Pain Maison Ginza: 120 Yen Salt Bread, Menu & Booking
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Pain Maison Ginza is known as the original salt bread in Tokyo, and between the 120 yen salt bread and the online waiting list it stays busy. Menu prices, how to book with AirWAIT, queueing tips and the Asakusa and Shinjuku branches, all in one place.
"I wanted to make bread anyone could enjoy, even in the height of summer." Pain Maison (パン・メゾン), known as the original Japanese salt bread, started from that thought. Pain is French for bread and maison means house. Shiopan (塩パン) is Japanese for salt bread.
Pain Maison Ginza: Hours and Getting There
| Name | Shiopan-ya Pain Maison Ginza (塩パン屋 パン・メゾン 銀座店) |
| Rating | Google 4.4 (2,484) / Tabelog 3.64 |
| Hours | Daily 08:30 - 19:00 |
| Closed | Tuesdays |
| Seating | None (takeout only) |
| Payment | Credit cards accepted |
| Address | 2-14-5 Ginza, Chuo City, Tokyo, Dai-27 Chuo Building 1F 📍 Open in Google Maps |
| Access | 🚇 Higashi-ginza Station (Hibiya Line) exit A7, 3 min walk 🚇 Ginza Station (Tokyo Metro) exit A13, 5 min walk 🚇 Shintomicho Station (Yurakucho Line) exit 1, 3 min walk |
| Online waiting list | ➡️ AirWAIT waiting list (English available) |
| Other Tokyo branches | Pain Maison Sumida Asakusa-dori 📍 Google Maps Pain Maison Shinjuku 📍 Google Maps |
Pain Maison Ginza: Online Booking and the Waiting List
The Ginza shop is small and the queue is usually long, but since 25 April 2024 there has been an online waiting list (AirWAIT), so you don't have to stand outside the shop. Registration opens at 8am every morning.
How to book
1. Scan the QR code in front of the shop, or open the booking system below.
➡️ AirWAIT waiting list (English available)
⚠️ Online booking works for the Ginza shop only. Asakusa and Shinjuku are walk-in queues.
2. Tap the waiting list button (順番待ち受付をする) and register your place in line.
3. Register an email address or LINE account so you can be notified when you're called.
4. When the call comes, head to the shop and go in.
⛔ Waiting around the shop is not allowed, so once you've booked, walk around Ginza and come back when the notification arrives.
Pain Maison Menu: Five Salt Breads and Prices
Pain Maison's signature is the original salt bread. Crisp outside, chewy inside, with a crunchy base that still carries the smell of butter. Coarse rock salt on top makes it simple but not something you tire of.
1. Salt bread (塩パン) 120 yen
Butter worked generously into a special soft French dough, coarse rock salt sprinkled on top and baked. Simple, and the one you keep coming back to.
2. Salt melon bread (塩メロンパン) 190 yen
Salt bread baked with a crisp melon bread crust on top. The sweet and salty combination is addictive.
3. Salt bread sandwich, ham and egg (塩パンサンド ハムたまご) 190 yen
Ham and egg salad in the salt bread, good as a light meal.
4. Premium an-butter (塩パンサンドプレミアム あんバター) 240 yen
Made with high-grade butter and smooth, good-quality red bean paste. A classic premium dessert bread.
5. Mini shokupan (ミニ食パン) 220 yen
A mini-size plain loaf made from the salt bread dough, soft and chewy.
Pain Maison Other Branches: Asakusa and Shinjuku
Pain Maison started in 2003 at the head store in Yawatahama, Ehime Prefecture, and is the original salt bread specialist in Japan. In Tokyo, besides Ginza, you'll find it at the Sumida Asakusa-dori and Shinjuku branches.
1. Pain Maison Sumida Asakusa-dori
| Hours | Daily 08:30 - 19:00 |
| Closed | Tuesdays |
| Address | 2-4-1 Azumabashi, Sumida City, Tokyo, Sank Etoile 1F 📍 Open in Google Maps |
| Access | 🚇 Honjo-azumabashi Station (Toei Asakusa Line) exit A3, 1 min walk 🚇 Asakusa Station (Ginza Line) exit 5, 5 min walk |
| Online waiting list | None |
2. Pain Maison Shinjuku (opened 10 June 2025)
| Hours | Daily 08:30 - 19:00 |
| Closed | Wednesdays (different from the other branches) |
| Address | 5-11-23 Shinjuku, Shinjuku City, Tokyo, KT Shinjuku Sanbangai 1F 📍 Open in Google Maps |
| Access | 🚇 Shinjuku-sanchome Station (Marunouchi Line) exits C7 and E1, 4 min walk 🚇 Connected underground to JR Shinjuku and Seibu-Shinjuku Stations 🚇 Higashi-shinjuku Station (Fukutoshin Line) exit A3, 8 min walk |
| Online waiting list | None |
Where is the Pain Maison head store?
| Name | Pain Maison Yawatahama head store (パン・メゾン八幡浜本店) |
| Hours | Daily 06:30 - 18:00 |
| Closed | Tuesdays |
| Address | 1-8-15 Kitahama, Yawatahama, Ehime Prefecture 📍 Open in Google Maps |
| Online waiting list | None |
Pain Maison Ginza is close to Higashi-ginza and Ginza Stations, which makes it easy to drop into while shopping or walking around Ginza. Picking up salt bread straight out of the oven is a good way to start a day in Ginza, and the AirWAIT online waiting list takes some of the sting out of the queue. Start your Ginza walk with a bite of warm salt bread. There's plenty else worth a stop in Ginza too.
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