1Natural Cafeina

Enjoy a healthy breakfast at a natural cafe in Kyukaruizawa

A popular cafe located at Shinonome intersection in the Kyu-Karuizawa area. They serve breakfast from 7am on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. Their signature dish is the "Super Acai Bowl," topped with plenty of fresh fruits such as mango and blueberries. Brazilian acai is mixed with mango, banana, soy milk, and more for a smooth texture. For those who want a hearty breakfast, we recommend the "Karuizawa French Toast." It's a hearty dish that can be enjoyed with sausages and omelets.

We also recommend the specialty coffee carefully selected by the owner.

The interior of the shop, with its woody decor, has an atmosphere reminiscent of a tropical rainforest in Central and South America. This is a reproduction of the owner's favorite scenery from his travels around the world, including Brazil and Asian countries. In this natural atmosphere, you can enjoy your breakfast with a cup of carefully selected coffee. The owner carefully selects specialty coffee from Ethiopia, Kenya, El Salvador, and other countries, and brews it in a French press. Close your eyes and enjoy the unique aroma and sweet aftertaste.

Natural Cafeina

• https://www.natural-cafeina.com/
• 25 Karuizawa East, Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku District, Nagano Prefecture MAP
• 8 minutes walk from JR Karuizawa Station
• From JR Karuizawa Station, take the Seibu Tourist Bus bound for "Kusatsu hot spring" for about 2 minutes, get off at "Shindo" and walk for a short distance
• 8:00-17:00 (7:00- on Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays)
• Tuesday and Wednesday
• 0267-42-3562
• free

2Bakery & Restaurant Sawamura Karuizawa Harunire Terrace

A hearty breakfast plate with homemade yeast bread

This popular bakery and Restaurant has long queues on weekends and during the summer season. The Harunire Terrace store opens from 7am. The standard breakfast is the "Sawamura Morning Plate." It is a hearty meal with three types of homemade bread, fried egg, sausage, salad, yogurt, and more. They also specialize in their homemade soup, and their cold roasted corn soup in the summer is a popular menu item with many repeat customers. The drink included with the set is the "Sawamura Bakery Blend," which is roasted in-house. This rich, dark roasted coffee can be enjoyed hot or iced.

Airy Pain de Mie as a Souvenir from Karuizawa

Pets are allowed on the terrace, so you can enjoy your holiday breakfast with your beloved dog. There is also a bakery next to Restaurant, so you can take out freshly baked bread.homemadeBaking with yeastBread is also recommended as a souvenir from Karuizawa. Popular products that are only available in the Karuizawa area are "Shinshu Nozawana Bread" and "Pain de Mie made with local flour from Nagano Prefecture." Pain de Mie has an airy texture and is thickly sliced, so you can enjoy the rich flavor of butter when toasted.

Bakery & Restaurant Sawamura Karuizawa Harunire Terrace

• https://b-sawamura.com/shop/118/
• Nagano Prefecture, Kitasaku District, Karuizawa Town, Nagakura 2145-5 Karuizawa Hoshino Area "Harunire Terrace" MAP
• Approximately 15 minutes by car from JR Karuizawa Station, approximately 5 minutes by car from Shinano Railway Nakakaruizawa Station
• From JR Karuizawa Station, take the Seibu Tourist Bus bound for "Hoshino hot spring Tombo no Yu via Kyu-Karuizawa" for about 20 minutes, then get off at "Hoshino hot spring Tombo no Yu" and walk for about 1 minute
• Bakery: 7:00 - 21:00
  Restaurant 7:00-22:00 (Last Orders 21:00)
  *All times from 8:00 in winter (December to February)
• Open daily
• 0267-31-0144
• Paid (2 hours free for Harunire Terrace users)

3Maruyama Coffee Harunire Terrace

Enjoy hot dogs and delicious coffee on the terrace where you can hear the babbling of the river.

Maruyama Coffee is a specialty coffee shop founded in Karuizawa in 1991. Harunire Terrace store is open every morning from 8am, and you can enjoy breakfast on the terrace where you can hear the babbling of the stream. The morning menu is a set of bread, drink, and yogurt. The popular hot dog is made with bread specially ordered for Harunire Terrace store. The sausage made from domestic ground beef and pork goes perfectly with sauerkraut. The classic way to enjoy it is with the medium-dark roasted "Harunire Terrace Blend" brewed in a French press.

Take home-roasted coffee beans and coffee chestnut dorayaki as souvenirs

The store sells home-roasted coffee beans sourced directly from origins around the world, including Africa, Central and South America, and Asia. You can purchase your favorite beans, including seasonal recommended beans, starting at 100g. If you can't decide which beans to choose, we recommend the "Harunire Terrace Blend," which is also offered in the breakfast set. It's a great way to take them home as a memento of Karuizawa. Another popular souvenir is the "Coffee Chestnut Dorayaki." This is a collaboration product with Obusedo, a long-established chestnut confectionery store in Obuse Town, Nagano Prefecture, and sells out quickly when it hits the shelves.

Maruyama Coffee Harunire Terrace

• https://www.hoshino-area.jp/harunireterrace/maruyamacoffee/
• Nagano Prefecture, Kitasaku District, Karuizawa Town, Nagakura 2145-5 Karuizawa Hoshino Area "Harunire Terrace" MAP
• Approximately 15 minutes by car from JR Karuizawa Station, approximately 5 minutes by car from Shinano Railway Nakakaruizawa Station
• From JR Karuizawa Station, take the Seibu Tourist Bus bound for "Hoshino hot spring Tombo no Yu via Kyu-Karuizawa" for about 20 minutes, then get off at "Hoshino hot spring Tombo no Yu" and walk for about 15 minutes.
• 8:00-19:00 (last orders 18:30) (may vary depending on the season)
• Open everyday (may be closed temporarily)
• 0267-31-0553
• Paid (2 hours free for purchases of 2,000 yen or more in the Hoshino area)

4Boulangerie Asanoya Old Road Main Branch

Located on Kyu-Karuizawa Ginza Street, this extremely popular shop is famous for its freshly baked bread in a stone oven. It is also popular as a breakfast Restaurant until 11am.

