Japanese Confectionery Spots in Kyoto Area

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Japanese Confectionery

Demachi Futaba

4.5

34 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto-shi, Kamigyo-ku Ichimachi-dori Imadegawa Kamiru Aerosecho 236

Located along Kawara-machi Street, this Japanese confectioner was founded in 1899. Their famous “nadai mamemochi” features red bean jam and red peas wrapped in freshly-made mochi. It has been around since the founding, and is a standard Kyoto souvenir, popular enough to see people lining up to get some.

テレビの番組で、外国人シェフが選ぶ和菓子ランキングで出町ふたばの豆大福が2位入っていたので、京都に行った時に訪れました。テレビでは、売り切れて買えないこともあるとの事でしたが、コロナの移動制限が解除された直後の金曜の昼頃ですが、10人程の列で10分ほど待ちましたが買えました。豆餅、黒豆大福など購入し、夜に頂きましたが、あんこが甘過ぎず、柔らかな触感で美味しくいただきました。賞味期限は1日のため、地...
Gion Tsujiri (Kyoto Station Hachijoguchi Store)

4.0

59 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto Ward Shimogyo-ku Kyoto Station Hachijoguchi Kyoto Hachijo Asty Road

This is a tearoom in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto City. This tearoom sells Kyoto's famous uji tea, as well as castella cake, tea crackers, and confections. This shop is not only endeared by the locals, but visitors come from afar to purchase their Kyoto souvenirs. Matcha and hojicha flavor softy creams are one of their dessert specialties.

After dinner, we were looking for a place to get dessert. We found this place on the website but could not figure out how to get here. We were so lucky that when we asked a local couple how to get...
Honke Owariya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Kurumayachou Junichiro Niro

Honke Owariya is a soba (buckwheat) confectionery shop located north of Kurumayacho-dori Street from Karasuma Oike Station. It has a long history dating back from the Muromachi period, and in 1465 moved from Owari to Kyoto as a confectionery shop. The shop is built with a charming wooden construction from the early Meiji period, and as it is in a place removed from the hustle and bustle one can enjoy a relaxing moment here. The signature dishes are “Hourai Soba” made in the spirit of “buckwheat is a fortuitous food” and “Soba Mochi” which is a sweet made with soba flour.
MO-AN

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Kiyomizu 2-246

The Japanese confectionery store is located in front of the Kiyomizudera Temple Monzen in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City. This store sells the KiyomizuOfukuhan and Hyakufukuarare crackers made with discriminatingly selected ingredients. There is a cafe in the store where one can enjoy warabimochi cakes or a lunch meal, but the lunchis limited to the first 20 customers only. Many visitors take a break here and buy some souvenirs.
Oboroyazuiundo

3.0

5 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Kita-ku Shichikukamitakedonochou 43

This Japanese sweets shop located in the Kita Ward of Kyoto City in Kyoto Prefecture is famous nationwide, which is why its Nama Dorayaki, which has been shown on TV and other media, sells out soon after the shop opens. Nama Dorayaki is a new type of dora-yaki sweet with several centimeters of fresh cream in addition to red bean paste sandwiched in between two sponge cakes. There are three flavors of ogura (sweet adzuki bean), matcha, and kuro-goma (black sesame) available, and the combination of red bean and cream that is not overly sweet is outstanding. In addition, they also sell popular Japanese sweets such as Oboro, which is koshi-an (fine-grained sweet bean paste) covered in warabi-mochi (bracken-starch dumpling), and Kuri-Mochi Mikasa.

以前訪問した時は営業時間前から行列が出来ており残念ながら買えなかったが、観光客が減っている今は午前11時頃の訪問でも購入出来た。肝心の味も美味しく、とても満足出来た。
OguraSanso, Chikubu no Sato

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Nagaokakyoushi Imazato Hasugaito 45

This store in the city of Nagaokakyo in Kyoto Prefecture specializes in Kyoto sembei (rice crackers). The shop specializes in varieties of sembei named after famous ancient poems. It takes the greatest care with every aspect of production, starting with rice grown in its own paddies. Its elegant atmosphere is typical of Kyoto, and there is a cafe space on the premises as well. Local residents buy sweets for special occasions at this shop, and tourists purchase packages of sembei as souvenirs.
Nakamura Tokichi Honten (Byodoin Branch)

4.5

167 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Ujishi Uji Renge 5-1

Nakamura Tokichi is a Japanese-style confectionary in the city of Uji, Kyoto Prefecture. This venerable shop has its own onsite cafe overlooking the Uji River where customers can enjoy traditional sweets. In addition to ice cream and gelatin desserts made with powdered green tea, customers can also order green tea soba and udon noodles. The restaurant also offers take-out service. Due to its location near the Byodoin Temple, it is a popular refreshment stop for tourists on weekends and holidays.

