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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.

Sakuraya Snack Warehouse (お菓子の蔵さくらや)

Sakuraya Snack Warehouse (Okashi-no-kura Sakuraya as it is known in Japanese) is a Japanese sweets shop located in Saijo, Higashihiroshima City. The store sells elegantly sweet Japanese confections such as “barrel monaka” and “bottle monaka,” in which sake lees and sake are mixed into the bean jam, and “Saijo Sakagura Dori,” in which sake is kneaded into the dough. They also sell sponge cakes with honey, and Western-style baked goods such as “Spica-chan Tamago Senbei” (egg crackers), part of the proceeds of which are donated to animal welfare activities.

Moment of Joy

At Sakuraya Snack Warehouse, you can buy delicious Japanese sweets made from sake and sake lees. The most popular wagashi (Japanese sweet) is the “Tarumonaka,” a barrel-shaped monaka filled with red bean paste. You can choose from two types: coarsely-mashed bean paste made with Dainagon azuki beans from Hokkaido, or white bean paste mixed with sake lees and sake. This is a delicious Japanese snack that can be enjoyed by people who don’t like sake as well as children who can’t drink sake.