Japanese Confectionery Spots in Hyogo Area

  • Kineya Sohonten
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Kobe-shi Tarumi-ku Kandacho 4-7
    A Japanese confectionery on the shopping street right near Sanyo Tarumi Station. Since its establishment in 1905, they have made Japanese sweets with safe and reliably good domestic ingredients. Their handmade Hiraiso Monaka treats are a local favorite made one by one by hand-filling monaka dough with mashed bean paste, smooth bean paste, and yuzu citrus jams. The treats can be purchased individually and make an ideal Tarumi souvenir. Other well received sweets include their seasonal fresh confections that delight the senses; steamed confections with a perfect balance of soft crust and moist red bean jam; and baked sweets made with their special bean jam wrapped in a carefully prepared dough.
  • Tokiwado
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Kobe-shi Higashinada-ku Mikagenakamachi 4-8-22
    "This venerable Japanese confectionary established in 1868 is located near an elevated JR railway about a 10-minute walk from Hanshin Mikage Station. The shop continues to create sweets using traditional techniques and the finest ingredients. The shop's flagship product is their Setsugetsuka monaka, which feature a filling of carefully-kneaded choice Bicchu Dainagon azuki beans inside of two hand-roasted wafers. The wafer cakes, which have won numerous prizes including the Honorary President Prize at the National Confectionary Exposition, are a tradition beloved for their delicious flavor since the shop's establishment. Setsugetsuka, which means ""snow, moon, and flowers,"" is a phrase that emotionally expresses the changing of the seasons."

    おもたせで頂きました。上生菓子は、物によって賞味期限が異なります。黒豆のお大福は丹波黒豆を使っており、おちゃとよくあいました。

  • Shogetsudo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Nishinomiya-shi Koshienguchi 2-4-33
    This Japanese confectionery store was established in 1926. It sells Japanese confections each made with care by a craftsman with a first-class confection technician license. Especially popular is their line of Fruit Daifuku, which includes their Fruit Tomato Daifuku, Pione Daifuku, and Peach Daifuku. Each features a seasonal fruit covered in a thin layer of rice cake. Also popular are the shop's Koshien-themed souvenirs. This includes their Koshien Torayaki, a fluffy baked dorayaki stuffed with bean paste made with large Tamba adzuki beans, as well as their Koshien Sunamochi, which represent the sand from the field of Koshien Stadium.
  • Kikyoudou
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Nishinomiya-shi Koshien Nibancho 1-16
    This Japanese confection shop is located just next to the Kami-Koshien Intersection. It has continued to make Japanese confections with choice ingredients using both traditional and novel techniques since first opening in 1945. Their hiyashi shiratama shiruko, a chilled white flour dumpling and red bean soup made with Bitchu adzuki beans, boasts a refined sweetness and a gentle potage-like taste. The shop sells as many as 2,000 servings of this famous confection on busy days. It has even been selected to be listed on Chisan Chisho Nishinomiya, a website dedicated to invigorating the city and making it products famous across the country. The shop's baseball-shaped Kyuen wafer cakes, which feature a filling of strained adzuki paste containing chestnut and sesame, make great Koshien souvenirs.
  • Kohaku
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    4.5
    13 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Nishinomiya-shi Minamikoshikiiwacho 15-12
    This Japanese confectionary shop is located about a five-minute walk from Hankyu Kurakuenguchi Station. The shop, which is notable for its simple and beautiful exterior, offers fine Japanese confections with a modern sensibility. Their most popular item is their Ichigo Daifuku, which feature a whole Amao Deluxe strawberry coated in white bean paste and wrapped in rice cake. The refined white bean paste truly brings out the sweet and sour flavor of the juicy strawberry. Their jiggly warabi mochi (jelly-like confection made from warabi bracken starch), meanwhile, are sold uncut so that the customer can cut them their desired size. The confection is beloved by people of all ages for its subtle sweetness.

    わらび餅のかき氷が人気です。わらび餅のかき氷は見た目はあまりよくありませんが、大変おいしいです。最初の一口を食べた瞬間に思わずおいしいとうなってしまいました。

  • Tomoeya (Main Store) Otemon Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Ako-shi
    This kanmidokoro (cafe featuring Japanese-style sweets) sits in front of the main gate of Ako Castle. The shop, which is located inside of an old-fashioned townhouse evocative of the Genroku period (1688-1704), serves traditional Japanese sweets, zenzai (sweet adzuki bean soup), soba noodles, and more. Their Shiomi Manju buns are a traditional sweet featuring a filling of moderately-sweet strained adzuki bean paste from Hokkaido flavored with a salty accent gently wrapped with a pastry covering. The salt used is Amashio salt from Ako, a city famous for salt production. The wrapper bears the same twofold tomoe symbol as the family crest of Oishi Kuranosuke. The shop is best known for its Shio Fukumi, a confection that features a filling of strained bean paste subtly accented with Ako salt sandwiched between two fragrantly-roasted rice wafers. Also popular is their Shio Fukumi Matcha, a variant featuring a filling flavored with richly fragrant Uji green tea.
  • Horaido
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Awaji-shi Ei 2851
    "A long-established Japanese confectionery established in 1861, this store is known for its popular signature product, Mawari-benten, a sake bun made using a method that has remained unchanged since its founding, with a mildly sweet filling of koshi-an (sweet bean paste) in a sour dough. The shop also offers seasonal sweets such as ""Daifuku with strawberries"" and other seasonal sweets for Halloween and Christmas."
  • Kinjo Hinode Ame Honpo
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Amagasaki-shi Kaimeicho 1-36
    Hinode Mizuame, a long-established candy shop established in the early Meiji period (1868-1912), is made from the finest glutinous rice produced in Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture. Because it is made only from rice, it is safe for people with allergies and babies, and it is also used as a secret ingredient in cooking.