A popular morning menu item is the "Shinshu Rye Galette." In French, galette means "round baked dish," and while buckwheat flour is often used, Asanoya uses rye flour, which gives off a rich rye flavor. It is recommended to eat it with the yolk of a soft-boiled egg crumbled. Onion soup, bread, and a drink are also included in the set.

Croque monsieur, a croissant topped with two types of cheese and white sauce, is also popular. The specialty beef stew is also available from the morning.

Eat freshly bought bread in the restaurant

If you order a drink, you can bring in what you buy from the bread corner and eat it there. Larger breads like baguettes and country breads are sliced and lightly toasted in a stone oven. Any leftovers can be bagged and taken home. In addition to Restaurant space, there is also a place where you can sit and relax.

Boulangerie Asanoya Old Road Main Branch

• http://www.b-asanoya.com/
• 738 Karuizawa, Karuizawa-machi, Kitasaku-gun, Nagano Prefecture MAP
• 3 minutes walk from the bus stop "Kyu-Karuizawa"
• 8:00-18:00 Summer 7:00-20:00, Winter 9:00-17:00
  Breakfast menu is available from opening until 11:00
• Open daily
• 0267-42-2149
• None

5Sheridan

The name of the cafe comes from Sheridan Road, a road that runs along Lake Michigan in Chicago. The owner fell in love with Chicago breakfasts during a trip there, and as Karuizawa's climate and environment are similar, he decided to open a Chicago-style breakfast and brunch cafe.
Salmon omelette is also a Chicago-style dish. Made with whipped eggs, it is a fluffy omelette with cream cheese and smoked salmon beautifully arranged on top. When eaten together, it is a dish that allows you to enjoy the richness and umami of the dish.

A meticulously designed green landscape

The interior is modeled after a casual American diner. The windows have been carefully designed so that you can enjoy the beautiful greenery outside from any seat. They also offer classic Chicago-style pancakes and Dutch pancakes called "panekukken," so you can enjoy an American-style breakfast.

Sheridan

• https://sheridan.co.jp/index.html
• 1166-50 Hatchi, Karuizawa-machi, Kitasaku-gun, Nagano Prefecture MAP
• 15 minutes by car from Karuizawa Station
• November to March 7:30 to 15:00
  April to October 6:30 to 15:00
  *Last orders are taken at 2:00 p.m. on all business days.
• December to February: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
  March/November: Tuesday and Wednesday
  April to October: Wednesday
• 0267-31-6005
• free

6Mikuriya

Hotaru no Sato is located in Karuizawa, a place with a tranquil rural landscape. It is a large restaurant built in a spacious house facing a rural mountain area. The restaurant's main dish is white rice made from Nagano brand Gorobei rice, grown on the restaurant's own farm and cooked in a large stove. The "Morning Rice Ball Set" includes rice balls with sesame salt and chopped plum, grilled salmon, kinpira burdock, yudofu, pork miso soup, and pickles. The softly pressed rice balls are the perfect way to enjoy the rice, cooked to bring out the grains. The miso and pickles in the pork miso soup set are homemade, and the yudofu is made with tofu from a local tofu shop. Other dishes available include a "Raw egg on rice set" and a "Morning grated yam soup set."

Enjoying a meal in a Japanese country house

The large, solid house makes you feel like you're visiting a farm in Shinshu. The main attraction is the hearth set up in the center. There is a large rice cooker at the entrance to the kitchen, and you can relax and dine on the tatami room or veranda. In summer, there is seating on the veranda, and pets are allowed. They also sell ingredients unique to Nagano, such as home-grown rice, home-made miso, and oyaki, so they make great souvenirs.

Mikuriya

• https://inakappe-club.jp/mikuriya
• 2127 Hatchi, Karuizawa-machi, Kitasaku-gun, Nagano Prefecture MAP
• 15 minutes by car from Karuizawa Station
• 7:15-15:00 (last order 14:15) Breakfast menu available from opening until 10:30 *Reception may close earlier during peak seasons
• May to October: Open everyday / November to April: Every Wednesday / New Year's holiday
• 0267-41-6741
• free

7Osatate Sabo

This long-established coffee shop has been operating in the same place since it first opened. Even before the breakfast boom, their breakfast set, called the "Good Morning Service," was very popular. The menu is very simple: ham and eggs, toast, salad, and coffee. As the owner has been making the toast himself since the shop opened, the toast is of perfect thickness and doneness. Two fried eggs are served with lightly grilled ham. The salad, made with local lettuce, is highly rated for its homemade soy sauce dressing.

Retro mountain cabin-style interior

Although the restaurant has been renovated once since it first opened, the log cabin-style interior is decorated with the owner's favorite items and souvenirs from regular customers, giving it a nostalgic atmosphere. Outside the windows is a lush landscape, and you can enjoy your breakfast on the log terrace while soaking up the morning air.
The warm personalities of the owners make it easy to see why they have so many regular customers.

Osatate Sabo

• https://www.slow-style.com/gourmet/oshidate-sabou/
• Nagano Prefecture, Kitasaku District, Karuizawa Town, Hatchi 1 MAP
• 10 minutes by car from Karuizawa Station
• 8:00-15:00, 7:00-15:00 in summer
  Breakfast menu is available from opening until 11:00
• Wednesdays (open on public holidays), open daily during summer
• 0267-48-1160
• free