When I entered here after 14:00, the owner kindly welcomed me. Since that, I am a fan of this curry and chocolate cake here. It looks easy to make the curry here, but I couldn’t make that exactly same “vegetable sweet” taste. Every Tuesday is closed so be careful.

A cozy, friendly cafe that is known for its signature curry. Located right next door to Yumeji museum.

Amazing curry and chocolate cake

☕ After seeing the exhibition at Yumeji Museum. Yumeji Cafe Minatoya is a coffee shop that connects the remnants of the exhibition to real time after seeing Yayoi Museum and Takehisa Yumeji Museum. The location is 2-4-3 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, inside the Yayoi Museum building. Business hours are 10:30 - 17:30, last order is 17:00, closed on Mondays, and also closed during museum exhibition change periods and year-end and New Year holidays. Since you can use it just for coffee, it is easy to use as a place to take a break in the middle of walking around the University of Tokyo Yayoi Campus or Nezu/Hongo. The shop name "Minatoya" itself is good. It is clearly stated on the official page that this originates from the small goods store "Minatoya Eshoshi-ten" that Takehisa Yumeji opened in Nihonbashi, Tokyo in 1914 (Taisho 3). Takehisa Yumeji is not just a person who paints beautiful women, but also a person who shaped modern life beauty including book design, goods design, poetry, and advertising sense. The memory that Yumeji himself had a shop and tried to bring paintings and daily necessities closer remains in the current cafe name. This is not just a cafe inside the museum, but a naming method that steps up to the expansion of Yumeji's work. The menu also receives that context properly. Officially, drinks with names approached to Yumeji works or person names line up such as "Yumeji Blend", "Yume no Ato (Cappuccino)", "Oha no Yume (Chamomile Milk Tea)", and food is one of the signboards "Curry full of vegetable sweetness". It is rare to have the feeling of "just borrowed the name" that often happens in cafes connected to museums, and it is interesting that it translates Yumeji's lyricism or Taisho taste into food lightly. This cafe also fits well within the place name Yayoi. The University of Tokyo Yayoi Campus, Nezu, and Hongo are nearby, a place where the academic town and the publishing culture town touch. There, museums and coffee shops crowning modern lyric painters line up. It's not flashy, but when I entered in the middle of walking around Bunkyo-ku, there was a feeling that one layer of culture was added to the day's walking. Just by resting a little inside the store, the way of seeing the town of Yayoi changes. It is very grateful that a place like this continues quietly.

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This is a cafe named after "Minatoya", the shop that Takehisa Yumeji owned for his divorced wife. At the original "Minatoya", daily necessities designed by Yumeji were sold. This is a cafe that also reproduces such an atmosphere. This time, the collaboration menu related to the "Hideko Tachikake Exhibition" that led the era with "Otome-chic" was a perfect match for the atmosphere of "Minatoya".

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