14 editor picks in Hiroshima.
14 cafe places in Hiroshima we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Hiroshima | Cafe across every city.
Obscura Coffee Roasters pours in Fukuromachi, the sit-in Hiroshima counter of a specialty roasting brand that three Hiroshima men built up in Tokyo.
TipTakeaway drip is the cheap way in and the counter discounts a refill against your receipt, which makes this the easiest good coffee near Peace Memorial Park.
Hachidorisha is a social book cafe near Dohashi in Hiroshima, built around peace-education titles, filter coffee and one long shared reading table.
TipThe shop opens from 11:00 on any date containing a six, a nod to the sixth of August, and otherwise from mid-afternoon.
Kiki Coffee is a small Otemachi stand in Hiroshima pouring Issou Coffee Roastery beans alongside scones and Onomichi bean-to-bar chocolate bars.
TipClosed Mondays and Thursdays, and the room is two short counters and one shared table, so mid-afternoon is the realistic window.
Rue Brazil has poured the morning set in Hiroshima since the postwar years, opening at 07:00 with bread, a boiled egg, salad and a cup of coffee.
TipMorning sets run from 07:00 to 10:30 only; after that the room switches to sandwiches, curry rice and buttered toast.
Kissa Saeki is the Kamiyacho coffee house in Hiroshima that rebuilt itself around organic and additive-free cooking, with a mostly vegan menu.
TipThe vegan salad set is served only between 10:00 and 11:00, so a late breakfast is the way to catch it.
Akam Coffee Works roasts African, Central American and Asian lots in Kokutaiji-machi, a small Hiroshima counter that also sells green beans.
TipGreen coffee and one-kilo wholesale bags are sold alongside the retail beans, which is unusual for a shop this size.
Rue Brazil in Hiroshima bakes its own bread beside the coffee counter, and that house loaf is the base of its long-running 07:00 morning set.
TipHouse bread is sold at the front counter as well as served with the morning set, but the best loaves go early.
Hachidorisha is a Hiroshima book cafe built around peace-education titles, and it opens from 11:00 on any date containing a six, whatever the weekday.
OrderFilter coffee with whatever lunch plate is on that weekend
TipClosed Mondays and Tuesdays unless the date contains a six, which is the shop's nod to the sixth of August.
Kissa Saeki looks like any other Hiroshima kissaten from the door, but the kitchen behind it is organic, additive-free and very largely plant-based.
OrderThe vegan salad set, served 10:00 to 11:00 only
TipThe room keeps kissaten hours and closes by 17:00 at weekends, so this is a morning or early-afternoon stop.
Akam Coffee Works is the Hiroshima roaster most visitors walk past, a small Kokutaiji-machi counter that supplies beans to cafes right across the city.
OrderA bag of the current single-origin roast to take home
TipGreen unroasted beans and one-kilo wholesale bags are both sold here, which is unusual at this scale.
Rue Brazil opens at 07:00 in Hiroshima with the morning set the city is credited with inventing: bread, a boiled egg, salad and a cup of coffee.
OrderMorning set A with bread, boiled egg, salad and coffee
TipMorning sets stop at 10:30, after which the room switches to sandwiches, curry rice and buttered toast.
Kissa Saeki serves an organic morning in central Hiroshima, and its vegan salad set appears for exactly one hour before the lunch menu replaces it.
OrderThe vegan salad set between 10:00 and 11:00
TipWeekend service ends at 17:00 with last orders at 16:30, so the morning window is genuinely the best of it.
Obscura Coffee Roasters roasts for Hiroshima at its Motomachi Park site and pours the results over the Fukuromachi counter, the branch with the seats in it.
TipFreshly roasted beans are sold alongside the drinks, and the shop shuts one Wednesday a month, so check before making a special trip.
Akam Coffee Works is a small Hiroshima roaster in Kokutaiji-machi selling roasted lots, green beans, drip bags and a subscription to its own coffee.
TipThe roastery wholesales one-kilo bags to local cafes, so ask which Hiroshima rooms are pouring the current lot.
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