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AIN SOPH.'s flagship spreads across four Ginza floors, where a ground-floor patisserie of vegan pudding gives way to refined plant-based courses upstairs.
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Vegan
私はヴィーガンです。肉・魚・卵・乳製品は食べられません。
Watashi wa vīgan desu. Niku, sakana, tamago, nyūseihin wa taberaremasen.
I'm vegan. I can't eat meat, fish, eggs or dairy.
- 出汁に魚やかつおは使っていますか？Is there fish or bonito in the dashi (stock)?
- 野菜だけで作れますか？Could you make it with vegetables only?
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Details
- Address
- 4-12-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061
- Nearest station
- Higashi-ginza Stn
- Cuisine
- Vegan / plant-based
- Price
- ¥¥¥
- English menu / support
- ✓
- Signature
- Vegan pudding & seasonal vegetable course
AIN SOPH. Ginza is the founding flagship of Japan's best-known 100%-plant-based restaurant group, spread across four floors a one-minute walk from Higashi-Ginza Station.
The ground floor runs as its own patisserie — pudding, raisin-butter sandwiches, baked cookies — while the second through fourth floors hold the full restaurant, a bright room with big street-facing windows and climbing plants at the entrance that reads more like a Brooklyn organic café than a Ginza dining room. What most people come for is the Heavenly Vegan Pancake, a souffle-style stack now made with Mizuhochikara, a rice flour bred specifically for baking, so it keeps its egg-free, dairy-free lightness; it arrives with ice cream, cream, and syrup served on the side so you can set the sweetness yourself, sold either à la carte or as the centerpiece of a 4,980-yen course. Ginza also has one dish the other AIN SOPH. locations don't: the Fukurokuju Bento (3,900 yen), a lacquered box of brown rice, tofu "Spanish omelette," fried vegan chicken, spinach curry, and a seasonal salad with bagna cauda — a good order if you want range on one tray. An Oriental Vegan option, made without onion, garlic, or other pungent roots, is available on request.
One nuance worth flagging if you're gluten-free rather than just avoiding meat: the kitchen isn't certified gluten-free and preps wheat and non-wheat dishes in the same shared space, so trace cross-contact is possible. Staff field this question often and manage in basic English, but ask directly if the risk level matters to you.
Reserve ahead for dinner and weekends — booking is instant online, no phone call needed — though walk-ins are taken when there's room. It's open daily 11:30am–3pm and 5–9pm, last order 8pm, and takes credit cards, IC cards, and PayPay alongside cash.
Last verified Jul 2026
Hours and details can change — please confirm before you visit.
