Neighborhood: Near Kenrokuen in Kanazawa / 金沢市、兼六園に近い
Style: Western-style Coffeeshop
Website: None but there's a tabelog or the owner's blog
Quite different from the very Japanese food I was eating in the evening was the pleasant afternoons at Cafe Mojo. I wish there was a cafe like this in my neighborhood in Tokyo!
Cafe Mojo is a very mellow coffeeshop. It's shockingly large for a Japanese business, with open-plan seating featuring a lot of overstuffed chairs and couches. The coffee is very good, but the clear winner here is the scones: real homemade, crumbly scones served with clotted cream and organic jam. The Queene Anne in Victoria doesn't really do it any better than this!
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| From Kanazawa Jan 2012 |
The cafe also has free WiFi, which is rare in Japan, so this cafe is a definite must-go place for the traveler. The owner (who is usually the sole employee) speaks perfect English, and the menu is largely bilingual anyway, so a lot of the local foreigner community will stop by here in the afternoon if they can.
This cafe is an easy 5-minute walk from Kenrokuen Garden Ishikawa-mon, but it's not labelled with a big sign. If you have Google Maps here's a link; otherwise, when you come out of Ishikawa-mon, walk down the hill to the large intersection, cross the street to the police box, and walk around the left side of the police box and up the street. The cafe is just after a parking lot on the right, and from the outside it looks like a retail store or something.
This is a lunch + afternoon sort of place, open Wed-Sun 11am-5pm.
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