Tokyo Date Drinks When Neither of You Drinks Alcohol

Café 1894 is a museum café in the recreated banking hall of the 1894 Mitsubishi Ichigokan, and its drink menu has a Twist Mocktail section with four named drinks: Virgin sangria (¥900), Tea negroni (¥1,000), Poire veil (¥1,000) and Zero-penicillin smoked tea (¥900). It also lists alcohol-free beer (¥800) and white tea sparkling (¥850), and prices include tax. It is open 11:00–23:00. For the café only, use the entrance on the outer side of the building, up the stairs marked by a small brown "Open" sign, not the museum's courtyard entrance.

Tohaku Cha-kan is a tea café in Okyokan, a teahouse built in 1742 in the Japanese garden of the Tokyo National Museum. The Matcha (hot or iced) & Wagashi Set is ¥2,000, the Seasonal Obanzai Set with matcha and wagashi is ¥2,800, and Homemade Kintsuba with chilled gyokuro or chilled roasted green tea is ¥1,680. Prices include tax and service. It is open 10:00–16:30, closed Mondays (Tuesdays if Monday is a national holiday), and entering takes museum admission: ¥1,000 for adults.

HIGASHIYA GINZA is a tea salon of about 40 seats with dozens of Japanese teas, from sencha and bancha (from ¥1,980) to gyokuro (from ¥3,520), plus original blended teas (from ¥2,090). The seasonal tea-and-wagashi set is ¥2,200, and the five-tea tasting with bite-size sweets is ¥5,500. The tea room's last order is 18:00, ahead of its 19:00 close. The salon asks guests not to take photos or use laptops or tablets, and to skip strong perfume; it asks that children 12 and under not use the tea room.

Sakurai's tea room, on the fifth floor of Spiral, has an eight-seat counter. By day, the Tea Course (gyokuro, blended tea, roasted tea, matcha and Japanese sweets) is from ¥5,950, and Tea and Japanese sweets, where you choose a tea and get up to three cups, is from ¥2,500. On weekdays the tea room stays open until 23:00, and from 19:00 to 23:00 the Tea Course in the Night is ¥5,000, tax included, with tea soda, blended tea, matcha, hojicha and wagashi; the reservation page welcomes visits for tea only. After 19:00 on weekdays a ¥500 cover charge per person applies. Book online for up to four people; seats are 90 minutes and each guest orders at least one drink. Guests wearing strong perfume may be turned away.

Hinokizaka, the Japanese restaurant at The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo in Tokyo Midtown, serves its Teppanyaki Afternoon Tea on Sundays only, from 2 p.m., for ¥13,500. Reservation is required. Premium teas are paired with the courses, and the menu lists seven: Aged Green Tea, Gyokuro Herbal Tea, Hop Tea, Barrel-Aged Black Tea, Chrysanthemum Tea, Deep-roasted Tea and Organic Sencha. The dress code is smart casual. Of the daytime prices listed here, ¥13,500 is the highest.

Tea Bar Chokeikyo is in the basement of Hillside Terrace in Daikanyama. Its tea course is ¥5,800: gyokuro, blended tea, fermented tea and spiced matcha. A separate ¥7,000 course pairs tea with alcohol, so book the tea course. It is open 11:00–22:00 Thursday–Saturday and 11:00–18:00 Sunday–Tuesday and public holidays, and closed Wednesday, so go Thursday–Saturday for an evening. Entering from 19:00 carries a ¥500 charge. Book online for up to four people; seats are 90 minutes and each guest orders at least one drink.

The Rooftop Bar is on the 52nd floor of Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills, with terrace seats, counter seats and a sofa area. Its two Seasonal Mocktails are Tiramisu Figtini (fig leaf tea syrup, oolong tea, espresso, apple juice and cacao vinegar) and Sacred Pear (lime leaf syrup, orchid syrup, tonic water and Japanese pear), each ¥2,200, against ¥900–1,000 for a mocktail at Café 1894. Asahi Dry Zero, Katsunuma Non Alcohol Wine and Yuzu Sparkling are ¥1,430 each. It opens at 17:00. From March to December, a ¥2,200 per person seating charge, tax included, applies to terrace seats after 20:00, and none applies from 17:00 to 20:00. Smoking is permitted at the terrace seats and not inside the bar or at the bar counter. Reservations are by phone only: 03-6830-7739.

Florilège is a French restaurant on the second floor of Garden Plaza D at Azabudai Hills, where guests share one communal table about 13 meters long and the courses put vegetables first. At dinner, the tasting menu is ¥24,000 and the Non-alcoholic Pairing is ¥10,000, tax included, with a 10% service fee added. The alcoholic pairing is ¥14,000. Dinner takes about three hours. Dinner is not served on Sundays, and the restaurant is closed all Monday. Book online: seats are released at 0:00 JST each day for up to one month ahead, for parties of up to four, junior high school age and older.