Kasugai Kuro Ame Black Sugar Candy (春日井 黒あめ, 110g Bag) — Okinawan Brown Sugar Hard Candy [2026 Guide for International Readers]
Kasugai Seika, a confectioner founded in Nagoya in 1928, has made Kuro Ame since 1980. The current 110g…
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Nachiguro Sohonpo Black-Sugar Candy (那智黒, individually wrapped bag) — Kumano’s pilgrimage drop named for the polished black stone of Nachi [2026 Guide for International Readers]
On the Kii Peninsula, where the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes converge on Nachi Falls, a small hard candy…
Maeda Seika Habutae Mochi (羽二重餅, individually wrapped box) — Fukui’s Silk-Weaving Capital Rendered as a Soft Rice Confection [2026 Guide for International Readers]
Fukui spent the Meiji era as Japan's silk-weaving capital. Its signature cloth, habutae, was a plain-weave silk so…
Kamejirushi Yoshiwara Denchu (吉原殿中, individually wrapped stick assortment box) — Mito’s Edo-era kinako-dusted puffed-rice candy born in the Tokugawa castle’s inner chambers [2026 Guide for International Readers]
Yoshiwara Denchu is one of the few Japanese confections whose name still points at the room it was…
Oyaya Takaoka Ramune (大野屋 高岡ラムネ, boxed assortment of hand-molded pressed-sugar candies) — Takaoka’s 1838 confectioner shapes sugar in carved wooden molds borrowed from the castle town’s metal-casting trade [2026 Guide for International Readers]
Takaoka, on the coastal plain of Toyama Prefecture, has been a casting town since 1611, when the Kaga…
Imoya Kinjiro Imo Kenpi (芋屋金次郎 芋けんぴ, boxed sweet-potato sticks) — Kochi’s sugar-glazed fried tuber snack from a specialist confectioner [2026 Guide for International Readers]
Imo kenpi is one of Kochi Prefecture's most recognizable everyday sweets: batons of local sweet potato deep-fried and…
Amidaike Daikoku Awa-okoshi (あみだ池大黒 粟おこし, boxed assortment with Iwa-okoshi) — Osaka’s Edo-era crisp puffed-rice-and-sugar okoshi confection [2026 Guide for International Readers]
Okoshi is one of Japan's oldest confections — hardened puffed rice bound with sugar and starch syrup —…