Christmas in Kanazawa, the town of Japanese confectionaries

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Christmas Eve! A big cold wave has been hitting Kanazawa since yesterday, and snow has been falling steadily. In addition to the snowy scenery, you can also experience the four seasons through wagashi (Japanese confectionery) in Kanazawa. Kanazawa's representative wagashi, "Kamisegashi," is also...
Urata's Christmas Kamigami sweets (2022 version)
The visuals are very cute! Santa Claus is made with strawberry flavor, the reindeer with chocolate flavor, and the tree with milk flavor. If you go to the "Anto" souvenir shop in the station, you will find many long-established Japanese sweets shops lined up, and you will find yourself impulsively buying the cute Kamigashi sweets on display.

After Christmas...comes New Year's!

One of Kanazawa's New Year's wagashi is "Fukubai". It is a red-and-white colored monaka filled with red bean paste. The outside is coated with honey and sprinkled with sugar, giving it a rough texture. The flower shape is based on the Maeda family crest, the "Ken-ume-bachi" (sword-plum bowl). In Ishikawa Prefecture, these sweets have long been popular as good luck sweets to be eaten on New Year's Day.
Fukubai at each store
At Anto, there was a large signboard introducing each store's fukuubai. Most fukuubai are sold in sets of 5 or 10 because everyone eats them at New Year's, but there are also stores that sell them piecemeal, so why don't you try them and compare?
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