Shipyard Cafe Wakacho

you're on yutakamachimitarai, a stretch of kure that doesn't ask much of you. quiet enough that a good café registers differently here than it might in a busier part of hiroshima prefecture. shipyard cafe wakacho has built a real local following in imabari, which takes time and consistency, neither of which happen by coincidence in a place this size. the kind of spot where the coffee is the point, not the backdrop for something else. kure sits close enough to the seto inland sea that the light has a particular quality in the afternoon, and if you time your visit right, that's reason enough to slow down over whatever's in your cup.