

1F, Chuo City, Tokyo
Age 3 is a popular café in Japan that is specializing in fried sandwiches. It’s basically a crispy French toast with soft cream inside.
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Went on a weekday afternoon and there was a long queue. It took us more than 30 minutes to reach the counter to order and 45 minutes to get our food. Tried the egg salad which was not overly seasoned with mayo and there was a packet of sauce that came with it which give a a slight savory flavor. If you do a good review, you can get a free cream sandwich. The cream was light and milk flavoured, you wouldn’t feel that it’s too heavy to finish. The sandwich are freshly fried and it was crispy which went well with the ingredients. If it wasn’t for that long wait, I would give this a 5 star.
We came at 10.45am and there were about 20+ people infront of us. They had a staff guiding the queue when it started to form even before the store opened which was great. The original one is pretty oily and you can taste the grease in the bread and there’s no flavour to cover it up but the banana brûlée seasonal menu and it was pretty good! The matcha one is not sweet like a bitter matcha with chocolate truffles on top of it. The pistachio with strawberry has pistachio cream but it’s not super flavourful ~ cant taste the pistachio in the cream, mainly just the strawberry jam 😅
You get a free whipped cream sandwich when you write a review. Long line - but I will update with full thoughts. Update: Waited about 30 minutes. Got one crème brûlée, one short rib, and one classic whipped cream. They were all delicious. The crème brûlée and beef short rib could be a little bit of a mess but the whipped cream held its shape pretty well. The staff was very friendly and polite. I’m not sure I would wait longer than 30 minutes but I really enjoyed it and do recommend it!
Omg dont even talk about it. You cant miss this thing when you come to Tokyo, to be honest. I went by myself and was in line for 30 mins in -1 degree but it absolutely worth it! The original one, whipped cream was sooooo good (I thought it was 100 yen but it s fine). The bread was very crispy and the whipped was not thay sweet and so light. My fav was creme brulee, seriously stil thinking about it hahaha for the food bread, i ordered creamy beef stew (not sure exact name of the item) it was also good. My tip for you is bring friends so you can order many of them and eat them right away as they cannot be kept longer than an hour I think.
Some desserts make you detour. This one made us march twenty minutes through Ginza, in the cold, questioning our life choices — which, in hindsight, was exactly the correct decision. We arrived at 6:00 p.m. and, after a respectful but relentless wait, were finally rewarded at 6:30 with our crunchy-yet-soft, cream-filled slits of fried bread — proof that patience is sometimes edible. We tried both the crème brûlée and pistachio cream pastries, and they deserved their own moment. The crème brûlée was genuinely excellent — perfectly brûléed, not bitter or overly burnt. The custard itself was light and fluffy, not over-whipped, sweet without being cloying, and surprisingly delicate. This wasn’t novelty food pretending to be dessert; this was someone who knew exactly what they were doing. As we waited in the bitter Tokyo cold, I watched other patrons attack their cream sandwiches with reckless optimism — toppings spilling over, cream tumbling to the ground in slow, tragic motion. I observed disappointment and grief quietly settle into their souls. Learning from their mistakes, I immediately secured spoons for our freshly fried, cream-filled pillows of joy, treating them with the respect such creations demand. The pistachio version delivered in a different way: crunchy, nutty, and balanced, finished with a drizzle of strawberry jam that added just enough brightness without stealing the spotlight. Messy? Yes. Worth it? Absolutely. The fried bread itself was crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. How the chef decided to cut a slit and fill it with pillowy cream is beyond my comprehension, but I respect the audacity. After about three-quarters of the pastry, the bread did become greasy, leaving an oily residue on the fingertips — the only unfortunate note in an otherwise outstanding dessert experience. The ambience, however, was a little shy of tragic. The storefront was extremely small, the lineup respectfully long, and while the Tokyo temperature hovered at only –1°C, it was bone-chilling, gut-crunching cold. To complete the absurdity, a dog spa sat directly beside the shop, with signs plastered everywhere warning patrons not to eat in front of the store lest a dog snatch your precious morsel. Thankfully, we arrived in the evening — no dogs were present, and our pastries survived unscathed. Would I do the twenty-minute Ginza trek again, brave the cold, the line, and the looming threat of canine theft? Without hesitation. Possibly faster next time.
The Internet has not lied... This place is Soo amazing! We tried 6 different types and all of them are amazing in different ways! The lightest but still amazing is the standard whipped cream. In total we tried the whipped cream, creme brulee, hot cheesy Curry, regular Curry, ganache, Short rib. My two favorites are the whipped cream and the hot curry! The spice is just perfect! The staff was so friendly and helpful, English is flawless as well just in case your lacking Japanese.