The place is wonderful for the view outside in front of the river during sunny day, though due to the holiday it’s self service and need to wait for a while to sit, the Byodoin limited “green world...
Kameya Yoshinaga

4.0

28 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Shimogyo-ku 17ju Kashiwa-cho Oishioji Nishi Entry 17-19

This Kyoto sweet shop located in the Kashiwaya-cho neighborhood of Shimogyo Ward was founded in 1803 under the renowned Kameya Ryoan sweet shop. In addition to year round products and seasonal sweets, the shop also holds classes on making fresh Japanese sweets provided by confectionary artisans (reservation required; interpretation in English and Chinese available).

阪急梅田店で笑み福を見つけたので買ってみました。小豆羊羹に、縁起のいい素材が散りばめられた、お正月-節分までの限定和菓子。お正月は干支柄の包装紙ですが、1月中旬-は節分用の包装紙に代わる。デコレーションケーキにも見える和洋折衷菓子の羊羹で美味しかった。縁かつぎついでにコロナも終息しないかなぁ-って思いながら頂きました。
Nakamuraken

4.5

96 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nishikyou-ku Katsurasaharachou 61

This is a historic Japanese confectionery store established in 1883 located right where you disembark at the Katsurarikyu-mae bus stop. This confectionery carries on the meticulous historic method of sweets making, sparing no expenses and using only discriminatingly selected domestic ingredients only, including making the bean paste in an earthen hearth. The specialty, Mugitemochi, was historically eaten by the local farmers as a snack through which the name is derived harkening back to times when wheat was a trade commodity. In the store space is shared as tea cafe also. In the summer, somen noodles and shaved ice is on the menu, while in the fall and winter they serve sweet zenzai and oshiruko bean soup.

店頭には8名程並んでいましたが、10分程で順番が来ました。スッキリ爽やかな「すだちそうめん」と「しそご飯」が、まだ暑い9月にはピッタリです。同じく9月限定の「いちじく氷」は少し小振りのサイズです。白玉団子をトッピングしました。 8月に楽しめる「くず桜」は京都高島屋で買いました。冷やして食べるとより美味しいです。今回は、桂離宮見学後の週末昼頃に訪れました。宮内庁の桂離宮までの交通アクセス図では...
Ajyarimochi Honpo Mangetsu

4.5

52 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto-shi Sakyo-ku Mall Small Road Imadegawa Koulu

A venerable Japanese confectionery shop founded at the end of the Edo period located in Kyoto City’s Sakyo Ward. The shop is famous for its ajari mochi rice cakes, a popular and standard Kyoto souvenir. Resembling the conical wicker hats worn by ajari, the term for a Tendai Buddhist high priest, these elegant sweets consist of a hearty helping of an sweet bean paste stuffed inside a thin, chewy skin of mochi pounded glutinous rice. The shop’s signature mangetsu, a sweet once officially provided to the Kujo prince clan, is also popular and is only sold on Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays.

今回は阿闍梨餅を知人から頂きました、京都に行った時のみやげとしてよく買ってきます、あっさり味の風味で私の好きな和菓子です。
Ryokujuan Shimizu

4.0

39 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Yoshidaizumidonochou 38-2

This konpeito candy shop is a 10-minute walk from Keihan Electric Railway's Demachiyanagi Station in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City. They have more than 50 types of konpeito, including limited-time items made with seasonal fruit and vegetables. Lots of tourists come for their Ultimate Konpeito, a popular souvenir that they only make once a year.

