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3 Must-Visit Café Where You Can Enjoy Unique and Insta-worthy Sweets Within a Reach of 5-Minute Walk from Fukui Station

su_muのチーズケーキ・スペキュロス(cheesecake speculoos offered by su_mu)

Fukui Station works as a transit hub of whole Fukui Prefecture and is well known as a train station at which dinosaur statues are places. In the neighborhood of the station, you can find popular touristic sites as Fukui Castle Ruins (福井城址) and Yokokan Garden (養浩館庭園). In this issue, let us introduce three cafes you can relax and enjoy some sweets between touristic site visits. Each café is so unique and offers irresistible treats. 

Japanese tea café “Saraku Kaguya”, produced by a long-establishment tea maker; Enjoy matcha prepared in front of you together with its signature ‘Matcha Cream Anmitsu’

A café specializing on Japanese tea, “Saraku Kaguya” (茶楽 かぐや), is produced by a Japanese tea maker ‘ Horikawa Seicha’ (堀川製茶) in Arawa area which has been producing Japanese tea since 1800s. At this café, you can enjoy Japanese sweets and Japanese tea in calm Japanese modern atmosphere. Its signature menu is ‘Match Cream Anmitsu’ (抹茶クリームあんみつ) made with home grinded match harvested in Uji, Kyoto. You’ll find rich flavored matcha ice cream, agar jelly in twin colors, red bean jam made from red beans from Tokachi, Hokkaido, and sticky rounded cakes decorated in a bowl. Don’t forget to pour the elegantly bitter matcha syrup on top of it before enjoying it. Though you can choose your tea to enjoy with ‘Match Cream Anmitsu’ from six choices such as roasted tea (ほうじ茶) and gyokuro tea (玉露) and others, our recommendation is matcha the cafe will prepare in front of you.

Opening Hours<Seibu Fukui Outlet>10:00AM – 7:30PM
Address3rd floor, Seibu Department Store Fukui, 1-8-1 Chuo, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture
アクセスA 5-minute walk from Fukui Station
URLhttp://saraku-kaguya.net

Excited at the beautiful presentation of pancake decorated by nest honey and fresh fruits; “Fluffy Pancake” literally offers you fluffy pancakes melted in your mouth

フラッフィー パンケーキの巣蜜のパンケーキ(Sumitsu no Pancake offered by Fluffy Pancake)
Photo by @hkcrkt

Once you walk into “Fluffy Pancake” (フラッフィー パンケーキ) in Aossa Mall (アオッサモール), the natural tasted interior in which wood and plants are harmonized will welcomes you.  At this café, you can enjoy the fluffy pancakes which give you very unique texture of melting in your mouth as if you eat snow. In order to create the richness of egg, they use special eggs laid by hens raised with organic feeds. And they add the yolk of this special eggs into the merengue for making fluffy texture. Your must-try menu is ‘Nest Honey Pancake’ (巣蜜のパンケーキ) among a variety of pancakes menus offered. Its signature fluffy pancake is offered together with smooth whipped butter, fresh fruits, and of course, nest honey. Saltiness of whipped butter even enhances the sweetness of nest honey.

Opening Hours11:00AM – 6:00PM
Address3rd floor, Aossa Mall, 1-4-1 Teyose, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture
アクセスA 1-minute walk from Fukui Station
URLhttps://tabelog.com/en/fukui/A1801/A180101/18007459/

Regardless of the time of day you visit, café “su_mu” accommodates you with its rich variety of menu, however, try ‘Cheese Cake Spéculoos’ with hand dripped coffee

“su_mu” is a café with a high ceiling creating openness in which you can truly make yourself at home. Since the café offers you a rich menu, it can accommodate you any time of a day. Though its signature is ‘egg benedict’, it is also known as a café where you can enjoy sweets as well. Among a variety of sweets menu, ‘Cheese Cake Spéculoos’ has always been loved the most. You will definitely be surprised at the richness of cheese and its smooth texture. In addition, its presentation is so cute and you will want to take a photo of it. Don’t forget to try its hand dripped coffee as we guarantee that its hand dripped coffee goes the best with ‘Cheese Cake Spéculoos’.

Opening Hours8:00AM – 6:00PM / 8:00AM – 10:00PM on Saturday / Closed on Tuesday
住所1-10-22 Chuo, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture
アクセスA 3-minute walk from Fukui Station
URLhttps://www.sumu-fukuiekimae.com

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