Journeys to unknown destination in Japan

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DAIGO CAFE in Daigo Town, Ibaraki Prefecture.



Daigo Town is a mountainous super-country town in the northernmost part
of Ibaraki Prefecture, on the prefectural border with Fukushima Prefecture.
Fukuroda Falls is famous, but nothing else is famous nationwide.

The autumn leaves are very beautiful, and I would like everyone to visit.


Hitachi-Daigo Station on the JR Suigun Line is about 3 hours from Tokyo via Mito
Station.

When you get off the train and go out in front of the station, you will find the Steam
Locomotive that was actually used in the past. A typical country town on display,
and nothing else.




However, as you walk along the road in front of this station, you will find a
fashionable private shops. All of them use old buildings as they are.
It creates an indescribable atmosphere.

Surprisingly, this rural town has many buildings designated as a National
Registered Cultural Property .
All of them are as follows.

・ Former Kurosawa Junior High School
・ Former Higuchi Hospital Building
・ Former Uwaoka Elementary School (famous as a location for TV dramas)
・ Former Hatsubara Elementary School
・ Former Saigane Elementary School
・ Former Asakawa Elementary School
・ Former Makinoji Elementary School
・ Former Sotoike Kimono store (Kimono)
・ Former Daigo Bank Head Office

And the DAIGO CAFE building that I visited this time
is one of them, and it is 100 years old.
The owner himself took a year to build the above private house while keeping
the retro atmosphere.
It is a renovated old folk house cafe.


The menu is pasta, curry using Oku Kuji army chicken, omelet rice, and
Daigo Sweets etc.

I ate a delicious curry.


The omelet rice made with Oku Kuji army chicken eggs that my wife ate was
also excellent.


I really want to support the owners and staffs who run such fashionable coffee shops
in such a rural town.

By the way, in this town of Daigo, the people who had the same aspirations as the owner of
DAIGO CAFE form a group called "Daigo Cafe Net" .
It seems that they are developing another fashionablecoffee shops, so I will visit the others
in the future and I want to introduce you all of them.

The website of Daigo Cafe Net is here .


・Dwelling place
　688 Daigo, Daigo Town, Kuji District, Ibaraki Prefecture

・by Train / Bus
　Tokyo Station (JR Joban Line approx. 1 hour 15 minutes) ⇒ Mito Station
　(JR Suigun Line approx. 1 hour 40 minutes) ⇒ Hitachi-Daigo Station
　 (about 5-10 minutes on foot) ⇒ DAIGO CAFE

・by Car
　From Joban Expressway Mito IC, Route 118 (about 1 hour and 20 minutes)
　Parking lot near Daigo Town Hall (free), etc.

・Highlights in the neighborhood
　Walking around Hitachi-Daigo Station (river flow, mountain greenery, autumn leaves)
　Eigenji (Momiji)（You Tube）
　Tsukimachi Waterfall（You Tube）
　Fukuroda Falls

・Video when visiting DAIGO CAFE
　I took it very hard. Please take a look.