Seoul's Harry Potter Themed Cafe (My Honest Review)

The 943 King's Cross Cafe, better known as the Harry Potter Cafe, is a unique 7 story cafe located in the neighborhood of Hongdae, Seoul, and the building is hard to miss. Amid Korea's flood of quirky and themed cafes, this stands out as one of the most popular. With 7 stories to explore, this is a great addition to your Seoul itinerary or to a day of cafe hopping! They even have a wizard themed pub in the basement!

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What to Expect at the Harry Potter Cafe

With 7 floors to explore, you could easily spend a few hours at the cafe if you want, if you can even call this massive building a cafe. Each floor is uniquely decorated and themed in a way that gives off the feeling of actually being in Hogwarts. With brooms, wands, robes, and endless photo opportunities, there's plenty to explore and I highly recommend spending time looking around each floor!

As for food and drinks, every visitor is required to buy a minimum of one drink for their price of entry. They have different kinds of pastries, snack boards, and drinks like coffees, hot chocolates, and even the famous butter beers from The Three Broomsticks. There are plenty of different places to sit throughout the cafe, and my personal favorite were the bed themed booths on the same floor with the Hogwarts living quarters living room photobooth!

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My Experience at the Cafe

Personally, I think this cafe is definitely worth a stop - whether you're a Harry Potter fan or not. Although I loved the decorations, my favorite floor was the entryway which I found to be the most Harry Potter based and the most detailed with incredible rows of wands and multiple mirrors and floating broomsticks. Although there were plenty of other floors to explore and had a few Harry Potter decorations, I found that some of them were a bit random, like the Christmas decorations - however others, like the stairway filled with paintings is spot on.

I was genuinely surprised at the amount of photoshoot stations throughout the cafe, although if you're familiar with the selfie/photo booth scene in Korea then you won't be. They even have robes and wands for you to use in your photos from each of the 4 houses in Harry Potter! They just ask that you be respectful and time sensitive, meaning if there are people waiting behind you that you don't take an excessive amount of time getting your perfect photo.

Their food and drink menu is a little spendy, around 7,000 or 8,000 Won per drink, but is similarly priced to other themed cafes in Seoul. My group tried the cheesecake, hot chocolate, butter beer, and one of their alcoholic drinks and all of them were delicious! The hot chocolate and cheesecake were especially cute with the chocolate wizard hats on top!

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