Candy Store Spots in Japan

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Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Bread / Dessert / Other Food Shop

Zen Cafe

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Gionmachiminamigawa 570-210

Zen Cafe is operated by Kagizenyoshifusa, a Japanese confectionary established during the Edo period (1615-1867), and is noted for its modern interior design. Customers enjoy Japanese sweets with tea or coffee in a relaxed atmosphere. It is especially famous for its kuzukiri, arrowroot noodles in a sweet sauce, but it also has a number of unique menu items that are not available in the retail shop. Next door to the cafe is a gift shop that sells traditional dry sweets.
Nijo Wakasaya (Teramachi Branch)

4.5

17 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Enokichou 67

Nijo Waksaya is a traditional cafe in Kyoto's Nakagyo Ward. It boasts a long history as a traditional confectionary, and customers can enjoy treats such as kuzukiri (arrowroot noodles in sweet sauce) or warabi mochi (bracken jelly dusted with soy flour). The first floor is a retail shop that sells raw and cooked confections, and the cafe is on the second floor. It offers unique seasonal syrups and its own tea blends, and its variations on shaved ice, such as Uji kintoki with green tea syrup and sweet beans, are popular.

寺町に行くと必ず立ち寄ります。上品な生菓子は、優雅な銘がついていてとても美しいです。特に春の桜のころの上生菓子は魅力的で、どれを買おうか、迷ってしまいます。菱岩さんのお花見弁当と、二条若狭屋の桜の生菓子…我が家の春の定番です。
Chuboku Chaya

4.0

4 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Kiyomizu 1 in the precinct

Chuboku Chaya is located on the grounds of Kiyomizu-dera Temple. The name, which means Loyal Servant, originated with Jusuke Otsuki, who served Gessho, the abbot of Seiju-in Temple at the end of the Edo period. Customers can enjoy sweets, such as warabi mochi (bracken jelly dusted with soy flour), zenzai (sweet red bean soup), or dango (mochi balls), or savory items, such as soba or udon noodles. This teahouse is a popular rest stop for tourists visiting Kiyomizu-dera.

音羽の滝から買える時に通る茶店。ところてんや甘酒などの軽食が頂けます。観光地価格ではあるけど、特別高いという印象もありません。料金先払いです。
Chakobo Nagatake

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Zaimokuchou 189

Chakobo Nagatake is a restaurant in Kyoto's Nakagyo Ward. In addition to typical sweets like daifuku (mochi with a sweet filling) or warabi mochi (bracken jelly dusted with soy flour), the restaurant offers a full range of sweets made with matcha green tea, including popular matcha shaved ice and matcha parfaits. There is also a full menu of grilled fish and small side dishes to accompany alcoholic beverages. Customers can stop in for either dessert or a full meal.
Fushimi Inari Sando Chaya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Fushimi-ku Fukakusakaidochou 1-10

Fushimi Inari Sando Chaya is located on the path leading to Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto's Fushimi Ward. One of its most popular menu items is Inari Amazake, half-fermented sake, with mochi, inspired by a legend. Other favorites are Inaka Mochi, (toasted mochi with a generous serving of sweet bean sauce and toasted soy flour) and floats or shaved ice made with matcha green tea. This teahouse is a favorite of local residents, and it also attracts tourists on their way back from visiting the shrine.
Gion Tamejiro Gion Restaurant

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Gionmachiminamigawa 576 Ohka Building 2F

This Japanese sweets cafe in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City is operated by the NishioYatsuhashi store, which started Yatsuhashi. Visitors can enjoy parfaits and cakes made with matcha, as well as zenzai or oshiruko bean desserts. Light meals such as Kyoto style ramen, soba, chicken soba or bowls can also be enjoyed here. There are other branches of this store, but some items on the menu are only available at this Gion store.
Aragaki Zenzai

4.0

104 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Kunigamigunmotobuchou Toguchi 11-2

This zenzai (red bean sweet) specialty shop is in Toguchi of Motobu Town in Kunigami County, across from the town market. Okinawa's zenzai is different from that of Honshu in that it generally refers to shaved ice combined with sweet boiled kidney beans and other toppings. “Aragaki Zenzai” only serves this type of zenzai, and since the store opened, it has enjoyed popularity for over 50 years.

GW中、斜向かいの沖縄そば屋さん、きしもと食堂訪問後の11:30頃に訪問。 12:00開店ですが既にひと組の先客がありました。車はお店の裏の駐車場に停めましたが、もともときしもと食堂の駐車スペースに停めていましたのて、新垣ぜんざい屋のスペースに停め直しました。この時間、きしもと食堂のスペースは満車でしたが、新垣ぜんざい屋の駐車スペースは十分に空いていました。 12:00少し前に店内に入れて下さ...
Ishigakijima Reika (ice confectioneries)

4.0

25 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Ishigakishi Okawa 3051F

Enjoy some iced zenzai (red bean sweet) at this Japanese sweets cafe. This popular item is made from specially prepared ice that is nice and fluffy, along with black molasses featuring a light sweetness. It is topped with rich-tasting rice-flour dumplings containing shell ginger and Japanese mugwort, as well as boiled beans. Other popular options include old-fashioned ice cream and imagawayaki (Japanese muffin with bean jam) with rice-flour dumpling.

