Morihachi Main Store — Restaurant in Kanazawa

Quite expensive. More of a gift shop as the sweets come in beautiful packaging/boxes. There is a cafe upstairs and a small museum with a 200yen entry fee. The cafe items are coffee/tea with a sweet for 1000yen. If wanting to try the sweets only, it will be better to spend the 1000yen on individual sweets from the main shop below. The majority of the sweets however are only sold in gift boxes so can't be purchased individually. Hopefully they can make a special variety box for the greedy foodie to gift himself with lower price for no presentation box/wrappers as it will end up in the bin anyway. The sweets are quite different from convenience store bought mainly in terms of texture. I unfortunately do not read Japanese so everything came as a delightful surprise instead. The sweets are mostly...

Amazing collections of Japanese high quality sweets are available here. It's pity that matcha green tea is now well know in a lot of places worldwide, but sweets that are associated with such a drink may not be necessarily known. Here, sweets as well as rice crackers and other local specialties that go well with green tea are all available. You can enjoy both tastes and decorations, which is consistent with a traditional Japanese way of enjoying past times. These specialties are something very hard to discover...

Had some desserts here with our guide from Magical Tours. We had their soft wagashi with matcha. The sweets were soft and delicate and the matcha had just the right balance of bitterness.

This shop is also apparently special. It's been around for 400 years and this year is their 400th anniversary. They also have a small museum where you can check out wooden molds and tools they’ve been using...