Kyoto Ryokujuan Shimizu Since 1847 Konpeitou Candy Shop konpeitou is Japanese Traditional Sugar Candy I felt, history and craftman friendly for vegetarian, vegan and...
Awamochidokoro Sawaya

4.0

37 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Kamigyo-ku Kitano Tenman-gu Shrine Nishiiru south side

A Japanese confectionary shop located near Kitano Tenmangu Shrine, a Shinto shrine dedicated to scholarly pursuits. A venerable shop founded in the Edo period, the current owner is the shop’s 12th. The shop’s famed awa mochi millet rice cakes are made fresh with just-roasted foxtail millet pounded and mixed with mochi which is then covered with koshian strained sweet bean paste and kinako roasted soybean flour. Takeout is available but patrons can also enjoy freshly pounded foxtail millet in the shop as well.

コロナ禍前や休日は必ず並んで食していたお店らしいですが。ラッキーな事に並ばず、お客さん居なく食せました。創業は1682年。約300年強。粟と餅米を混ぜてつき立ての柔らかい餅にきな粉塗した物とこし餡で包んだ物が暖かい緑茶と合います。ほっこり休憩出来る甘味です。今チャンスです。
Ichijyoji Nakatani

4.0

47 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Ichijoujihananokichou 5

The Ichijyoji Sagari-matsu is the site of a famous pine tree under which the renowned swordsman Miyamoto Musashi defeated a challenger. The nearby Ichijyoji Nakatani tea house and sweet shop has made and sold the Ichijyoji Temple’s famous decchi yokan bean jelly for three generations. In addition to Japanese sweets like shisen mochi rice cakes, the shop also sells Western-style confections prepared by the shop’s proprietress-to-be. The shop’s silky matcha green tea tiramisu is particularly popular and has been featured in the media. The café area serves drinks and sweets as well as a selection of light meals.

3代目ご夫婦のセンスがあふれた和洋たくさんの種類の菓子が並び、選ぶのにとても悩みます。「でっち羊かん」もいいですが、通販で数か月待ちになっている「絹ごし抹茶ティラミス」を一乗寺到着後すぐに店内で頂きました。一乗寺訪問は「狸谷山不動院」の懸造り社殿を観に行くことが目的でしたが、250段の階段があり荷物を減らすため、帰りにまた店に戻って土産を買うことにしました。18時まで営業されているので八大神社...
Yatsuhashi-an&Shishu-yakata

4.0

5 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Ukyou-ku Nishikyougokunishikoromodechou 36

This hands-on workshop facility is in Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City. Guests can try their hand at making various sweets such as yatsuhashi (reservations required). Visit the free second floor Kyoshishu Museum to take in delicate and beautiful embroidery with different themes. There's also a Kyoto themed souvenir shop that's popular with tourists.

団体旅行で利用しました。バスで行きましたが、アクセスが悪く団体旅行専門といった感じです。お豆腐作り体験をしましたが、豆乳作りから豆腐までの本格的な体験で面白かったです。席が狭く、落ち着いてできなかったのは残念です。
Tawaraya Yoshitomi Main Store

4.0

13 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Kamigyo-ku Muromachi-dori Kamidachiuri Agaru

A confectioner that first opened in 1953 and now has three directly managed shops and six distributors across Kyoto City. They continue to make traditional Kyoto confections while striving ever further to create better treats searching for a candy enlightenment. One of the shops stand out confections is their Famous Kyoto Unryu treat. Each is made by hand with the finest large Tanba Dainagon red beans and shaped to represent a dragon riding atop a cloud. The flavor of the red beans and the gentle mouthfeel only possible with freshly made sweets makes for an exquisite harmony. Their dried candies and confections made to resemble the changing of the seasons are a treasure to be viewed and ideal for souvenirs or gifts.

改めて新しい口コミページを作る必要も無い程度の規模のお菓子屋さんなので、烏丸店のことだが、ここへ口コミする。結論から述べると暫くの間に随分と「後退」したと云うよりも、コロナ禍に合わせた店造り、商品造りの部分でこの宮内庁御用達の超々老舗の和菓子メーカーが後発のお菓子屋、元は暖簾分けした番頭の会社に後れを取っているように感じた。隣接する「京菓子資料館」なるものについても説明している職員さんは一生懸命か...
Mikuraya

4.0

2 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Kita-ku Shichikukitadaimoncho 78

This Japanese sweets shop was opened in 1947. They offer a wide array of treats, from their famous Tabiyakko cookies made with plentiful black sugar from Hateruma, to fresh sweets and yokan bean jelly, monaka filled wafers and warabi mochi jelly. Their flagship product Tabiyakko got their name from the idea of a travel (tabi) snack, and the name from a servant (yakko) for a procession of daimyo lords, and they have a soft, crumbly consistency. They're made with flour, eggs and sugar, and baked to create a texture somewhere between boro cookies and castella cake. Their goods make perfect gifts, especially when wrapped in their paper featuring designs from Nihonga painter Insho Domoto.

