Not only is Kurume known for its local gourmet offerings such as tonkotsu ramen and yakitori, but it also has a lot of stylish cafes, venerable coffee shops and delicious bakeries! On your day off, take a trip to Kurume, with this map in hand, guiding you to all the sweets and bread!
From temples and shrines to museums and spots for flower-viewing,
this area is loaded with places to visit. While eating sweets or bread,
take a moment to follow your heart's desire…
restaurant
shopping ＆ souvenirOffering stylish desserts and deli dishes, Matsunobu Deli ＋ Coffee County serves the New York cuisine that stimulated the owner, arranged to suit Japanese palates. Owner Matsunobu's unique sensibility shines down to the smallest detail in each dish.
Many local ingredients, such as milk produced in Kurume, go into making their vivid gelato. Taste its true, delicious flavors! After having some in the cafe, take out more for the best cute gift!
Their most popular flavor, Brooklyn Cheesecake, is rich and habit-forming. The fashionable and stylish ambience of this place draws in crowds until the evening.
Only those items that the chef personally calls "delicious", based on experience, make it to the menu. The regular dessert menu, featuring 9 types of sweets, is a lineup of only the best!
Gentle on the body, their Genmai sweets and enzymatic brown rice lunches may be savored in a Japanese Minka, dating back over 100 years. With popular items like Fuwafuwa Kakigori, shaved ice topped with homemade condensed milk and fresh syrup, the menu offerings change by season, so this café can be enjoyed all year long.
Nanatasu's concept is creating a place that the owner wants to visit. It's easy to drop in and enjoy this café by trying a drink from the wide variety available. The homemade coffee jelly and fresh cream chocolate are popular menu items!
Shinohara's coffee, roasted in-house and brewed with a siphon, is paired with cakes carefully chosen by the owner. Slip back in time and relax for a moment in the ambience of this historical coffee shop.
A Small Black and Green Teashop with Sweets
Their sweets menu of seasonal waffles, puddings and terrines is popular. By drinking and comparing black and green teas in its stylish interior, this shop shows you a new way to enjoy tea.
Opened 40 years ago, this established coffee shop is in Ichibangai Shopping Arcade. They proudly offer pancakes served with lots of fruit. The coffee is made with a special blend, carefully brewed one cup at a time. Their hand-made pudding is also recommended.
On a dessert menu that has remained largely intact since its founding, Koren's all-natural Matcha ice cream uses ingredients that haven't changed in over 70 years. Loved by many generations, this confectionery can be enjoyed with confidence in its safety.
Founded in 1977, Gin no Spoon has led the way for Kurume's sweets shops. The cakes are made to preserve the natural flavors of their mainly local ingredients. "Sacristan", a crunchy stick-type pie, is recommended as a souvenir.
Founded in 1977, Gin no Spoon has led the way for Kurume's sweets shops. The cakes are made to preserve the natural flavors of their mainly local ingredients. "Sacristan", a crunchy stick-type pie, is recommended as a souvenir.
About 19 types of parfaits are offered a la carte. The parfait lunch menu, which let you choose among Matcha, cassis, maple or chocolate parfaits, is also popular. Run by a couple, Café Mot-cle continues to be loved by the locals.
Year-round, they offer 13 types of limited-season parfaits, made with generous portions of home-grown fruit picked each season. Big chunks of fresh fruit are inside these parfaits, served in the most beautiful presentation!
Made with dried fruit from the specialty shop next door, many of the sweets on the menu will please women who care about their health and beauty. Feel the power of a beautiful meal in a stylish space overflowing with good taste!
Yozora is a stylish café decorated with dried flowers. Their popular Shaved Ice is made by flash freezing rich milk specially produced for this dessert, then shaving it with a planer blade. With a fluffy texture that melts in your mouth, this ice cream is the chef's pride and joy.
Aiming to familiarize younger palates with brown sugar, they make Western-style confectionery with it, such as rolled cakes and puddings. Kurobo Saryo is a retro café, redolent of the 1960s. Take a moment to relax in bliss while gazing at the forest!
In keeping with their concept of "Creating Excitement", Peace Souko's interior looks like a hideout. Their rich custard pudding is popular. They also have a full lineup of specialty coffees and organic teas.
Inside this fashionable shop, bread is sold over the counter. The staff at Pain de Cuisson will carefully tell you how to store and eat the bread. Their original low-sugar bread is recommended for those who care about their health. Hard varieties of bread may be sliced for you.
The onsite kitchen produces 70 to 80 kinds of bread and sandwiches every morning. Each shop's chef creates their own original products, so it's recommended that you try all three shops.
The onsite kitchen produces 70 to 80 kinds of bread and sandwiches every morning. Each shop's chef creates their own original products, so it's recommended that you try all three shops.
The onsite kitchen produces 70 to 80 kinds of bread and sandwiches every morning. Each shop's chef creates their own original products, so it's recommended that you try all three shops.
In addition to freshly baked bread, a wide variety of sandwiches await you here. Their deli has a full lineup of items like quiche, filled with fresh seasonal vegetables! Starting from a customer's request, their hors d'oeuvres are also popular.
With a nostalgically delicious taste loved by many, their famous vegetable, minced meat and egg hot dogs, whose contents and packaging have never changed since the shop opened, have appeared in national TV and magazines.
Carefully made with select ingredients, this bread has been loved by many generations. From sweet to savory deli-style, over 10 types of bagels line the shelves of Nanamaru Bakery.
Over 80 kinds of bread are baked daily at this long-loved shop, with many fans coming from afar! Nanryudo's healthy bread, made with "Fusuma" wheat bran, is highly recommended.
From ancient times, sake breweries have prospered in this area.
There are even breweries offering testings and tours!
For more details,
be sure to check the Kurume Sakagura (Sake Brewery) Map!
See the Kurume Sakagura (Sake Breweries) Map
restaurantshopping ＆ souvenirAll of their beautiful sweets are made in-house. Served in a sake bottle, their coffee blend has a depth that complements cake, and it stays warm until the last drop. Tickling all five senses, this shop is lively with guests of many generations.
They always sell three kinds of fruit sandwiches made with fresh cream, such as strawberry, banana or melon. Among their wide selection of sandwiches, the BLT is popular. All of their bread is made with domestic Japanese wheat.
"If the dough isn't tasty, it won't be any good!" Kneaded with loving care, this dough is made with nutritious whole-wheat flour. Crafted with skill by the owner, who was trained in Osaka, Pan no Ie's glistening bread lines the shelves.
Replete with nature,this area offers fruit picking
and plateau views for your enjoyment.
Why not refresh both body and soul
with delicious food and clean air?
See the Mino hokuroku Food & Lodging Map
restaurantshopping ＆ souvenirTaste handmade pies and cakes, made with fruit just picked from the orchard, all year long! Using less sugar to bring out the ingredients' natural flavors, their pie is best just out of the oven!
This shop features a wide selection of desserts made with seasonal fruit. The chiffon cake, with its moist and fluffy mouthfeel, attracts many repeat customers! There is also terrace seating, with sweeping views of Kurume City.
Carefully selected ingredients are used to make the bread the owner hopes you will eat every day. About 40 types of fluffy bread, full of flavor, line the shelves. Guchoki Panja also sells bread for those with allergies.
Every day, 60 to 70 kinds of fashionable bread, with all the dough and toppings made in-house, line the shelves. Chez Sagara is so popular that they sell out. Coming early is recommended!
