Visiting The Legend of the Galactic Heroes Cafe in Tokyo.

We were lucky enough to visit Dining Cafe Iserlohn Fortress in Ueno, Tokyo. LOGH easily ranks among my favourite anime of all time so we took the opportunity to document everything for posterity when it’s no longer around!

▼ Starting from the outside, this is the exterior located about a 7 minute walk from Ueno station. LOGH Cafe Exterior

Staircase Sign LOGH ▲ The cafe itself is up on the second floor.

We had reservations we booked online. We were a bit early so we had to wait in the stairwell.

As soon as you enter, you are greeted by 2 walls of merchandise, which I was pretty stoked about. You could buy ceramic flagships to serve food in, but they were crazy expensive. More on those later!

The other merch wall, with standees, canvas prints, books and t-shirts.

We were sitting in this half of the cafe. Of the 20 to 25 customers during the 2 hours we were there, there was a total of only 2 men, including myself. Iserlohn Fortress had a lot of lady patrons spanning a a wide age range. A highlight was watching one lady in her 20s receiving a coaster with Kircheis on it and patting her heart. What a time to be alive.

You could sit in this chair and command the Imperial Fleet. Despite the Die Neue These design on the Siegfried standee, most of the cafe was based on the OVA series.

Wall with war tactics books, animation cels and a screen playing clips from the OVAs, movies and new show.

Cool art on the wall.

Art wall continues…

Study the map of galaxy mural over drinks.

The bar & kitchen area.

Production sketches maybe?

Animation cels

The menu shows that you get a random coaster which each drink order.

The aforementioned ceramic Brünhild and Hyperion. Each has their own meal that comes served in it.

▲ English menu, worth a read!

▲ Upon your first visit you are asked to choose a side in the war, given a rank and are presented with a coin for that side. I picked the Empire and got this.

▲ My wife picked the Free Planets alliance so we could have both.

I went with the ceramic Hyperion meal.

Unveiling the Hyperion’s delicious contents.

If you ordered a ¥2500 beer you could keep the Cafe Iserlohn glass. I was all in for this.

THOR’S HAMMER! Complete with routine and fire. What more can you ask for?

▲ My fleet (of fish) didn’t stand a chance!

This was “The Oberstein“. The dry ice represents his cool demeanor according to the menu.

The Oberstein had some kinda jelly in it.

“The Murai” which was smoky and had a spicy taste (which according to the menu was just like complaining!)

The Kircheis was a peach cocktail served in highball to represent his height.

We did pretty good collecting coasters. The one other dude at the cafe gave us a couple. He seemed interested that we were fans. They probably don’t get a lot of Canadians speaking broken Japanese in there? He told us he went often and had a high ranking (your rank increases with each visit, BTW)

These plates weren’t for sale as best I could tell, but they were on the wall next to us. Who wouldn’t want a commemorative grandma plate with Wolfgang Mittermeyer on it though?!

This was the back of the cafe. It looks like a wine cellar wall but it really houses the washrooms which was cool.

Hidden washrooms. More awesome than practical which we approved of.

Cast and production team signatures.

Ads for the new Die Neue These series just in case you stumbled into in a Legend of The Galactic Heroes themed cafe and weren’t aware there was a new show I guess?

I bought the canvas prints of Reinhard von Lohengramm and Yang Wenli. They had other characters but at ¥3500 each I thought the two big guns would do.

Picked up this book as, “The Complete Guide“. Also ¥3500.

There was a Gachapon machine that had random pins in it. It only took ¥500 yen coins so I only gave it one go and coincidentally got an Iserlohn Fleet pin.

The glass made it back to Canada safely in it’s box. (They give you a new glass, not the dirty glass you drank out of!)

I’m really glad we had the chance to visit. I thought it was only supposed to be open for a year when it first opened in early 2018. They gave us some pamphlet I believe indicated something else was replacing it in the Fall, but I could be mistaken again on that too. If you’re a fan and are n Tokyo, definitely check it out if you can. We had a reservation, but it wasn’t packed and I’m sure most nights you could get a seat without one.