This museum is arranged building from UCC Coffee Hall which was the one of the pavilions at Kobe Port Island Exposition from 1981. This is the only museum in Japan that has a theme of coffee. When the time of Expo, the coffee cup was motif of this building, but after the renewal of 1987, it changed to Islamic style that is looks like the mosque. There is main head office building of UCC is nearby that the museum is directory connected.

It has display process of coffee which starts from origin of coffee, plantation, marketing, and processing that has explained in chronological order. And introduction to the culture of the coffee how you enjoy, and the history of UCC in film and panel, and you can also see the CM and the coffee-can design that has used before. The name of UCC was in animation drama Evangelion New Theatrical Edition: Break that there is the display of commemoration panel which has autograph of director and the person in charge of 2D digital work of the animation. UCC has been producing the coffee with can design of Evangelion’s characters called Eva-cans that somehow they are related with Evangelion.
There is a coffee shop: Coffee Road where you can enjoy the coffee from all over the world, and the menu are special that you can only find in here. There are activities related to coffee that you can participate with the advanced reservation. The Coffee Seminars are held quite often that it is fun museum for coffee fans.

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Basic information

Hours Museum 10:00～17:00 (Last admission 16:30)

Closed

Admission Fee

Address

Website  http://www.ucc.co.jp/museum/

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