Kyoto city is also famous for its delightful and quality Matcha products. There are hundreds of cafes teahouses in Kyoto where you can enjoy delicious and authentic Matcha drink/desserts. Matcha flavored sweets are also massively popular, and it’s a part of the trip to get some pleasant souvenirs before ending your journey in Kyoto. Matcha has previously become the number one souvenir choice for thousands of people. No problem if it is matcha cookies, cake, or tea; all are going into the tourists’ shopping bags. There are many famous matcha stores in Kyoto; many of them have been selling Matcha from hundreds of years.
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Otabe’s matcha sweets
Otabe can be found in Kyoto Station, and they sell different souvenirs that use Matcha in them. This matcha baumkuchen spit cake is an extremely famous one, and it has just the right quantity of Matcha and sweetness. This matcha baumkuchen is superb for those who like Matcha.
Tsujiri no Sato by Gion Tsujiri
Gion Tsujiri is one of the famous traditional tea houses in Japan, with over 140 years of history, and it’s renowned that people line up to buy sweets very often. Their hottest top-selling product is Tsujiri no Sato, which crispy thin rolled cookie which is filled with rich Matcha cream.
Karinto from Amenbodo
Amenbodo is a store located classified a 100-year-old townhouse that specifies in “karinto,” which are a traditional sweet made by a deep-frying kneaded wheat flour in oil and then cover it with sugar and its healthy to use white or brown sugar, but this particular store has over 20 different toppings, reaching from the standards to more unique offerings. Some of their lineups cover Japanese flavors, such as the Yukinko that adds the fullness of soy sauce to the excellent level sweetness of sugar; the Wasabi, whose unusual spiciness and faint sweetness will leave you hungry for more; and the Hachimitsu Matcha, which is famous for its matcha odor and gentle honey sweetness.
Crochet’s colorful Kyoto candy
This sweet is made by Crochet, a farm store that has been making candies for over 150 years. It goals to sell “new Kyoto candies” made with the traditional practices of Kyoto’s craftsmen and beauty-refining abilities developed in Europe. They have these candies in a variation of colors sitting within a clear case, and just looking at their beauty will leave you amazed. Each one has its name. Let take an example; there’s Shiraginu Temari, a lemon-flavored candy that states celebration and honor through its shiny hue and silky whiteness, and Shion – a brown sugar candy that was made up in the colors of a classic kimono. Besides their normal-sized offerings, they also sell much more reasonable, smaller-sized sweets.
Kyokanze from Tsuruya-Yoshinobu
The sweets from Tsuruyua-Yoshinobu is a long-time Japanese sweet that has its head office in Nishijin, are also reasonably very famous. Their product is the Kyokanze, made by hand-rolling composed ogurakan which have blocks of yokan firmed and the mixture of agar-agar and sweet bean paste with slices of caramelized adzuki beans and murasame a steamed mixture of rice flour and sweet bean paste. Savor the powdery texture of the murasame and the moistness of the Ogura caramelized sweet bean paste made by softly boiling Dainagon adzuki beans or white adzuki beans, Apart from individually-packaged ones, and some varieties can be divided into pieces.