Chilly sweets in Fukushima! Kuzu ice cream that melts but doesn't melt [Gokashiji Ichijian] Fukushima City, Iizaka Onsen

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Ichijian, established in 1923, is a confectioner's shop in Fukushima.

The cute banner is a landmark! (Image courtesy of Ichimian)
Famous for its "Keshimanjyu," or "Keshi Manju," Ichimi An is a Japanese confectionery in Iizaka Onsen that boasts of its homemade red bean paste made from Hokkaido azuki beans. The shop offers a wide variety of baked and fresh confections, including the standard "moist kasutera" and seasonal "fresh fruit cakes. We make sweets with a gentle taste based on the concept of making sweets that are close to our customers' daily lives.

Ice cream that won't melt even in hot weather?

Recommended hardness is about 15 minutes after taking out of the freezer.
Even if it melts over time, it will not drip!
Fukushima City is located in the Fukushima Basin, surrounded by Mount Azuma and the Abukuma Plateau, and produces a lot of fruits! Even in such hot Fukushima, "ice cream that does not melt" was born! That is Ichimian's "Kuzu Ice Cream".

The fourth generation of Ichimian's family had a dream since childhood to "make sweets with delicious fruits from Iizaka Town". When he became an adult and took over the family business, his dream turned into a goal of "developing sweets that can be eaten and enjoyed in the hot spring resort area. Combining Iizaka-machi's delicious fruits and the Japanese ingredient kuzu (kudzu) flour, local farmers and Japanese confectioners worked together to create "Kuzu Ice," a Japanese confectionery in the style of popsicles. It has a mysterious texture that is both crispy when frozen and soft when frozen! This is a cool and refreshing treat from Fukushima that you must try this summer!
From left: Cafe Latte, Azuki Miruku, Peach (Akatsuki), Peach (Golden Peach), Strawberry Miruku
The most popular of the five types sold is the "Mysterious Peach Bar" made from peaches, a specialty of Iizaka Town. The "Akatsuki" peaches, the pride of Fukushima, are lavishly used in their pulpy form, and the sweetness of the juicy peaches fills the mouth.
The most popular mysterious peach bar "Akatsuki" (image courtesy of Ichimian)

Newly on sale! Amazake water buns are also recommended!

Water Manjuu with the gentle sweetness of amazake (image courtesy of Ichimian)
Speaking of cool Japanese sweets, "mizu-manju" is a cool looking sweet, and Ichimian has newly introduced "amazake mizu-manju". The ingredients used are locally produced in Fukushima, and a group of young businessmen of the same age got together to commercialize the product. Mr. Mochiji, a rice farmer in Kunimi-machi, grows Koshihikari rice, and Mr. Kokubu, a famous maltster in Motomiya City, turns it into "amakouji," or sweet malt. and wrapped with homemade sweet bean paste to make "amazake mizu-manju" (sweet sake water bun)! You can enjoy the gentle sweetness of the amakouji and the melt-in-your-mouth texture of the sweet bean paste.

Access to Gokashiji Ichimian

For those coming to Fukushima by Shinkansen, we recommend taking the Iizaka Train from Fukushima Station! After getting off at Iizaka Onsen Station on the Iizaka Line, it is about an 8-minute walk to "Gokashiji Ichimian".
Gokashiji Ichimian Official Instagram

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