暑い夏は冷たいミルクぜんざいに限ります。スナックパインと一緒にいただきました。ぜんざいは量か少なかったですが、ぜんざいもパインも美味しかったです。
Koto Shuri Kari Buku-buku Tea House

3.5

13 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Shurikehatachou 9 Kuriru - Building 1F

Koto Shuri Kari Sanfan is a teahouse located in the Shuri Ikehata-cho district that specializes in Buku Buku Tea. Buku Buku Tea is a uniquely Okinawan form of tea that involves scattering popped rice grains on top of the tea before serving it. It was popular among the elite families in Shuri during the era of the Ryukuan kings, and was apparently served to foreign guests as a special delicacy. At Koto Shuri Kari Sanfan, visitors can enjoy making and drinking Buku Buku Tea.

This is not the boba tea, or bubble milk tea, and its so much fun. A tiny place that you enter thru the first floor and seats are on the end. Lots of cute deco and cozy seating. I ordered the...
HAPPY Turn’s

Gourmet / Alcohol

Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Kakudachou 8-7 Hankyu Umeda head office B1F

Located in the first floor basement of Hankyu Umeda Main Store approximately a two minute walk away from Umeda Station on the Midosuji Subway Line. This is a confectionery shop which sells Kameda Seika “Happy Turns” confectionery as gifts. Of course there are many different varieties of flavors, and the cute attractive packaging is eye catching. The display which also feel high-class, looks totally different from what one would also usually see. There are various flavors of Happy Turns such as strawberry, salted butter and camembert cheese, you would also be delighted with some as a souvenir or gift.
Fruit Garden Yamaguchi Kudamono (Eki Marche Shin-Osaka Store)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Osaka Osakashi Yodogawa-ku Nishinakajima 5-16-1 (Within JR Shin-Osaka Station premises' conventional line ticket gate)

This fruit parlor in the Eki Marche shopping area at Shin-Osaka Station was formed around the concept of enjoy fruit and their showcase always displays a selection of seasonal fruit pastries. Popular menu items include a fruit sandwich absolutely jam packed with fresh fruit and cream, and their colorful fruit jellies. Both of these are available year-round and are supplemented by seasonal items available for a limited time only. In the summer try the shaved ice topped with fresh fruit.
Kurian Fumido

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nagano Pref. Kamitakaigunobusemachi Obuse 414

Located in Obuse Town, Kamitakai County, Nagano Prefecture, this long-established confectioner opened in 1864. They make and sell chestnut candy—a specialty of Obuse—and in the spacious interior, you’ll find rows of various sweets made using quality, domestic chestnuts. Popular options range from the standard “chestnut jelly” with its elegant sweetness to the “kurikanoko” made from only chestunt and sugar and the “hatsuguri” which won the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Award. The interior also features a café space, where you enjoy sweets made with chestnut or Obuse ingredients.
Ciboulette

3.5

9 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nagano Prefecture Kitasaku-gun Karuizawa-machi Old Karuizawa 668 Karuizawa shopping array

A café located in “Karuizawa Shopping Alley” in Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture operated by a natural ice vendor which was founded over 100 years ago. The café is famous for its sweet, shaved ice, made with rare natural ice created by freezing spring water from Mt. Asama outdoors in the cold air of winter. Shaved thin and fine, the ice is light, resembling fresh-fallen snow. Piled heaping high, you might think one bowl is too much to eat, but it’s so delicious you’ll find your spoon hitting bottom before you know it.

とてもとても大きなフワフワのかき氷です。天然氷を使っているので頭がキーンとなりません。店員のおじ様も優しいです。
Chimoto

3.5

33 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Karuizawa 691-4

This is a long-established sweets shop, founded in 1947, on Kyu-Karuizawa Ginza Street. The shop sells famous sweets such as Chimomoto-mochi (rice cakes), soy sauce fragrant grilled soft rice cake balls, irresistible delicately sweet soybean paste dumplings, and shaved ice using natural ice offered throughout the year. In summer there are long queues of people wanting to try the shaved ice.

みたらし団子と言ったら、醤油と砂糖の甘辛に慣れているので、醬油だけの団子はちょっと物足りないと言うかさっぱり過ぎでした。お店の雰囲気はとても良いので、ちょっと一休みするにはとても良いです。
Daigahara Kinseiken

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamanashi Pref. Hokutoshi Hakushuchoudaigahara 2211

This is a well-established Japanese sweets shop boasting over 100 years of history, located in a corner of Daigaharajuku on the Koshu-kaido Road. The Japanese sweets use homemade slowly cooked bean paste. The beans, which are cultivated with limited pesticide from restricted farmers, are produced in Tokachi, Hokkaido and are cooked slowly with the water of Hakushu, selected as one of the 100 best waters. The aroma and moderate sweetness is exquisite with a refreshing after taste. Every summer (from the beginning of June until the end of September), on Saturdays and Sundays, excluding holidays, they offer a limited number of simple sweets “mizushingen mochi” using famous Hakushu water which is also used in the red bean paste, set with agar.
Cha no Chimoto

