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Snacks & Food Gifts

Looking for Hiroshima snacks to take home? Our staff put on pounds tasting Hiroshima snacks and specialty products from Fukuyama to Miyajima. Grab bottles of sake from breweries founded in the 1800s. Replace the Kikkoman in your cupboard with Hiroshima craft soy sauces. Step into snack emporiums with nostalgic treats from around the country. Our snack and food gifts directory is your seasonal catalogue to a better stocked kitchen and grateful friends.

Kobokudo (香木堂)

Kobokudo is a specialty store that sells a variety of karinto. Karinto is a Japanese confection similar to the Spanish pesteño, made by deep-frying a dough made of flour, covering it with honey, and drying it. In addition to the standard flavors such as green tea and kinako (soybean flour), you can also buy karinto with unique Hiroshima flavors such as oyster, Hiroshima-na (Hiroshima greens, a local vegetable), and sake lees. Sake lees karinto is made from various brands of Japanese sake produced in Saijo.

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The charm of Kobokudo is the wide variety of flavors of its karinto. Many of the flavors are made with products sourced from Hiroshima Prefecture and Saijo sake, and are popular as souvenirs during trips to Hiroshima. The most popular product is “Hiroshima Karinto Monogatari,” an assortment of nine types of karinto with flavors from Hiroshima: oysters, Hiroshima greens, sesame, wild sesame, burdock root, soybean flour, bamboo charcoal, lemon, and chirimenjako (dried sardines), all made from ingredients grown in Hiroshima.