Japanese Confectionery Spots in Amami / Okinoerabu Island Area

  • Harukaze Do
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Amami-shi Nazekusatocho 2-16
  • Tahara Confectionary
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Setouchicho Koniya Matsue 12-8
    A venerable confectionary founded 60 years ago in a town in the southern part of Amami Oshima Island. It began when the founder, who was once a confectioner in Nagoya, used brown sugar from Setouchi to manufacture brown sugar Karinto (a deep-fried snack food made with brown sugar, flour, and yeast). The present owner is from the third generation of his family to operate this shop. Although the shop once made and sold all kinds of confections, it now produces brown sugar Karinto exclusively. The shop opens at 11:30 a.m., but its product is so popular that it is sometimes sold out shortly after noon. Since this Karinto is made with high-quality brown sugar from the neighboring island of Kakeroma and is made by hand according to traditional methods, it makes a fine souvenir of Amami Oshima Island.
  • Shogetsu Do
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Amami-shi
  • Saigo Matsu Crackers
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    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Tatsugocho Kuba 886

    店舗に行ったわけでなく、商品についての口コミです。宿泊したホテルのウェストコート奄美近くにあった123マート奄美入船店で「西郷松せんべい」を購入しました。昔懐かしい味で食べやすいせんべいでした。あっという間に小袋ですが食べ切りました。

  • Crepe To Taiyaki no A-Ru
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Amami-shi Naze Suehirocho 16-6

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Over 100 active volcanoes across Kagoshima make it one of the Japan's most exciting prefectures. The prefectural capital, Kagoshima city, looks out to one of the prefecture’s most spectacular volcanoes, Sakurajima, an island of its own that can be visited and seen close up or admired from afar, with the promise of breathtaking sunsets complete with frequent puffs of smoke and ash. Down the Satsuma Peninsula, the most southerly part of mainland Japan, waterfalls, sand onsen, and fascinating history await, while Kagoshima's abundance of satsuma imo (sweet potato) provide a wholesome snack as well as one of Japan's favourite drinks - shochu.

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