八坂の塔のすぐそばにある「峯嵐堂 八坂店」は、わらびもちと40種ほどの豆菓子がずらりと並ぶお店。近くの八坂庚申堂にちなんで決めたという申と、商品の豆が店内の壁面いっぱいに飛び交います。高いところが苦手なKi-Yanにとっては、緊張した現場の一つだとか。名物のわらびもちは自社特製で、前場信之社長が約2年かけて作った極上のきなこを、一番おいしく食べてもらうために作られたそう。店頭での「ぷるっ、とろっ」は素通りできない光景です。

Located just below Yasaka Pagoda, the Yasaka branch of Hourandou offers 40 kinds of mamegashi (beans snacks) as well as a selection of warabi mochi (a Japanese confection made from bracken starch). You may be surprised to see monkeys-a motif that comes from the neighbouring Yasaka Koshindo Templeand giant blue beans flying across the vermillion red walls and ceiling of the shop’s traditional Japanese interior. Because of the high ceilings, this mural was one of Ki-Yan’s most challenging pieces to complete! While taking in this spectacular work of art, try some of the famous soft, jelly-like warabi mochi. It took me two years to develop this kinako (roasted soybean flour) to match the taste of my homemade warabi mochi’, explains the shop’s owner, Nobuyuki Maeba.

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