7 Delicious Sweets in Tokachi, the Kingdom of Sweets
The Tokachi area, located in southeastern Hokkaido, is a major producer of raw materials for sweets. High-quality raw materials such as wheat, dairy products, sugar beets (beet), and azuki beans (an essential ingredient for Japanese sweets) are produced and processed in Tokachi. Because of the availability of high-quality raw materials, Tokachi sweets are not only delicious but also reasonably priced, which is a pleasant point.
Here are some sweets stores that you should definitely stop by when you come to Tokachi.
1Rokkatei Obihiro Main Store
Rokkatei is an immensely popular confectionary maker in Hokkaido. Rokkatei has over 70 stores in Hokkaido, the first of which is the Obihiro Main Store. The brightly lit coffee shop with soft sunlight is always crowded with people.
The "crispy pie" is a must-try here. The pie is baked in the shape of a coronet and filled with soft sweet custard cream. The pie has a shelf life of three hours. The pie has a shelf life of three hours, and we want our customers to enjoy the crispy texture of the pie before it begins to absorb the moisture from the cream. The pie is only available at three stores in Hokkaido, including the Obihiro and Sapporo main stores.
You can also enjoy other products only available at the coffee shop, such as recommended items that appear monthly.
New Hokkaido-themed products are also available.
In addition to standard products such as "Marusei Butter Sandwich" and "Strawberry Chocolate," which are famous as souvenirs, a variety of new products are also available. Rokkatei's commemorative product "Tokachi Rokka", celebrating its 85th anniversary, is a butter-filled pie with a motif of the six flowers of the northern land, making it a perfect souvenir. Kitakaimichi," a soft pie crust wrapped in gently sweetened sweet bean paste, uses a map drawn by Takeshiro Matsuura, godfather of Hokkaido, on its packaging to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the naming of Hokkaido.
- Rokkatei Obihiro Main Store
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9-6 Nishi 2-jo Minami, Obihiro City, Hokkaido MAP
5 min. walk from Obihiro Station
9:00-18:30 (Coffee 10:00-17:30 L.O.17:00)
*Varies depending on the season.
Open every day (Coffee shop is closed on Wednesdays)
0120-12-6666 (toll free)
Free of charge (9 cars)
2Yanagizuki Sweet Pier Garden
The "Yanagizuki Sweet Pier Garden" is a factory-operated store of "Yanagizuki," a representative of Tokachi. The most popular product, "Sanbouroku," is a baumkuchen in the shape of firewood, with the bark of a white birch tree expressed in white and milk chocolate. The dough is made with 100% Tokachi flour, butter, sugar, and eggs all produced in Hokkaido, and is characterized by its particular flavor and moist dough. In addition to standard flavors such as plain, maple, and honey lemon (available only at Sweetopia Garden), a variety of flavors such as green tea and cheese are also available.
Experience the unique factory-direct store
One of the unique pleasures of a factory-operated store is a tour of the factory. With a factory area that is one of the best in Japan for a thoroughly sanitized factory, visitors can see how the birch pattern of "Sanporoku" is drawn and the process of cutting it into pieces.
In addition, there is a coffee shop corner where visitors can enjoy the taste of freshly made products, and a hands-on workshop (for a fee) where cake baking and drawing cookies are offered every day.
It is only here that you can purchase the "Mikatakuroku bargain products," which are made by stuffing the ends of "Mikatakuroku" that are produced during the manufacturing process, a favorite among locals and those in the know. Numbered tickets are distributed before the store opens every day, and the products are sold in limited quantities.
- Yanagizuki Sweet Pier Garden
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- 18-2, Kita 9 Line West 18-2, Shimoondori, Ondo-cho, Kawato-gun, Hokkaido MAP
- 15 min. drive from Obihiro Station
- April 16, 2018-November 4, 2018 9:00-18:00 (coffee shop open until 17:00)
November 5, 2018 - April 14, 2019 9:00-17:00 (coffee shop until 16:00) - No holidays
- 0155-32-3366
- Free of charge
3Cranberry Honten
Founded in 1972, "Cranberry" manufactures and sells western-style confections in Obihiro, Tokachi, and its long-loved and popular product is the "sweet potato. The sweet potatoes are carefully made one by one, using the best ingredients and flavors of the sweet potatoes. The sweet potato is characterized by its visual appearance using the skin of the sweet potato as a container, and by its large size that cannot fit in both hands. By eating it together with the moist and fine sweet potato and the custard cream on the bottom, you can enjoy the change in sweetness and texture.
Feel free to eat in and try it for yourself!
Since the sweet potato skin is used as a container, the shapes and sizes vary. They are all generous in volume, and you can choose the size you prefer. For those who want to eat them right away or are worried about being able to finish them, we recommend the "Sweet Potato Set," which can be ordered at the eat-in space provided in the store. You can enjoy a cut sweet potato with a drink.
In addition, be sure to try the soft-serve ice cream (140 yen; mini-size is 108 yen), which is reputed to have the strongest cost performance in the Tokachi area, the focus of the locally held soft-serve ice cream rally in which more than 80 stores in the Tokachi area participate, along with the sweet potatoes.
