Japanese sweets hiyoko-an — Restaurant in Takayama

We saw a picture of pretty Japanese confectionery sweets and thought we wanted to try this. This shop does not disappoint. A very warm welcome from the owner, Kenichi Michida. When we entered, he was busy with another customer but didn't fail in welcoming us and giving us a seat with a small sample of the sweets he sold and tea to compliment the sweets. He carefully explained what ingredients the sweets contained. You could see he is passionate about what he does, and this comes back in the taste. It was amazing and we took some sweets with us. Totally, I can recommend getting the strawberry Mochi and, of course, his signature Sweet chick Mochi. The little chick was almost too cute to eat. But the taste was superb, soooo soft not to sweet! Perfect!

Also, we got ourselves another sweet to take home. Kenichi explained you can save this sweet until a month because it was vaccum sealed. However, when you open it, it's fresh for 1 week if you keep it refrigerated. He even gave us a free sweet on the go. It was a matcha pudding type of dessert , and I loved it 🥰

When we were about to leave, he asked us if we had lunch. When we said we didn't, he recommended a few places. It was great advice. When we come back to Takayama we will visit again!

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Was walking around randomly and came across this shop and saw this cute japanese mochi dessert and decided to give it a try, it was great! Never made a bad choice, we bought one to try, and after that another 2 more to take away, it simply tastes great . They use green beans instead of red beans which is really nice. The owner was really friendly and nice to, even served us 2 green tea when we took away our 1 mochi when the shop was closing. We then decided to buy 2 more for appreciation , we even decided to go next day to buy more like 10 maybe but the shop is closed! :( wish him all the best, and excellent and well friendly service guy...

Wonderful little sweet shop. Is in a complex of shops, almost missed it until i looked a bit harder so pay a little attention. Kenichi clearly cares very much about his craft and it shows. Got a complimentary tea (very tasty) and he have me some samples of his delicious daifuku mochi. The flavours are wonderful and seasonal, subtle, not overly sweet, excellent texture and the care taken with each dessert is clear. Kenichi speaks a little english, which is highly appreciated, im sorry i couldn't speak better Japanese to understand the full story of each sweet.

Highly recommend and you should go out of your way to go here if you are...