Asakusa Umezono Asakusa Main Store

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This long-established store has passed down its tradition as a specialty store for sweets such as awazenzai (steamed millet and rice cake with strained bean paste) since its establishment in 1854. The tea house started in a corner of Umezonoin Temple, and the name Umezono is derived from this. Umezono is distinctive for using glutinous millet instead of foxtail millet for the rice cakes in their awazenzai. The flavor combines the subtle bitterness of the millet and the sweetness of the sweetened bean paste for a classic Asakusa specialty that remains unchanged. Besides cafe menu items such as oshiruko (sweet red bean soup) and anmitsu (desert with agar-agar, fruit, sweet red bean paste, etc.), it also sells mame daifuku (bean rice cake) and kintsuba (sweet red bean paste wrapped in thin flour dough).

Spot details

Address: Tokyo Taito-ku Asakusa 1-31-12 Map
Area: Asakusa Area
Phone: 0338417580
Hours: [Weekday]10:00-17:00(L.O.16:30)
[SaturdaySundayPublic holiday]10:00-18:00(L.O.17:30)
Closed: Wednesday, Irregular holidays
Parking Lot: Not available
Credit Card: Not available
Smoking: Not available
Wi-Fi: Not available
Average budget: [Lunch] 1-1,000 yen
[Night] 1-1,000 yen
Estimated stay time: 0-30 minutes

Information Sources: NAVITIME JAPAN

Review

Japanese mochi desserts

Reviewed : 2019.01.09

This dessert stop was recommended to us and near our ryokan so we stopped by. There is no English menu so we basically had to look outside at the replica food display and point. You had to pay first...
Great place for sweet deserts!

Reviewed : 2017.09.04

This is my second time eating here and it does not disappoint. The deserts are traditional Japanese with jelly, red bean paste, fruits and ice cream. It was the perfect way to cap off our day in...
Lovely desserts!

Reviewed : 2017.01.18

Lovely Japanese desserts, I had glutineous rice balls and red beans, I liked the sweetness, it was mellow. Would go there again.