    老舗の飴屋さん。 瓶入りの水飴はお米100%で保存料などの添加物は一切入っていない。優しい味です。 有名な女性歌手を始め声を大切にする芸能人が多く愛用されているとか?

  • Saikaen Main Shop
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Amagasaki-shi Ohamacho 3-24-18
    The most distinctive feature of this confectionery is that it uses homemade red bean paste that is carefully selected not only in terms of the type of azuki beans used, but also in terms of the way it is cooked. The shop also produces famous confections such as Chikamatsu Monogatari and Meigetsuhime, both based on local stories, as well as Yume Dora and Takarazuka Chocolat, a raw chocolate wrapped in a rice cake and covered with cocoa powder, which are also very popular.
  • Iseya Honten
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    3.5
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Himeji-shi Nishinikaimachi 84
    The shop is located in the Nishi-Nikaicho shopping district, west of the northwest intersection of Yamatoyashiki, and has four directly managed stores in Himeji City and other stores mainly in the Kansai region. The shop also sells other sweets named after people associated with Himeji, such as Princess Sen Hime and Kambei Kuroda.

    アーケード街の中になる店舗で、地元の人以外は一寸分かり辛い場所でした。店内に並ぶ商品はどこも同じで、今回は柏餅を購入しました。つぶあんとこしあんの両方が並び好みの商品を選択出来るようになっていました。

  • Ogawado Akikuni Himeji Sanyo Department Shop
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Himeji-shi Minamimachi
    Located on the basement floor of the Himeji Sanyo Department Store, just a 1-minute walk from Himeji Station, this Japanese confectionary shop produces and sells a variety of Harima's famous confections that have won numerous awards, including the Honorary Craft Grand Prize and the Spring Order of Decoration. The small size is engraved with the hollyhock crest of Sen Hime, the daughter of Hidetada Tokugawa, the second shogun of the Edo Shogunate, who married into the Himeji family.
  • Amaneya
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyougo Pref. Himejishi Hirohata-ku Kamada 5-200

    姫路有数の和菓子屋。 和菓子屋、と括ってしまうのは勿体ない気もするような創作和菓子は、西播磨でも有数のお店でしょう。 見せ方も上手で、手土産にも適しています。自分で食べてよし、手土産で召し上がって戴いてもよし。オススメです。

  • Nagate Choei Do Horihata Main Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Sumoto-shi Honmachi 5-chome 3-26
  • Mochikichi Himeji
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Himeji-shi Shikama-ku Miyake 1-195
  • Mochikichi Kobe Nishi
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Kobe-shi Nishi-ku Ikawadanicho Junna 846-ban 1

    おかきの専門店です。駐車場が広くて止めやすいです。一袋にひとくちサイズのおかきが8種類入っている、てのひら日記がオススメです。

  • Mochikichi Nishinomiya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Nishinomiya-shi Nakasusacho 8-25
  • Mochikichi Kakogawa
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Kakogawa-shi Noguchicho Sakamoto 574-3
  • Mochikichi Kobe Tarumi
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    3.0
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Kobe-shi Tarumi-ku Myodanicho 2282-4

    種類が多く、色んなものを組み合わせてお土産にするのに手頃で使い勝手がいいお店です。 味も悪くないですよ。

  • Mochikichi Itami
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    3.0
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Itami-shi Koya Higashi 4-1-24

    和菓子屋さんです。煎餅やおかきが美味しいとひょうばんのみせですが、抹茶アイスを買いました。綺麗な深緑色が綺麗です。

  • Shizu Ya AEON MALL Itami Koya
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Itami-shi Ikejiri 4-1-1 AEON MALL Itami Koya 3F

    たまに駄菓子を買います。懐かしい駄菓子がたくさんあって、ウキウキして色々買ってしまいます。いつも子どもから大人までいっぱい。接客がちょっと残念に感じることが多いですが、楽しく安いお菓子が色々買えるのは嬉しい!

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Hyogo prefecture stretches from the north coast to the south coast on the western end of the popular Kansai region, encompassing verdant mountains, urban beaches, and fantastic historical sights. The prefecture’s main attractions lie along the south coast at Kobe, the prefectural capital, a pretty harbor city best known for its production of the renowned Kobe beef, and Himeji, the home of Himeji Castle, one of the country’s most beautifully preserved feudal castles, perched magically atop a hill.

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