“Wagashi” is a Japanese sweet. There are many shops and souvenirs of Wagashi in Asakusa, There are various kinds of Japanese sweets. using Anko (bean paste), fried salty sweets, made by tofu.so let’s find the taste you like.
Wagashi using bean paste
What is Anko sweet bean paste. There are various sweets using Anko.Dorayaki, Anmitsu, Manju etc, surely you will find your favorite.
Awazenzai of Umezono
Zenzai is a sweet boiled azuki bean with chestnuts and rice cakes. In Umezono millet Zenzai is popular.Old fashioned millet, rich and delicious Anko. Natural sweetness is delicious, it is a Japanese sweet perfect for green tea. Because it is near Asakusa Temple, it is perfect for sightseeing.
Dorayaki of Kameju
It is in front of the Kaminarimon in Asakusa Kameju. If you eat here Dorayaki, it is tasty enough that you will not want other Dorayaki.
Dorayaki is sandwiched in Japanese small hot cakes. Kameju’s dorayaki is puffy and it is very big! Very popular and sold out soon, so let’s buy it by noon.
Kintsuba of Tokutaro
Tokutaro is an old Japanese confection shop located behind the Asakusa Temple. Since 1903, it is a shop that continues to make Japanese sweets using homemade Anko.
There are various Japanese sweets, especially recommended is Kintsuba. Kindba is baked with flour around the consolidated bean paste. In Tokutaro, home-made Anko using high-quality red beans from Hokkaido, you can eat thin skin, low-sweetness Kintsuba.
Traditional Edo sweets: Asakusa Umegen
It is “Asakusa Umegen” behind Asakusa Kappabashi-dori.
100 years ago, “Umegen” make traditional Edo Japanese sweets, without using any machines, made by craftsmen.
Using the red bean from Hokkaido which is indispensable for Japanese confectionery, care very much about each ingredients and taste.Kintsuba and sweets like Azuki such as “Amanatto” which dried Azuki with sugar are also recommended, but sweet potatoes are also popular.Recommended by Aburi Imo. It is one which lightly baked sweet potatoes marinated in honey. There are rare items that can only be purchased by reservation. It marinated and dried grated honey with rounded Anko called “Ishigoromo”, it looks like a pebble sweet. It takes a week to make, reservation essential sweets.
Takoshougetsu Kashihowhite: Anko using White pea bean is attractive.
“Takoshougetsu” started as a peddler of Anko Mochi in the Edo period, and since 1882 he set up a present store near Tahara-cho. Tako Monaka (octopus monaka) and Tako Manju (octopedic manju) are the main products. It is not really the octopus contained in the Edo era, it is the beginning that it was said “octopus like texture!”
The inside of Tako Monaka is an anko of White pea bean from Hokkaido. In the world of Japanese sweets, until now there has been no such foods. Tasty skin and elegant sweetness Anko, it is a wonderful Japanese sweet.
Ningyoyaki of Kameya
Ningyo-yaki is a sweet baked with paste in Kasutera (sponge cake.). It is famous for Tokyo’s specialty and souvenir.
If it is really delicious Ningyoyaki Kameya is recommended. Kameya uses nice food ingredients, handmade one by one with old-fashioned recipes. Azuki from Hokkaido is a delicious sweetness and tasty, crispy skin.
The craftsman is making it by hand, in front of me. Not only taste, atmosphere is wonderful.
By the way, it is not fresh but when you eat the next day it will be a different good taste, so let’s try it.
Japanese sweets using potato
There are many sweets using potatoes in Japan.Lower the sweetness than Anko, enjoy the natural flavor.
Daigakuimo of Asakusa’s “Chiba-ya”
“Daigakuimo” is a popular Japanese sweet shop, Chibaya. It is a shop behind Asakusa Temple. “Daigakuimo” is marinated with fried sweet potato with honey. Chibaya can eat freshly made “Daigakuimo”.Chopped potato “Daigakuimo”, and thinly sliced ??”Kiriage” is also popular.
Delicious sweet potato of Mangando
Mangando famous for sweet potato. There are two stores in Orange Street Main Store and Asakusa Store, both located near Asakusa Temple. Mangando’s popular item that is taken up in magazines and on TV is “Imokin”. It is Kintsuba using potato.
Kinbibusa using carefully selected sweet potatoes is perfect for eating as well as a souvenir. It should surely be fascinated by sweet potato scent.
Japanese sweets using Rice
Japanese staple food, rice. Rice is used not only for staple food but also for sweets. For example, Mochi is pound steamed sticky rice.Mochi can be eaten often in New Year, besides that it is used for sweets.
Old fashioned delicious rice dumpling of Momotaro.