京都の御倉屋さんへ訪問。夕ばえと旅奴を買いました。どちらも美味しかったです。少し甘めです。また、行きたいです。
Kyoto Gion Anon (Main Shop)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Kiyomotochou 368-2

Anon has a long history of perfecting its techniques for making anko (sweet bean paste), and it uses this anko to develop new kinds of sweets. The store in, Kiyomoto-cho, Higashiyama Ward is located inside a remodeled machiya townhouse and includes a 29-seat eat-in space. It produces a wide range of Japanese-Western fusion sweets, including anpone, which takes grainy anko made with azuki beans from Tokachi in Hokkaido and a creamy filling made in-house from mascarpone cheese and combines them into a sort of sandwich.
Tsukimochi-ya Naomasa

4.0

17 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Kiyamachisanjou Crow

This venerable wagashi (Japanese sweet) shop was founded in 1804. First operating in a time when only fresh (not preserved) sweets could be made, the shop created baked sweets filled with sweet red bean paste and has continued to craft Kyoto treats in line with the times beloved by the masses. In addition to its titular geppei rice cakes, the shop offers a wide selection of fresh sweets. Particularly popular are its warabi-mochi cakes made with real warabi (bracken) starch; the sweet red bean paste, perfect with a cup of green tea, and the melt-in-your-mouth texture is exquisite. Sanjo Station is the closest station to the shop.

三条木屋町から高瀬川沿いに上がるとあるわらび餅の有名なお店です。購入しなくても風情のあるお店を拝見するだけでも話のタネになります。店内は米を蒸す匂いがします。和菓子は種類がたくさんあるので、迷います。今回はホテルの部屋で、夜食かデザートに食べようと思って行きました。結局、購入したのは、名物「わらび餅」になりました。「わらび餅」は、普通に想像するものとは違って、柔らかなお餅で餡を包んであります。餡は...
Shogoin Yatsuhashi Sohonten

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Shougoinsannouchou 6

"Situated a short distance west of the Shogoin Temple, this is the main shop of a long-standing yatsuhashi cinnamon rice flour confections shop which was established in 1689. Using choice cinnamon, rice flour, and other select ingredients, the shop slightly changes the balance of ingredients used in its recipes depending on seasonal conditions to ensure its yatsuhashi always have the same great taste. The shop also still uses mixing kettles made in the early Showa period, continuing to make its treats the old fashioned way by hand. In addition to the standard ""Shogoin Yatsuhashi,"" the shop sells raw yatsuhashi and a variety of seasonal yatsuhashi flavors. The shop also makes and sells new products such as the ""Kaneru,"" yatsuhashi curled up into churro-like sticks."
Yoshihiro

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Nishinokyohigashigekkocho 22

"A long-standing Japanese confectionary shop established in 1958 located a five-minute walk from Nijo Station. The shop has been featured on television and in a variety of magazines. Both the shop's yatsuhashi manju cinnamon rice flour confection buns, invented by the original owner; and its ""Kyoka"" buns stuffed with matcha powdered green tea bean jam, created by the second generation owner; have won awards in national confectionary competitions. The restaurant's handmade dorayaki pancake sandwiches are also a staple product; the popular Mont Blanc dorayaki are only available in fall. The shop also offers handmade Kyoto confectionary making classes where you can watch a master and try making your very own confection to bring home. Over 70 thousand people have participated in these popular classes."

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Its wooden tea houses, shuffling geisha, and spiritual sights have seen Kyoto hailed as the heart of traditional Japan, a world apart from ultramodern Tokyo. Despite being the Japanese capital for over a century, Kyoto escaped destruction during World War II, leaving behind a fascinating history which can be felt at every turn, from the fully gold-plated Kinkakuji Temple down to traditional customs such as geisha performances and tea ceremonies, which are still practiced to this day.