Toge no Chikara Mochi (Yonezawa Store)

Just a three-minute walk from the JR Yonezawa Station, this Japanese confectionery store is a franchise of the main store, well-known for vending at the Touge-eki station on the JR Ou Line. Their specialty, Tougeno-chikaramochi envelopes sweet bean paste with freshly kneaded mochi, and is a popular item sold in the Yamagata bullet train. They also sell a type of daifuku sweet, anbin, awamochi with bean paste, and dango-mochi with four different types of sauce, like miso dengaku. The shop only uses sticky mochi rice, himenomochi, produced in Yamagata prefecture. To preserve the soft texture, it is recommended that the confections be eaten on the same day.