You will be healed by Japanese sweets! 5 recommended traditional townhouse cafes of Hida Takayama

In the old townscape where Takayama's own traditional townhouses are connected to the house, the cafe that renovates the townhouses is very popular. Let's enjoy the crush of Japanese sweets while being healed by the retro atmosphere!

Retro quaint tickles women's hearts "Cafe Ao"

It is a café that looks like a residence, using some of the traditional wooden house, "Machiya", architecture of Oita Sake Brewery. The atmosphere is different for each corner, and you can enjoy sweets slowly in the shop where Japanese and Western are well balanced. Menus and drinks made carefully, such as sweets using matcha, are popular. There is also a general merchandise corner in one corner of the cafe.

"Matcha parfait" compiled with Japanese ingredients such as matcha agar and hojicha blancmange 1000 yen

"Yukidama Zenzai" 650 yen, which is a perfect match between a paste made of domestic soybeans and a colorful white Shiratama

"Souflor roll" 650 yen sponge is a fluffy dough with matcha; the cream is a refreshing sweetness

◾️ Cafe Ao

Address: 67 Kamisannomachi, Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture, Oita Shuzo
TEL:0577-57-9210
Opening hours: 10-16:30 (LO 17:00)
Closed: Unregular holidays

Tea time with retro feeling "Hida Takayama Saryo Mitsuba"

A café that uses Machiya, which remains at the site of a mansion in the Edo period. You can enjoy a variety of seats, including a private room and a terrace. It is a shop that you want to enjoy in quiet lingering. Creative sweets that stick to matcha are especially recommended! The terrace seating, which offers a view of the courtyard with pine and lanterns, is also lovely.

"Matcha Mont Blanc & Drink Set" with plenty of thick matcha cream ¥ 1480.

There are also "Cafe Latte Art" 600 yen and Matcha taste 700 yen, which can be made pictuires into latte art.

I feel the feeling of a gate that resembles a venerable mansion.

◾️ Hida Takayama Saryo Mitsuba

"Sabou Usagi" that conveys the taste of Shimo-Ninomachi

A cafe run by a couple of shop owners who want them to feel the unusual atmosphere of the neighborhood of Shimoninomachi. The store, which has been renovated from an old private house, has a sitting room, table seats, and cute rabbit Japanese items placed everywhere welcome. The photo is "Yume Usagi Gozen Set" 1100 yen ~. Matcha tiramisu with chiffon cake and a set of drink 1000 yen ~ are also recommended.

◾️ Sabo Usagi

Address: 40 Shimoninomachi, Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture
TEL:0577-57-7476
Opening hours: 10-16:00 (Saturday, Sunday, Holidays-16:30)
Closed: Wednesday, Thursday

Elegant moments while looking at the courtyard "Sabou Fukyuan"

The café is based on a building that uses a roughly 120-year-old mother house and a kura surrounding the courtyard. The motherhouse has a parlor and an oceanside, and you can see the carpentry of the past, such as the work of the transom and alcove, and the beautiful design of the joinery throughout. Sweets made with ingredients such as soy milk and Kuzu starch that are particular about healthiness and domestic production are enriched. It is also nice to relax with chairs while looking at the garden as it is.

"Fukyu parfait" 1890 yen is characterized by a variety of flavors such as Kinako softcream, Warabi Mochi and matcha ice cream.

"Matcha Kuzu Neri" 990 Yen is a Bavaroa-style sweet made by mixing kudzu and matcha.

The entrance that made use of the building of the kimono shop is also lovely.

◾️ Fukyu-an

Address: 17 Shimo-Ichinomachi, Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture
TEL: 0577-34-0126
Opening hours: 11-16:30 (LO)
Closed: Tuesday

The quiet space of the Japanese modern "Kissako Katsute"

A cafe in a space that has been renovated with a modern production added to a 150-year-old townhouse. You can slowly in the kind of serenity separated from the bustling streets. Unique menus such as "Wafu Pafe Amagasane (with Japanese tea)" 1100 yen, which is a large number of materials, are popular.

A white parfait with a motif of late winter in Takayama, "Yukidoke (with Japanese tea)" 950 yen.

"Warabi mochi to Matcha", which are stuck to freshly kneaded, is 1100 yen.

A small-room in a place in the back; the ceiling is blown out and there is a feeling of liberation.

◾️ Kissako Katsute

Address: 92 Kamisannomachi, Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture
TEL: 0577-34-1511
Opening hours: 10-17
Closed: Thursday (unscheduled)

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