Cafe Arles

The retro furniture betrays this quirky coffee shop’s ’70s origins. Cafe Arles sits just far enough from the central Shinjuku to be spared a constant influx of shoppers, meaning that you can spend a few hours nursing a single cup of coffee and flicking through the shop's library of manga and photo albums – or playing with their aged cat – without being hassled to move on. During the daytime, Arles serves up reasonably priced lunch sets of pseudo-Western dishes such as omurice and napolitan pasta.