7 Delicious Sweets from Tokachi, the Kingdom of Sweets
Located in the southeastern part of Hokkaido, the Tokachi area is a major production hub for confectionery ingredients. High-quality ingredients such as wheat, dairy products, sugar beets (the raw material for sugar), and azuki beans, which are essential for Japanese sweets, are produced and processed in Tokachi. Because high-quality ingredients are readily available, a delightful point about Tokachi sweets is that they are not only delicious but also reasonably priced.
Here are some sweet shops you should definitely visit when you come to Tokachi.
1Rokkatei Obihiro Main Store
"Rokkatei" boasts immense popularity as a Hokkaido confectionery manufacturer. While they have 66 stores throughout Hokkaido, the very first one is this "Obihiro Main Store." The bright tearoom, where soft sunlight streams in, is always bustling with many people.
A must-try here is the "Sakusaku Pie" (Crispy Pie). A cornet-shaped baked pie is filled to the brim with gently sweet custard cream. The shelf life of the pie is three hours. This is due to their commitment to having you enjoy the crispy texture of the pie before it begins to absorb the moisture from the cream. It can only be eaten at the Obihiro Main Store and the Nishi-Sanjo Store.
In addition, you can enjoy items that can only be tasted in the tearoom, such as recommended products that appear every month.
Local
Supporter
You must try the "Sakusaku Pie" when you visit! The "Marusei Ice Sandwich" is also recommended.
New products themed around Hokkaido
In addition to classic products famous as souvenirs like "Marusei Butter Sand" and "Strawberry Chocolate," various new products are also being released. The new product "Koenrin," released in 2026, features cocoa and mocha sponge cake sandwiched alternately with buttercream and coated in chocolate. It is a treat where you can enjoy the texture of crisp chocolate and fluffy sponge cake.
- Rokkatei Obihiro Main Store
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6 Nishi 2-jo Minami 9-chome, Obihiro City, Hokkaido MAP 
5-minute walk from Obihiro Station
9:00–18:00 (Tea room 11:00–17:00, L.O. 16:30)
*Hours vary by season
Open every day (Tea room closed every Wednesday)
0120-12-6666 (Toll-free 9:00–18:00)
Free (19 spaces)
2Ryugetsu Sweetpia Garden
Ryugetsu Sweetpia Garden is a factory-direct store for "Ryugetsu," a company that represents Tokachi. Its most popular product, "Sanporoku," is a log-shaped baumkuchen that uses white and milk chocolate to recreate the appearance of white birch bark. It features a carefully crafted flavor and a moist texture, using ingredients primarily sourced from Hokkaido, including 100% Tokachi-grown wheat. In addition to standard flavors like plain, salted butter, and honey lemon (exclusive to Sweetpia Garden), various seasonal flavors such as pumpkin and chocolate are also released.
An experience unique to a factory-direct store
One of the pleasures unique to a factory-direct store is the factory tour. As a facility with top-class factory floor space in the country that maintains thorough hygiene management, you can observe the process of drawing the white birch pattern on "Sanporoku" and the cutting process.
Furthermore, there is a cafe corner where you can enjoy the taste of freshly made products, and the hands-on workshop (fee required) hosts cake making and cookie decorating events every day.
Another unique feature here is the ability to purchase "Sanporoku bargain items," which are filled with the end pieces of "Sanporoku" produced during the manufacturing process—a well-known secret loved by locals. These are sold in limited quantities to those who line up in the order of arrival before the store opens every day.
Local
Supporter
It is fun to watch the Sanporoku being made one after another. There is also a wide selection of limited-edition products that can only be bought here.
- Ryugetsu Sweetpia Garden
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- 1-1 Natsuzora, Otofuke-cho, Kato-gun, Hokkaido MAP
- 15 minutes by car from Obihiro Station
- Summer: 9:00–18:00 (Cafe until 17:00)
Winter: 9:00–17:00 (Cafe until 16:30) - Open every day
- 0155-32-3366
- Free
3Cranberry Main Store
Founded in 1972, "Cranberry," which manufactures and sells Western confectionery in Obihiro, Tokachi, has long been loved for its popular "Sweet Potato" product. Each one is carefully made using carefully selected sweet potatoes, preserving the quality and flavor of the ingredients. It is characterized by its appearance, which uses the sweet potato skin as a container, and its substantial size that cannot fit in both hands. You can enjoy the changes in sweetness and texture by eating the moist, fine-grained sweet potato together with the custard cream spread on the bottom.
Feel free to try it out in the eat-in area
Since the sweet potato skin is used as a container, the shape and size vary. Each one is very filling, and you can choose and purchase your preferred size. For those who want to eat immediately or are worried about finishing it, we recommend the "Sweet Potato Set" available at the eat-in space inside the store. You can enjoy sliced sweet potato along with a drink.
Furthermore, please be sure to try the soft-serve ice cream (140 yen; mini size is 108 yen), which is reputed to have the best cost performance in the Tokachi area, also a highlight of the locally held soft-serve ice cream rally in which over 80 stores in the Tokachi area participate, along with your sweet potato.
Local
Supporter
This item is creamy and soft, allowing you to taste the natural sweetness of the sweet potato.
- Cranberry Main Store
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- Nishi 2-jo Minami 6-chome, Obihiro City, Hokkaido MAP
- 5 minutes by car or 12 minutes on foot from Obihiro Station
- 9:00–20:00
- Open every day
- 0155-22-6656
- Free
4Uemon's Heart
"Uemon's Heart" is a soft-serve ice cream and gelato shop operated by Hirose Farm. They use raw milk milked at the farm to make handmade gelato combined with seasonal ingredients at the shop located on the premises. Now in its 27th year since opening, there are over 140 gelato recipes. There are always 18 flavors available, using ingredients such as Tokachi-grown produce and pesticide-free organic vegetables.
