Part 06 of my series “TO MAKE” …where I doodle with my apple pencil as I watch K-dramas. True life.
Back in October, I traveled to Okayama with my two dear friends Miri and Steph. We woke up on the last day of our mini-vacay to go grab coffee. The one shop we knew we HAD to see was Café Kitsune.
kitsune. apple pencil. ipad. procreate.
“Kitsune” means “fox” in Japanese, and Maison Kitsune is a French/Japanese fashion brand that has opened up a chain of some of the coolest cafes in the world. They have shops in Paris, Seoul, New York, Shanghai and Tokyo. Interestingly enough, they recently opened up a cafe in Okayama prefecture of all places. Why Okayama? good question. People wondered why my friends and I took a trip there as well.
The main reason we booked a trip to this lesser-known-but-equally-amazing prefecture of Japan was to visit a magical little land called KURASHIKI which took my breath away! On top of that, Okayama city is a good place to stay when visiting TESHIMA - an art island that basically is the dopest place I have ever been in my entire life. So, long story short, we found ourselves in Okayama city and couldn’t leave without a visit to Café Kitsune.
This cafe is beautiful. And I mean B E A U T I F U L. If you walk 10 minutes from Okayama Castle you will cross a wide bridge and then find a chill suburban road that looks very…unassuming. If not for google I would have absolutely passed this road in a second and never guessed the worlds coolest coffee shop would reside there. So you’re on this road, tiny cars zooming by and you pass this one tall stark white building that is some architecture firm and tucked right next to it is CAFÉ KITSUNE in all it’s glory. It looks like a super old Japanese style house that they converted to a coffee shop. It’s that mix of traditional and modern that makes it magical. There are no seats inside, just hip baristas serving strong coffee in their parisian style outifts - classic Japan, always throwing me a curveball in the middle of nowhere. We ordered our coffee, debated buying a sweatshirt but then realized it was 150USD (ha! jokes on us), and sipped our hot drinks in the sunshine on a tiny road, grateful for the moment.
Café Kitsune Okayama, thank you for the inspiration.
