cafe Hitokoe — Restaurant in Kyoto

After a slow morning of walking taking in the local shrines we stopped off here for lunch. It looked nice from the website. We were not disappointed. Very relaxed atmosphere, our Japanese is very poor but the owners are beyond friendly and have handy pictures that accompany the dishes so you know what you're ordering. The food itself was delicious. We had free flowing tea on arrival. So relaxing by the stream. Be careful about mosquitos, my partner and I where on the menu as well during lunch, the owners tried their absolute hardest to improve this. Certainly wasn't worth taking a star of for what was a perfect meal. Would highly recommend if you're after a...

Quite unlucky to visit this dainty cafe when the river beside it was under irrigation! 😭 We caught a stray cat pooping across the street, though, so maybe we weren’t that unlucky? Haha.

Anyway, the master was very kind. He has a nice collection of photo albums with the shop’s pictures all throughout the four seasons. Would love to go back in the springtime or on a very snowy day. 😌

Coffee wasn’t so good though and he served us cold...

such a beautiful and quiet cafe with soft jazz playing in the background. when i went they did not have food, just desserts and drinks, but nonetheless it was such a wonderful and peaceful experience. i got the coffee and cake and they were both delicious. i'm honestly upset i don't live in kyoto because i'd come...