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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.

Nakajima Shoten (中島商店)

Nakajima Shoten, located in Fukuyama City, is the only sugar specialty store in Fukuyama. While wholesaling sugar and other seasonings to local patisseries and restaurants, they also sell a famous candy named “Homei-dama,” which is a candy made from sake lees and Homei-shu, a specialty of Tomonoura in Fukuyama. The essence of Homei-shu, made by pickling 16 kinds of herbs, is condensed into one candy ball for a sweet treat.

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Nakashima Shoten sells Homei-dama, a candy that is popular among people of all ages as an easy way to take in herbs that are good for the body. The candy balls are made from a combination of carefully selected sake lees and Homei-shu, an herbal drink which has been loved in Fukuyama for hundreds of years, in a perfect balance. Although the candy balls are made from sake lees, they do not contain alcohol, making them a perfect gift for children.