the straw hat café is the ghibli museum's only sit-down restaurant. it was created with the help of a housewife who is a mother of four; miyazaki wanted the café's food to be "a kind of home cooking". the café serves hot and cold foods, snacks, and desserts. sold at the takeout section is an original alcoholic beverage: "valley of the wind" beer. the beer was created by a collaboration with dairy kingdom oratche, a microbrewery in tanna basin. the beverage's label was hand drawn by gorō miyazaki, hayao miyazaki's son, who is an animation director at studio ghibli as well.