Eirakuya Honten

A well-​established confectionery shop standing in the first-​class location, Eirakuya. When I walked popular Shijyo Kawaramachi area, I always pass through this shop. An excellent wooden signboard and golden beautiful letters tell me its pride of classy shop. Arranged flowers and season articles are displayed in the front glass show booth elegantly, and everyone knows that it is an excellent shop with a long history.
It is rare for the shop to provide both sweets (Japanese sweets such as the yokan) and something hot (shiitake kombu, miso, Obanzai or Japanese delis). Both match Japanese tea well.
But I have never bought the foods boiled down in soy because I am not good at them. If anything, I choose these high-​quality products as a present to the people who have taken care of me. To tell the truth, I like popular rice cakes containing bean jam wrapped in an oak leaf or the bean paste rice-​cake wrapped in a cherry leaf much more. I have had Monaka or bean-​jam-​filled wafers here, which was very unique. Monaka usually is sold in the condition of a pair of wafers sandwiching sweet bean jam. Here it is different. A pair of wafers and bean jam is wrapped separately. So the person who eats the Monaka has to sandwich the bean jams with a pair of wafers. So he or she can use the portions of bean jams as he or she likes. The person who does not like sweets seems to make half of the bean jam, but I have used all of it.
Higashi or Japanese dry confectionery is made elaborately in the shape of seasonal objects. I respect Japanese patisserie’s artistic works. When I want to have a high-​quality thing, it is a recommended shop.