Momotaro is a Dango shop in Asakusa’s international street. What is Dango rice dumpling. Dango eats with anko or salty-sweet taste sauce.There are Daifuku, Youkan, etc. at this store, but I want you to try baked dumplings.It’s soft and chewy, roasting soy sauce flavor. Dumplings that become addictive are also recommended for those who do not like sweet taste.
Kikuya’s Mitarashi Dango is a must eat.
Kikuzuya of Daifuku and dumplings in Nakamise Street. The most popular of Kikuya is Mitarashi dumplings. Mitarashi is a sauce boiled with soy sauce and sugar. Dumplings are soft and chewy, Sweet and salty sauce, it is very delicious.There are foods feel the seasons, In the summer, “Mizuyoukan (Azuki-Bean Jelly)” and “Kuzukiri (Kudzu Starch Noodles)”, In the winter “Oshiruko (Hot Azuki Soup)”.
Tokyo specialty, Tokiwado Kaminari Okoshi Honpo
Next to Kaminarimon Tokiwado Kaminari Okoshi Honpo. Kaminari Okoshi is a sweet roasted rice and hardened with sugar.The staff make Kaminari Okoshi on the store, and you can eat the freshly made.
“Kaminarimon Observation Dining Hall” on the second floor is a meal and a sweet cafe, so you can take a break while watching the Kaminarimon.
Dumplings at Kaede eat right then
Kaede is a Japanese sweet shop near Hoppy Street. Dumplings made with carefully selected domestic rice flour 100% are popular. There are various kinds of dumplings, but recommendation is Mitarashi dumpling.Dango is a good scent, sweet salty sauce of secret secret is delicious. The texture of freshly baked dumplings is not only soft, but a little crispy. Weekend-only Ginpei rice cake (baked miso dango) etc. There are also some, so let’s try it.
Okaki of Kineya
Kineya is one of the shop in Nakamise Street that has so many shop. Kineya’s Okaki is especially famous souvenirs.Okaki is a sweet fried glutinous rice. It is similar to rice crackers, but rice to use is different.There are salt taste and soy sauce taste in Kinoya. Also, at the shop, just fried, there is Okaki of crispy so let’s try it.
Bean confectionery in Asakusa
Jananese often eat soybeans. Edamame, tofu, natto, soy sauce. And beans are also used for sweets. It is a healthy sweetness in Japan.
Nakatsuka-Shouten’s rustic bean confectionery
Nakatsuka shop, a shop of bean confectionery near Tahara-cho station. Bean confectionery is a simple sweet roasted beans and tasted with salt. About 45 types of bean confectionery are lining in the case of the wooden box. The beans used in the Setsubun festival at Asakusa Shrine are beans of this Nakatsuka shop.
Bean confectionery of Mameho Bairindo
“Mameho Bairindo” in Nakamise shopping area. Various kinds of bean confectionery are displayed in the shop. Beans are perfect for green tea and drink.Not only simple roasted beans such as salty taste, but also various tastes such as wasabi and curry. Let’s find the taste of your choice. It may be a recommended souvenir for those who are not good at sweet things.
https://asakusakanko.com/bairindo/
Other Japanese Sweets
Besides rice and red beans’ sweets, there are many sweets in Japan.
Karintino of Kozakura
Karint? is a Japanese sweet fried flour and starch syrup. Many types are sweet and seasoned with brown sugar.
Speaking about best Karintou in Tokyo, “Karintou Tachibana” in Ginza, “Yushima Kagetsu” in Yushima, and “Karint? Kozakura” in Asakusa.
A souvenir that I thought was thought by Asakusa restaurant “Fukushima”. That is the origin of Asakusa “Karintou Kozakura”.
It is elegant sweetness, a crisp texture of texture. There are variations of taste, such as black sugar, Kinako (roasted soybean flour), maple, cherry blossom, so let’s try it. Because Sunday is closed, be careful when you visit on weekends.
Suzukien’s rich green tea gelato.
Suzukien on the back of Asakusa Temple is a shop where you can get Matcha gelato made by Matcha specialty store.
The reason that this shop is popular is the strength of Matcha that can be chosen in 7 stages. Number 1 is a general taste, number 7 is the taste 1st deep. There is even bitterness that number 7 seems to be eating tea leaves, so you can not eat it at other stores. Holiday is crowded, but it is worthwhile lining up waiting.
Monaka ice cream of Asakusa Chouchin Monaka
“Asakusa Chouchin Monaka” is located on Nakamise Street in Asakusa-ji. Monaka is a sweet sandwiching bean paste on a skin baked with thin Rice flour.”Monaka ice cream” is sandwiched between ice cream instead of anko. It is perfect for a break during the summer sightseeing. Ice is rich vanilla, red beans, green tea, Beniimo, black sesame seeds, coconut, and flavors such as chocolate chip. The price is reasonable at 300 yen.
