7 Delicious Sweets from 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 a Hokkaido-based confectionery maker that enjoys immense popularity. While it operates 66 stores throughout Hokkaido, its very first store is right here at the "Obihiro Main Store." The bright café, bathed in soft sunlight, is always bustling with people.
The “Crispy Pie” is a must-try here. This cornet-shaped pastry is generously filled with gently sweet custard cream.The pie has a shelf life of just 3 hours. This is a point of pride for the shop—they want you to enjoy the pie’s crispy texture before it starts to absorb the moisture from the cream. It’s available only at the Obihiro Main Store and the Nishi-Sanjo Store.
In addition, you can enjoy other items exclusive to the café, such as monthly featured specialties.
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The "crispy pie" is a must-try when you visit here! The "Marusei Ice Cream Sandwich" is also highly recommended.
New Hokkaido-themed products are also available.
In addition to classic favorites like the famous “Marusei Butter Sandwich” and “Strawberry Chocolate”—popular as souvenirs—a variety of new products are also being introduced.The new “Koenrin,” released in 2026, features layers of cocoa and mocha sponge cake alternately sandwiched with buttercream and coated in chocolate. It’s a treat that lets you enjoy the contrast between the crisp chocolate and the fluffy sponge cake.
- 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 AM–6:00 PM (Café: 11:00 AM–5:00 PM, Last Order 4:30 PM)
*Hours may vary by season
Open every day (Coffee shop is closed on Wednesdays)
0120-12-6666 (Toll-free, 9:00 AM–6:00 PM)
Free (19 spaces)
2Yanagizuki Sweet Pier Garden
"Ryugetsu Sweetpia Garden" is the factory outlet store of "Ryugetsu," a brand synonymous with Tokachi. Its most popular product, "Sanpouroku," is a log-shaped Baumkuchen that uses white and milk chocolate to mimic the grain of birch wood.Made with 100% Tokachi-grown wheat flour and primarily using ingredients sourced from Hokkaido, it is characterized by its distinctive flavor and moist texture. In addition to classic flavors such as Plain, Salted Butter, and Honey Lemon (exclusive to Sweetpia Garden), various seasonal flavors—including pumpkin and chocolate—are released throughout the year.
Experience the unique factory-direct store
One of the unique pleasures of visiting the factory-direct store is the factory tour. The facility, which boasts one of the largest floor areas in the country for a factory with such rigorous hygiene standards, allows visitors to observe how the “Sanpōroku” birch-pattern design is applied and how the cake is sliced.
Furthermore, there’s a café corner where you can enjoy the taste of freshly made treats, and the Experience workshop (for a fee) offers daily activities such as cake-making and decorating cookies.
Another unique feature here is the “Sanpōroku Bargain Pack,” a hidden gem beloved by locals that’s made from the scraps of “Sanpōroku” produced during manufacturing. These packs are sold in limited quantities each day on a first-come, first-served basis to customers who line up before the store opens.
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It is fun to watch the three-quarter cakes being made one after the other. There are also a wide variety of limited-edition products that can only be purchased here.
- Yanagizuki Sweet Pier Garden
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- 1-1 Natsuzora, Otofuke-cho, Kawato-gun, Hokkaido MAP
- 15 min. drive from Obihiro Station
- Summer: 9:00 AM–6:00 PM (Café open until 5:00 PM)
Winter: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM (Café open until 4:30 PM) - 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.
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Creamy and soft, with the natural sweetness of 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
"Uemon's Heart" is a soft-serve ice cream and gelato shop operated by Hirose Farm. The shop, located on the farm grounds, combines fresh milk milked on-site with seasonal ingredients to create and sell handmade gelato. Now in its 27th year of operation, the shop offers over 140 different gelato flavors.They always have 18 flavors available, made with ingredients such as Tokachi-grown produce and pesticide-free organic vegetables.
The popular “Doppio” (double) style allows you to combine their signature soft-serve—which lets you enjoy the pure taste of milk—with your choice of gelato.
We also recommend the freshly milked milk, available exclusively for in-store consumption.
A place to enjoy delicious gelato
Hirose Farm, operating as a “Dairy Education Farm,” welcomes visitors for tours and hands-on experiences. Wanting visitors to easily enjoy delicious milk, the owner’s wife trained in gelato-making in Tokyo and Italy before opening her long-awaited gelato shop, “Uemons Heart.”
High-quality raw milk, milked from healthy dairy cows, is pasteurized just once at a low temperature and then processed into gelato in the workshop right next door, resulting in fresh, rich, and flavorful gelato made daily.
It’s so delicious that even locals stop by during their work breaks or after work.
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Supporters
It has a rich yet refreshing aftertaste that makes you want another serving. The flavors, which change seasonally, are also appealing.
- 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 only in March, October, 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. The Tokachi Totepo Workshop was born out of a desire to “create a dessert shop in Tokachi with cheesecake as its signature item” and to “share the wonders of Hokkaido’s Tokachi region.”Their carefully crafted cheesecakes are sold frozen as souvenirs, and 3–4 varieties are always on display in the showcase
. In addition, they offer a wide selection of other products, including various cakes and baked goods that make the most of Hokkaido-grown ingredients.
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.
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The cheesecake is a cute size, making it easy to eat for a quick snack. The sugar pudding is mild and has a natural sweetness with a pleasant aftertaste.
- 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 (Café open until 17:00 *Last order at 16:30)
- Closed on weekends and holidays
- 0155-21-0101 (Café: 070-4177-2631)
- 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.
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There are also some unusual flavors, such as "mountain wasabi" gelato, which has a spicy sweetness that will surprise you with its unexpected taste.
- 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
- May–End of November: 9:00 a.m.– (Please check the website for closing times)
- Every Monday and Thursday *May be open on other days as well
- 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 except chocolate are sourced from Tokachi, and the shop offers a selection of cakes, baked goods, and bonbons made with seasonal ingredients. They’ve also launched a “Bean to Bar” line, sourcing Colombian cacao beans to craft chocolate bars from scratch. The owner-pastry chef creates each item by hand, one at a time, with meticulous care.
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There is a wide variety of chocolates, perfect as a gift or as a treat for yourself.
- Lucette Chocolat
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- 7-18, Nishi 18-jo Minami 4-chome, Obihiro City, Hokkaido MAP
- 10 minutes drive from Obihiro Station
- 10:00-18:00
- Mon. and Tues.
- 0155-66-6780
- Free of charge
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