Sawadaya Tsumago-juku Store (Chokane)

This is the Tsumago-juku branch of Sawadaya, a Japanese sweets shop located in Tsumago-juku in Nagiso Town, Kiso County, Nagano Prefecture. Using the finest chestnuts, Kisoji’s Junkuri Gashi and Kuri Kinton, locked in with a natural taste without compromising the aroma or flavor by the hands of Japanese sweets craftspeople, are popular products. In addition, they also have products such as “Tsumago no Aki: Kaki to Kuri” that is kuri kinton packed with the finest dried persimmons, soba buckwheat manju (red bean paste-filled steamed cakes) rich with flavor and using domestic ingredients, and the traditional Japanese sweet hoba-maki of rice flour and bean paste steam in hand-picked magnolia leaves.