Kyoto is a great place to find various delicious Japanese-style foods. Have you ever wanted to take them home as souvenirs for your friends and family but you couldn’t? We have now more and more shops/restaurants which create various types of souvenirs so that people can enjoy the taste of Kyoto more easily. Here we introduce three recommended snacks for souvenirs available at Kyoto Station, which the att.JAPAN editors are glad to have purchased!
Shiba-zuke is one of Kyoto’s traditional pickles, which is made from eggplants and some other vegetables pickled in a mixture of red shiso perilla leaves and salt to let them ferment. One of the popular manufacturers of Kyoto’s pickles, Nishiri, has transformed shiba-zuke into Japanese rice crackers, arare ! The flavor of the unique fusion of sourness and saltiness of shiba-zuke is very good and interesting! They also go really well with alcohol.
| URL | https://www.nishiri.co.jp/c/c108/1048 |
Kombu is an edible kelp seaweed widely used for making dashi soup stock, which is essential for Kyoto cuisine. “Itsutsuji no Kombu” is a kombu specialty shop established in 1902 that offers various kinds of dried kombu and kombu tsukudani (preserved food simmered in soy sauce and sugar). “Pote-kon” is a potato-based snack with the umami of kombu, with a hint of refreshing spiciness of sansho Japanese pepper.
| URL | https://itutuji.com/products/cate4/3983.html |
Created by a venerable Japanese confectionery, Tsuruya Yoshinobu, founded in 1803, the “IRODORI” brand offers a modern version of traditional Japanese sweets. The specially recommended is kohakuto, which is made with agar powder and sugar. Their kohakuto is colorful and looks like pastel sticks for painting. Another feature of this sweet is that unexpected kinds of flavors for Japanese sweets are used, such as lavender and mint. Kohakuto is available at “IRODORI Kyoto Station Hachijo Exit,” a shop directly operated by Tsuruya Yoshinobu.
| URL | https://www.tsuruyayoshinobu-en.com/ |
