Ichijyoji Nakatani, famous for its “silken green tea tea Tirimasu,” is the head family of Japanese and Western-style confections.
Ichijyoji Nakaya is famous for its specialty “silken green tea teirimasu”.
It is a 5-minute walk from Ichijyoji Station on the Eizan Electric Railway.
Ichijojo-karimatsu, the site of Miyamoto Musashi’s duel with Yoshioka Ichimon, is just a short distance away.
The “Silken Green Tea Tirimasu” is a typical Western-style confectionery using Japanese ingredients.
This extremely popular sweet has a four-month waiting list even when sold by reservation on the Internet.
It was born when the owner, who was a Japanese food chef, took over his family’s Japanese confectionery business and his wife was a pastry chef.
The adjective often used to describe the combination of different types of things,
It is often said that when two different types of things come together, it is a “marriage of something and something else,
In this case, it really is a marriage.
The store is decorated in a purely Japanese style. In addition to “Silken-green tea Tirimasu,” there are other popular products such as “Dechi Yokan” (thick yokan jelly).
There is also an extensive take-out section. It can be used as a souvenir.
On the other hand, there is a full lineup of cakes. About half of them are Western sweets and half are Japanese sweets.
The interior is like a café. You can eat in.
Here it is! Silken green tea Tirimasu.
It’s in a square if you order online, but in the store it looks like this.
Matcha green tea, soy milk, fromage blanc, white bean paste, and whipped cream are folded together to create a moist and fluffy texture.
The matcha green tea is from Yanagisakuraen, and the red beans and black soybeans are from Tanba, so there is no skimping on the ingredients.
It certainly has a Japanese confectionery feel to it, and of course it also has a Western feel to it.
It is amazing that it does not feel out of place at all.
I wonder why matcha sweets, such as matcha parfait, have not made much inroads into overseas markets.
Chinese foreigners visiting Japan are quite fond of matcha sweets, but I don’t hear that much about them from Westerners.
By the way, “Ichijyoji Nakaya” was still all Japanese.
There are also many other cakes, cream puffs, and other western sweets.
There is also a menu item called “Zaruwarabi. There are many confections blending Japanese and Western styles.
The second-generation owner is still young, so I have a feeling that more Japanese and Western blended sweets will be born in the future.
Ichijoji Nakaya
5 Hananoki-cho, Ichijyoji, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto
9:00-19:00
Wednesdays (closed irregularly in November)
075-781-5504
075-711-1793