4.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunhakonemachi Yumoto 690

This café in Hakone Town, Ashigarashimo County, Kanagawa Prefecture allows guests to try Japanese sweets from the long-established Japanese sweet shop Yumochi Honpo Chimoto together with Japanese tea. The shop interior based on white has gentle curves which give it an atmosphere like that of a museum. It is popular to enjoy the fresh-made Japanese sweets such as the well-known yumochi, in which yokan (red bean jelly) has been sliced and placed inside the soft mochi (rice dumplings), and warabi-mochi (bracken flour rice dumplings) as a set with Japanese tea. In summer they also offer shaved ice with a soft, fluffy texture.

運よく席が空いており入れました。前回箱根に来たときは、列ができていては入れなかったです。季節を感じられるメニューで、値段も高すぎず、おしゃれな空間でゆっくりできました。
Isseki-an

4.5

12 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shizuoka Pref. Izushi Shuzenji 950-1

This Japanese sweet café is located on the opposite bank of the Katsura River that flows in front of the gate of the ancient Shuzenji Temple in Izu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. It is a popular café where customers can look out over the river to the temple and the hot spring town and take a break before or after praying at the temple or from their walk. It serves a variety of sweets that provide a welcome break such as mochi rice cakes made from the local speciality, black rice, a nicely sweet cream anmitsu (bean, agar and syrup confection), a matcha green tea set and, in the winter, warm oshiruko (mochi rice cakes in sweet red bean soup). There is an ashiyu footbath outside for customers to use – a way to relieve your fatigue free of charge.

修善寺は非常に落ち着いた町、京都的な町です。その中にある、これまた京都的なカフェでした。よく似合っていました。また、修善寺は歴史によく登場する街でもありますね。散策しながらの甘味は最高です。
Chaan Fuyo

4.5

8 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shizuoka Pref. Izushi Shuzenji 1082

Chaan Fuyo is a tea house situated next to the grave of Minamoto no Noriyori on top of a small hill in Shuzenji, Izu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Time passes by quietly and serenely inside this old Japanese house. Here you can sip carefully selected matcha green tea and enjoy sweets while gazing out over the ever changing gardens. Their signature dish is the rice-flour dumplings with azuki beans and matcha ice-cream. The texture of the handmade dumplings is to die for. Their green tea complete with a selection of freshly made sweets which differ each month is also particularly good. When the weather is nice and sunny you can enjoy tea outside on the garden benches.

修善寺の山腹を散歩していてたまたま見つけた、広く古風で品の良い民家。よく見てみると、茶寮でした。和室からは、ガラス戸越しによく手入れされた庭と修善寺の山が望め、品の良い掛け軸もあり、なんとも上品な気分に浸れます。ぜんざいをいただきましたが、おいしかったです。
Nakamuraya

4.0

10 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shizuoka Pref. Atamishi Tawarahonchou 5-12

A Japanese-style sweets cafe in Nakamise Shopping Street near Atami Station, you’ll recognize this place by its brown bricks. The Japanese-modern style and relaxing music lends the interior a calm, mature ambience. It is known for its “kogane mochi” (gold rice cakes), which is served at traditional Japanese inns. Soft rice is combined with sweet bean paste to create a sticky sweet. There’s also shredded kuzu cake with black syrup, red bean soup, and other goods that offer a refreshing sweetness. They also sell souvenirs you can take home.

電車のまで時間があったのでコーヒーでも飲もうと歩いていたら、上品な和菓子屋さんを見つけました。席につくなり、石鹸の香りのする熱々のおしぼりを出してくれて感動。コーヒーと冷やしこがねもちをオーダー。美味しくいただきました。ほうじ茶も良い香りで美味しく、お金を取らない物に、これだけ丁寧なのは素晴らしいと思いました。
Mase Confectionery Sakimi Town (Atami) Branch

4.0

11 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shizuoka Pref. Atamishi Sakimichou 4-29

This is a cafe operated by a longstanding confectionery founded in 1872 and situated in Sakimi Town, Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The windows are large, and the wooden interior really enhances the natural ambience. Amidst the bright, Western atmosphere, the dishes feature a unique sweetness and are made from select ingredients. The Uji shiratama (frit) kan, authentic kudzu noodles, and cream anmitsu (“mitsumame” dessert topped with bean jam) are some popular options. There’s also a gallery on the premises, with painting, writing, and pottery occasionally being exhibited.

熱海仲見世通りの出口から大江戸温泉物語あたみ方面銀座通りに交わるまでを咲三町通りです。その通りにある和菓子の老舗は（本家は創業明治5年）菓子の製造販売とカフェを展開しています。営業は月-水・金-日9:00-18:00定休日は木曜日、座席数21席、店内全面禁煙ですので喫煙者は我慢して付き合ってください。田舎しるこ、磯辺餅を頂きました。