The popular choice is the doppio (double) style. You can order a combination of their specialty soft-serve ice cream, which allows you to taste the deliciousness of the milk directly, and your choice of gelato.
We also recommend the freshly squeezed milk, which can only be drunk inside the store.
A place to enjoy delicious gelato
Hirose Farm also accepts visitors and offers experiences as a "Dairy Education Farm." Wanting visitors to easily enjoy delicious milk, the owner's wife trained in gelato making in Tokyo and Italy, and opened her long-awaited gelato shop, "Uemon's Heart."
High-quality raw milk milked from healthy dairy cows is pasteurized at a low temperature just once and processed into gelato at the workshop right next door, creating fresh, rich-tasting gelato made daily.
It is so delicious that locals stop by during their work breaks or after finishing work.
Local
Supporter
It is rich yet has a refreshing aftertaste that makes you want another serving. The seasonal flavors are also a highlight.
- Uemon's Heart
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- 13 Nishi 23-jo Minami 6-chome, Obihiro City, Hokkaido MAP
- Approx. 20 minutes by car from Obihiro Station
- 10:00–18:00 (until 17:00 only in March, November, and December)
- Closed on Wednesdays only in March, October, November, and December
- 0155-33-6064
- Free
5Tokachi Toteppo Factory
Tokachi, known as the kingdom of dairy farming, is also a major production area for natural cheese. Tokachi Toteppo Kobo was born in this region with the desire to "create a sweets shop with cheesecake as its signature product" and "share the wonders of Tokachi, Hokkaido." Our specialty cheesecakes are sold frozen as souvenirs, and there are always 3 to 4 varieties lined up in the showcase
. In addition, we offer a wide range of products, including various cakes and baked goods made with Hokkaido ingredients.
While looking out over the spacious garden
Tokachi Toteppo Kobo is named after "Toteppo-dori," a walking path on the site of a former railway that was once used to transport sugar beets, the raw material for sugar. At the entrance to the shop, you are welcomed by plantings of seasonal flowers. We also recommend our cafe space, where you can enjoy sweets while looking out over the beautifully maintained garden. With seasonal products and cafe-exclusive menus, you will find new discoveries every time you visit.
It is also one of the leading cheese specialty shops in Hokkaido, with 30 types of natural cheese from 10 cheese workshops in Tokachi always available.
Local
Supporter
The cheesecake is a cute size, making it easy to eat as a quick snack. The beet sugar pudding is mellow with a pleasant, natural sweetness.
- Tokachi Toteppo Factory
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- 3-1 Nishi 6-jo Minami 17-chome, Obihiro City, Hokkaido MAP
- Approx. 45 minutes by car from Tokachi-Obihiro Airport, approx. 10 minutes on foot from Obihiro Station, along "Toteppo-dori"
- 10:00–18:00 (Cafe until 17:00, L.O. 16:30)
- Irregular holidays
- 0155-21-0101 (Cafe: 070-4177-2631)
- Free
6Memuro Farmers Market Aisu-ya
At "Aisu-ya," you can enjoy gelato made with vegetables from Memuro Town, Tokachi. We are committed to using only Tokachi-grown ingredients, starting with fresh milk from healthy cows raised primarily on our own pasture grass and corn, as well as dairy products and granulated sugar, and everything is handmade in the shop every day.
We do not use any additives to improve texture, and we value the natural flavor of the vegetables, so you can enjoy the different textures that come from the ingredients themselves.
Plenty of ingredients from Memuro Town
We use vegetables from Memuro Town, handled by the "Aisaiya" market operated by JA Memuro, as ingredients for our gelato. Out of about 30 flavors, about 10 made with seasonal ingredients are always available in the shop.
Whenever we hear that farmers in Memuro Town have harvested a new crop, we take on the challenge of developing new flavors using it, sharing the appeal of Memuro's agriculture through ice cream.
Our "Gela-Soft," which combines our rich and creamy homemade soft-serve ice cream with your choice of gelato, is very popular.
Local
Supporter
There are some unusual flavors, and the "mountain wasabi" gelato is surprisingly delicious, with a spicy kick amidst the sweetness.
- Memuro Farmers Market Ice-ya
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- 1-1 Higashi Memuro 3-jo Minami 1-chome, Memuro-cho, Kasai-gun, Hokkaido MAP
- 20 minutes by car from Obihiro Station, 5 minutes by car from Memuro Station
- May to end of November: 9:00– (Check website for closing time)
- Every Monday and Thursday *Subject to temporary opening
- 0155-62-5319
- Free
7Recette Chocolat
This chocolate specialty shop was opened in 2013 by an owner-patissier from Obihiro who gained experience in Tokyo and Sapporo. About eight types of cakes made with plenty of chocolate are always lined up in the showcase. The top recommendation is the "Quad Chocolat." It features the rich sweetness and slight bitterness of chocolate, with six layers of cream made from 70% Colombian cacao chocolate and moist, flourless chocolate sponge.
Wrapped in the scent of chocolate
All ingredients other than the chocolate are sourced from Tokachi, and the shop offers cakes, baked goods, and bonbon chocolates made with seasonal ingredients. They have also started "Bean to Bar" production, sourcing Colombian cacao to make chocolate bars from scratch. The owner-patissier makes each item one by one with great attention to detail.
Local
Supporter
There is a wide variety of chocolates, making them perfect as a treat for yourself or as a gift.
- Recette Chocolat
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- 7-18 Nishi 18-jo Minami 4-chome, Obihiro City, Hokkaido MAP
- 10 minutes by car from Obihiro Station
- 10:00–18:00
- Mondays and Tuesdays
- 0155-66-6780
- Free
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