Enjoy the Specialty Sweets Sold at Nakamise Shopping Street

Kimura-ya Honten, a ningyoyaki shop founded in the Edo period with over 150 years of history

 

Multiple shops selling various goods and delicacies line Nakamise Shopping Street, which connects the main hall of Sensōji Temple with the Kaminarimon Gate. A highly recommended shop is Kimura-ya Honten, which sells ningyoyaki, a soft cake filled with sweet red bean paste. As the key specialty of Asakusa, the ningyoyaki is sold by many different shops in the area, but Kimura-ya is considered to be the pioneer of ningyoyaki, which reflects it old origins that go all the way back to the Edo period.

The ningyoyaki souvenir set from Kimura-ya Honten

 

The best-selling item from the shop is the souvenir set, comprising of a lovely box that contains four kinds of ningyoyaki modelled after Asakusa’s most well-known symbols. The ningyoyaki are made using just a few simple ingredients – wheat flour, eggs, sugar and honey. The soft and fluffy texture of the cake makes a perfect match with the moist and mildly sweet red bean paste!

Ningyoyaki filled with smooth red bean paste. The “Matcha Dainagon Ningyoyaki,” which consists of matcha-flavored cake filled with matcha-flavored bean paste, is also available