits the dishes into fresh pasta, described as chewy with whole-grain flour, and spaghetti cooked al dente. The seasonal pasta at the top of the board that day was a rich porcini cream fresh pasta with three kinds of mushrooms, ¥980 (¥1,078 with tax).

The pasta board: ten dishes numbered 01–10 and, bottom left, two salads at ¥850 (¥935)

The bakery rack was half empty when I photographed it. The price cards I could read: hot dog ¥350 (385), sausage roll ¥380 (418), sausage egg muffin ¥350 (385), meat pie ¥350 (385), canelé ¥350 (385), a croissant ¥250 (275), and a half-size asagopan sandwich at ¥210 (231) each, or two for ¥350 (385). The case beside the register had cakes at ¥540 (594) — a brulée in baumkuchen, a salted caramel mont blanc and a strawberry milk chiffon cake — and two croissant sandwiches, egg and bacon, and tuna and cheddar, at ¥500 (550).

The bakery rack, mostly empty on the racks at the back

The cake case. The cards carry a "drink set" label; I did not photograph what the set costs, so I can't give you that price

What did I order?

A pot of Green Rooibos Fruit Tea, hot, ¥490 (¥539 with tax). The board marks it caffeine-free. It arrives on a grey tray as a white lidded pot with a PRONTO mug beside it and a small white dish, with the tea-bag tag hanging from the pot handle.

The pot, the mug and the small dish on the tray, at the window counter on the second floor

I have not written about the taste. I did not take notes on it, and I would rather leave it out than invent it.

What's it like inside? How many seats?

34 seats on the first floor and 40 on the second, per the sign on the door. The first floor is a low room with brick walls, hanging lamps and dark leather benches, with tables for two to four people and a table-side counter near the middle. The second floor has a long black counter along the street windows, high-backed leather stools at the counter and square tables by the window.

The first floor, seen from the entrance, with several people working on laptops

The second-floor counter, facing the street

Is there Wi-Fi and power? Where can you smoke?

Yes to Wi-Fi and power, per the icons on the door: the sign shows FREE Wi-Fi and a CHARGE icon. It also lists a designated seating area for heated tobacco, and a designated smoking booth, and the three payment icons at the bottom: IC card, QR code and credit card. I did not measure the Wi-Fi speed, I did not photograph the network name, and I did not count outlets or check where they are.

The sign on the door. Seats, tobacco, power, Wi-Fi and payment, on one card

Smoking is where the shop is unusual for a chain café:

• First floor: a heated-tobacco room, marked by a sticker on the door.
• Second floor: a sign reads SMOKING AREA 2F. Electronic cigarettes can be used while seated. Paper cigarettes go in the smoking booth, in the dedicated space at the back right.
• The same sign shows the restroom is on the second floor.

The smoking sign on the second floor, with the restroom icon at the bottom

If you don't smoke, the sign doesn't say which seats are the non-smoking ones. Ask staff or look at the signs when you go up.

What's the catch?

Know before you go: the price on the board is before tax, a morning rush is likely, and the smoking rooms mean some smell travels. The large figure on every board is the price without tax. The bracketed figure is the eat-in price with 10% tax, and takeout is priced differently. The shop is in an office area and opens at 6:45 on weekdays, and the first floor I photographed was full of people with laptops. I haven't seen it at other times of day, so I can't tell you when it is quiet.

When is it open?

Weekdays the café is open 6:45–17:00 and the café-bar runs 17:30–23:00. On Saturdays and Sundays it is open 11:30–17:00. The morning menu runs until 10:30. These hours are from the official shop page. I did not photograph a sign with hours at the shop.

Where exactly is it?

Kyoe Plaza, floors 1F and 2F, Nihonbashi-Kayabacho 1-11-2, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. It is 30 seconds from exit 3 of Kayabacho Station, which is served by the Tokyo Metro Tozai and Hibiya lines. Telephone 03-5614-2566.

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How does it compare with Ueshima Coffee?

PRONTO is cheaper for a plain coffee and has pasta and a bar menu; Ueshima is the one I measured for work. I photographed both on consecutive days. Ueshima's hot regular coffee is ¥620 on its board; PRONTO's is ¥360 before tax and ¥396 for eat-in, as printed on its board. I measured the Wi-Fi at Ueshima and counted its outlets, and I did neither here, so for a working session with a confirmed result, read Ueshima Coffee, Kyobashi. For a pasta lunch or a drink after 17:30, PRONTO is the one with a menu for it.

All the shops I have photographed are listed on Where should you eat in Akihabara?

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Sources and honesty note

Every price in this article is read from the menu boards, price cards and case cards in my own photographs, taken on 13 November 2026. The prices are the printed ones without tax; the bracketed figures are the eat-in prices with tax as printed on the boards. The seats, Wi-Fi, charging, smoking and payment information come from the sign on the door and the signs inside. The address, the hours, the telephone number and the walking time from exit 3 come from the shop's official page, checked on 13 November 2026.

I drank one pot of tea on this visit. I have described what I photographed rather than reviewing flavours, and no ratings are quoted. Not confirmed, and not guessed: the Wi-Fi speed and network name, where the outlets are, which brands of card work, the price of a drink set, when the shop is quiet, the takeout prices, and the weekend and holiday morning menu. The seasonal items on the boards will change with the season.

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About the author. I am Yuuki, a local guide based in Akihabara. I run private tours in English, tailor-made for one group at a time, and I find places like this one by walking the neighbourhoods myself. I have also watched over 1,500 anime series, which is either a qualification or a warning depending on your point of view.