Hive Coffee

Hive Coffee is a stylish new café with a friendly owner located on a five minute walk from Kyoto Gyoen National Park and Karasuma Line’s Imadegawa station exit 1. It sits on the bottom floor of a lovely stand alone house and has a stylish exterior with beautiful horizontal brown tiling and a recessed entrance.

Inside you will find a spacious interior that combines a mid century interior style with Cesca armless chairs and unfinished wooden board walls which gives the café a warm and cozy vibe. Seating consists of one large four-person table, a wall counter with 6 chairs and another two counter chairs next to the kitchen. The kitchen features a beautiful hexagon shaped tile backsplash resembling a bee hive in shiny azul and olive green colors.

The menu is quite varied with coffee (drip or milk (cafe latte 600 yen)) or orange juice. For food Hive serves a variety of toasts (breakfast plate, bacon egg toast, cheese toast or butter toast) or sweets (rare cheesecake, chocolate brownie, scone or cookie). Hive also sells coffee beans.

The café opens early in the morning and is located near Kyoto Gyoen National Park so it’s a great choice in combination with an outing.