Cafe & Artspace Fusha in Wake Town

Hi, it’s Mrs. Wada back on duty. This time I’m going to introduce another cafe that we visited just recently in Wake Town – Cafe & Artspace Fusha (風舎). Wake Town, by the way, is known for wisteria flowers, another reason for our visit this time!

Wisteria Flower Festival in Fuji Park, Wake Town

Cafe & Artspace Fusha (風舎)

Cafe & Artspace Fusha (風舎) is located in a secluded village on a 400-meter high mountain in Wake Town. The building used to be an elementary school (closed last 43 years ago), now owned by Mr. Hideki Kiguchi. Mr. Kiguchi is a wood furniture artist who moved in Wake Town in 1994 and later on opened his workshop and this cafe.

Coffee and Sweets

Mrs. Wada’s pick: chocolate cake and cold brew coffee.

Mr. Wada’s pick: rhum raisin cake and Columbia hot coffee

I’m not sure if I had cold brew coffee before, but I’m pretty sure that this one I had in this cafe is my first time to taste. Quite interesting that it made me want to try making cold brew coffee at home.

Gallery

Surrounding and Outside of the Building

Narrow road towards the cafe’s location

Scenery of the village where the cafe is located

Nice rice terraces scenery in the neighborhood

Narrow curve path towards the cafe

Right in front of the building is a fire-fighting tools storage

Former school building

Pathway towards the building

Former school building

Full view of the building

Say high to cafe’s security chief officer

Inside Building and Cafe

Let’s enter!

Hallway; on the right side is the entrance to the workshop’s room

Hallway and stairways

Stairways; left side is the entrance to the cafe (2nd floor)

Entrance to Mr. Kiguchi’s workshop – Moebel

View from second floor

Inside the cafe

Another view

Window-side seats

Window view

Scenery right outside of the cafe

Tsubame birds, they freely come and go around the building

Old-style lock

Nice looking milk container

Cafe’s menu

Different drink options, sweets and light meals

Menu for summer

Wooden floor

Mr. Kiguchi’s Artworks

Artwork display section

Some of the artworks of Mr. Kiguchi

More artworks on display

Store Information

It’s an interesting experience to be able to go inside an old school building, enjoy a cup of coffee and sweets and hear stories from the owner and other customers. In the old days, students of this school were from families who lived and worked at nearby coal mine, nearby like more than 1 hour walk though.

By the way, on our way out, the security chief officer keeps barking towards the direction where we didn’t sense any presence of anyone… Thanks for reading!