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It is a well-known store that makes Okowaya, kempo, potato sugar, yokan, and baked goods using sweet potatoes from the name of Kawagoe, and has seven stores in the city. At the time bell shop, sweet potato soft cream called "Koi Soft" is very popular. In addition to selling sweet potato-based sweets such as Hokuhoku's sweet potato × Hokkaido tsubu-paste's manju "Imo-koi", a signboard sweets for "Kashō Umen", the store also offers "Imo-koi" for eating.

People come from inside and outside Saitama Prefecture to visit Okinawan goods such as health food, confectionery and condiments. Fresh sea grapes and others are also sold. There is an abundance of confectionery, food and awamori unique to Okinawa. The most popular is raw boiled noodles with Okinawan soba noodles. In addition, Ryukyu Mochiko banana juice, which can only be drunk in our shop and Ginza, is also very popular in Kanto.

In addition to candy, toys are also available. More than 1000 items are lined up with a lot of items, and visitors are constantly visiting popular shops. The candy viking, which can be selected from 35 types of candy, is very well received by female customers.

A long-established confectionery that continues from the Meiji era, using carefully selected sweet potatoes to protect the production method inherited from generations. There is a rich array of potato sweets, such as potato cut into thin slices and raw ginger-filled molasses and sugared potato jugen, soft potato jugang made of thick-cut potato pickled in molasses and sugar, and stick-shaped potato jugamatsuba. All are 500 yen per bag (plus tax). Folding box 1200 yen (tax included) ~.

A long-established company founded in 1902. With a mind of "friendly to the body", the Imo Senbei is a gem of a specialty of Kawagoe, which is made by the same method since its inception. There are more than 10 kinds such as lemon and matcha. A sweet potato sliced into pieces, smeared with sugar nectar and baked with a light texture, 324 yen for one bag, comes in two types: plain and purple potato, and has a lot of fans. I want to coat white chocolate on plain potato crackers.

A bakery with a reputation for local people. It focuses on domestic wheat and homemade yeast, and offers freshly baked bread filled with gugyutto umami while changing the way wheat is turned and formulated by bread. There is also a sandwich shop that uses the bread of the store.

From the paper papier-mâché of the Kawagoe Festival, such as kame, hyottoko, and fox, there are many handmade and unique folk art items such as straps, key chains and magnets that are perfect for souvenirs.

Gallery & craft shop on the second floor of the store storehouse (Toupo Yamawa) in the center of the town of Kura. Original clothes such as dragonfly balls, accessories, pottery, blown glass and cloth, mainly by local writers, are also well received. There are many fans of seasonal flowers decorating the shop and the exhibition once a month.

A specialty pottery shop with vessels and works by local authors collected from famous localities throughout the country. The building, which is built by a large house, is one of the most popular in the city. There is also a restaurant and Tojiko, and you can enjoy sweet and meal. It also sells original Kura no Mag 1320 yen and Kura no Machi Tenugui Towel 770 yen. The Okunokura also holds a pottery class (long-term, one-day experience).

Hanko store building with a long history. Although the building has been renovated in recent years, it reminds me of the good old times. It has also been used as a location for a drama. It makes and sells the one and only seal in hand-carved sculptures. In addition, 150 yen per picture postcard picture of Koedo Kawagoe's landscape paintings drawn by Masaru Aoyagi, a painter living in the city of Kawagoe, and 300 yen with 12 pieces of "Ichiki-ki" are also well received on sale.