Pause Coffee

On a 6 minute walk from Fukushima station or 14 minutes from Umeda is a new stylish cafe called ’Pause Coffee’ located on the edge of Fukushima area.

We are venturing into a ‘new’ part of Osaka this time and are visiting Fukushima area, not to be confused with the Fukushima prefecture North of Tokyo.

Since Fukushima is close to Osaka’s central hub (Umeda en JR Osaka Station) it is a quite well known area and already has many popular cafes.

Today we can add a new cafe to that list called ‘Pause Coffee’.

‘Pause Coffee’ opened it’s doors in November 2019 and is part of the Pause hairsalon that is located on the 2nd floor.

The cafe has a stylish small white tiled exterior with a dark blue window-door frame. In front of the window is a long stylish concrete and wooden bench where people can wait or enjoy their coffee outside. The bench is under a roofing so even when it rains you can sit outside.

The same bench can be found on the opposite side of the window on the inside. The counter is mainly matte black and some parts use the same wood finish as the benches.

In the back is a large dining table that consists of a large slab of oakwood totally fitting the rest of the stylish interior of the cafe.

‘Pause Coffee’ has quite a few delicious items on the menu of which mainly toast and hot sandwiches.

We heavily recommend their German potato sandwich.

While ‘Pause Coffee’ is on a 6 minute walking distance from Fukushima station we’d recommend walking from Umeda or JR Osaka station, it will take about 10 minutes more or less but you can save the train-fee.