Cafe Wacca

slow saturday mornings in himeji have a particular quality, and nikaimachi is a good place to spend one. cafe wacca sits on this street in the older part of the city, not far from the kind of low-rise blocks and local shopfronts that most tourists walk past on their way to the castle. you're not going to feel rushed here. the local crowd clearly knows what they've found, and the word has spread quietly and without any particular fanfare. specialty coffee in a mid-size japanese city can mean a lot of things, but the standing wacca has built suggests a place that takes the coffee itself seriously. worth arriving when the morning is still cool and ordering whatever the filter option of the day happens to be.