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Traditional sweets in Noda city
This is a lovely regional sweets shop, hidden in the side streets of Noda city. It is probably one of those places you will only find if you know exactly where it is or if you have a lot of time to aimlessly wander around the city. But if you find yourself around Atago station with a bit of time on your hands, it is well worth a visit. They have a great range of delicious looking sweets including flavoured mochi, little pastries filled with sweet bean paste and seasonal sweets in different shapes like flowers, animals or even samurai helmets. They also have incredible sculptures made from sugar in the shop that look awfully realistic.
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on Sep 5
Handcrafted wagashi sweets
Wagashi, or Japanese sweets, are beautiful, delicately flavored confections that can be appreciated with the eyes as nuch as the taste buds. Kikuya is one of the few high quality independent (as opposed to chain) shops outside of Tokyo. Kikuya's current sweets include immature persimmon. In the next few weeks, the confectioners will gradually make bigger, riper ones. The persimmon line of sweets ends in four weeks when Kikuya's craftspeople will display overripe, slightly bruised looking sweets to say goodbye to the harvest. Two kinds of dorayaki, pancakes with bean paste between, come in wrappers that have the history of Noda City and celebrations of seasons. Kikuya is also noted for Nodakko sweets which commemorate the children's song "Kagome Kagome", which is said to have originated in Noda. The display case dioramas and birds are all crafted from sugar. They're true to life. Have a look. HOW TO GET THERE: From Atago Station on the Tobu Urban Park Line, walk about 6 minutes west. You will see a 喜久屋 sign post on Nagareyama Highway. Kikuya is in a side street just to the west of the highway.
Kanuba
on Apr 16