This bagel shop is located in an alley on Yuge Island. The wooden building is the shop owner, Maki Miyahata's grandmother, and father’s old house. The main pillar is made of tsuga wood, a high-grade building material, and carpenters' playful workmanship remains, and the building is a registered tangible cultural property of Japan. Yuge is an island of sailors, and there were many skilled ship carpenters, and the facilities are still solid even after more than 100 years because of the careful work of the carpenters of that time. Maki moved with her family from Kobe to preserve these buildings.
They remake the stairs into product shelves, use a large colander for roasting coffee beans in-house, and use as much as possible of what they have at home. Everywhere in the store, one can feel the warmth of the careful, old-fashioned Japanese conscientious living style and the warmth of human hands. They want to cherish such a life, so they do not mass-produce by machine but knead by hand, one by one, carefully. They are particular about their handiwork. The popular bagel (180 yen and up) has a chewy texture. The more you bite into it, the richer the flavor of Hokkaido wheat and the gentler the handmade taste spreads.
After a bagel and hot coffee (350 yen) and rest in the garden, take a walk around the area. The Kamiyuge area, where the store is located, retains traditional Japanese architectural decorations called "lattice doors" and "Namako walls," and you can experience the history of the island, which prospered as a port town where people of high status stayed.
Highlights
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The building is an old private house registered as a tangible cultural property of Japan.
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Maki's kind personality.
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Handmade bagels filled with love.
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The aromatic coffee roasted by herself.
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The atmosphere of the historical town of Kamiyuge.
