Honey Coffee is a cafe in Hakata, Fukuoka.
Honey Coffee's Hakata cafe is the home counter of Hidenori Izaki, the 2014 World Barista Champion. Quiet street, careful brews, beans by the bag for retail.
Tip: Twenty minutes from Hakata Station by bus. Worth the diversion for a single hand-drip.
Address: Hakata-ku, Fukuoka 812-0893, Japan
Tokado opened 2008. Naoki Goto won the World Coffee Roasting Championship in 2013 from this counter. The Hakata Riverain branch sits below the museum.
Signature drink: Roasting championship blend
Tip: Five minutes from Nakasu-Kawabata Station. Beans by the bag plus a small espresso bar.
REC Coffee's Hakata Station branch sits on the 6F of Marui inside KITTE Hakata, with window seats over the station square. Order the specialty espresso.
Signature drink: Specialty espresso
Tip: One minute from Hakata Station via KITTE. Faster turnover than the Shirogane room.
Tokado opened 2008. Naoki Goto won the World Coffee Roasting Championship in 2013 from this counter. The Hakata Riverain branch sits below the museum.
Signature drink: Roasting championship blend
Tip: Five minutes from Nakasu-Kawabata Station. Beans by the bag plus a small espresso bar.
Manly Coffee opened 2008 in Hirao and was an early vanguard for female-led roasting in Japan. Beans roasted in-house, hand-drip only across a small counter.
Signature drink: Hand-drip single-origin
Tip: Ten minutes from Yakuin Station. Counter seats fill from late morning.
Manu Coffee's Daimyo branch runs late: open until 1am most days, with the same single-origin roaster's coffee that anchors the brand's Yakuin Kujira flagship.
Signature drink: Single-origin pour-over
Tip: Five-minute walk from Tenjin Station. Tables outside in spring and autumn.
REC Coffee's Hakata Station branch sits on the 6F of Marui inside KITTE Hakata, with window seats over the station square. Order the specialty espresso.
Signature drink: Specialty espresso
Tip: One minute from Hakata Station via KITTE. Faster turnover than the Shirogane room.
Toffee combines soymilk and tofu from local Mihara Tofu-Ten with espresso. Five minutes from Tenjin Station. The tofu pudding is the most-ordered sweet.
Signature drink: Tofu latte, soymilk coffee
Tip: Five minutes from Tenjin Station. The tofu pudding is the most-ordered sweet.
Amam Dacotan's Ropponmatsu flagship is bakery first, cafe second. The sister blue-building eating area runs coffee with the maritozzo and mentaiko baguettes.
Signature drink: Coffee with maritozzo or mentaiko baguette
Tip: Five-minute walk from Ropponmatsu Station. The seven-person inside limit means a queue most weekends.