- Cranberry Main Store
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- 6-chome, Nishi 2-jo Minami, Obihiro, Hokkaido MAP
- 5 min. drive or 12 min. walk from Obihiro Station
- 9:00-20:00
- No holidays
- 0155-22-6656
- Free of charge
4Wemmon's Heart
Wemons Heart is a soft serve ice cream and gelato store operated by Hirose Ranch. Milk squeezed at the ranch is combined with seasonal ingredients at the store on the premises and sold as handmade gelato. In the 19 years since its opening, the store has prepared more than 100 gelato recipes. There are always 14 flavors available, using Tokachi products and organic, pesticide-free vegetables.
The most popular is the Doppio (double) style. You can order a combination of your favorite gelato and our special soft-serve ice cream, which allows you to taste the delicious taste of milk straight away.
We also recommend the freshly squeezed milk available only in the store.
A place to enjoy delicious ice cream
Hirose Farm is a "Dairy Education Farm" that accepts visitors for tours and experiences. The owner's wife trained in ice cream making in Tokyo and Italy, and opened her dream ice cream shop, "Wemmon's Heart," so that visitors can enjoy delicious milk in a casual setting.
The quality raw milk from healthy cows is pasteurized only once and processed into ice cream in a workshop right next door, producing fresh, flavorful gelato every day.
The taste is so good that locals stop by during their breaks or after work.
- Wemmons Heart
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- 6-13, Nishi 23-Jo Minami, Obihiro City, Hokkaido MAP
- 20 min. by car from Obihiro Station
- 10:00-18:00 (until 17:00 in March, November, and December only)
- Closed on Wednesdays in March, November, and December
- 0155-33-6064
- Free of charge
5Tokachi Totempo Kobo
Tokachi, known as the dairy kingdom, is also a major producer of natural cheese. Tokachi Toteppo Kobo was born out of the desire to create a specialty cheesecake store in Tokachi and to promote the beauty of Hokkaido and Tokachi. Four types of cheesecakes are always on display in the showcase. The soft and fluffy texture of a blend of three types of Hokkaido cheese (mascarpone, cream cheese, and fresh cheese) is matched with a crunchy cookie dough. Two popular standard cheesecakes and two limited-time-only cheesecakes that match the season and the season are available.
with a view of the spacious garden.
Tokachi Toteppo Kobo is named after "Toteppo Street," a walking path along the former railroad that was used to transport sugar beets, the raw material for sugar, in the old days. At the entrance of the store, visitors are greeted by plantings of seasonal flowers. We also recommend the café space where you can enjoy sweets while gazing at the beautifully maintained garden. Seasonal products and a café-only menu are available, delighting you with new discoveries each time you visit.
It is also one of the leading cheese specialty stores in Hokkaido, with 30 varieties of natural cheese from 10 cheese studios in Tokachi available at all times.
- Tokachi Totepo Workshop
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- 17-3-1, Nishi-6-jo-minami, Obihiro-shi, Hokkaido MAP
- 45 minutes drive from Tokachi-Obihiro Airport, 10 minutes walk from Obihiro Station along "Toteppo Street
- 10:00-18:00 (Cafe L.O. 17:30)
- No holidays
- 0155-21-0101
- Free of charge
6Memuro Farmers Market Aisuya
Aisuya offers gelato made with vegetables from Tokachi-Bumuro Town. The gelato is handmade daily at the store using fresh milk from healthy cows raised mainly on home-produced grass and corn, dairy products, granulated sugar, and other ingredients all produced in Tokachi.
The shop does not use any additives to improve the texture, and instead, emphasizes the natural flavor of the vegetables, allowing customers to enjoy the different textures of each ingredient.
Full of ingredients from the town of Bamuro
The vegetables grown in the town of Memuro, which are handled at "Aina-ya," a market operated by "JA Memuro," are used as ingredients for the gelato. From about 30 flavors, about 10 flavors using seasonal ingredients are always available at the store.
When they hear that a farmer in the town has harvested a new crop, they take on the challenge of developing a new flavor using it, thereby communicating the charm of the town's agriculture through ice cream.
Gelasoft, a combination of thick, creamy homemade soft-serve ice cream and gelato of your choice, is very popular.
- Memuro Farmers Market Aisuya
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- 1-1, Higashi-Memuro 3-jo Minami, Memuro-cho, Kawanishi-gun, Hokkaido MAP
- 20 min. drive from Obihiro Station, 5 min. drive from Blastmuro Station
- Late April - end of November 9:00 - (check website for closing hours)
- Every Monday and Thursday *Open if Monday or Thursday is a national holiday
- 0155-62-5319
- Free of charge
7Lucette Chocolat
This chocolate specialty store was opened in 2013 by the owner-patissier, an Obihiro native who gained experience in Tokyo and Sapporo. There are always about eight kinds of cakes with plenty of chocolate on display in the showcase. Among them, the "quad chocolat" is the most recommended. It features six layers of cream made with 70% Colombian cacao chocolate and moist, flourless chocolate dough, which gives the cake a rich chocolate sweetness and bittersweetness.
Surrounded by the aroma of chocolates
All ingredients other than chocolate are produced in Tokachi, and the lineup includes cakes, baked goods, and bonbon chocolates made with seasonal ingredients. The shop has also started a "bean to bar" business, purchasing cacao from Colombia and making chocolate boards from the beans. The owner-patissier makes each piece by himself with great care.
The chocolate cream puffs "Twa Choux" sold only on weekends are also popular.
- Lucette Chocolat
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- 4-7-18 Nishi 18-jo Minami, Obihiro City, Hokkaido MAP
- 10 minutes drive from Obihiro Station
- 9:30-19:30
- Mon. and Tues.
- 0155-66-6780
- Free of charge
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