Gion Tokuya (Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture) has a reputation for its sweet treats made with carefully selected ingredients and freshly prepared delicacies, such as hot rice cakes baked by customers themselves on a dedicated stove and warabimochi made from domestic warabimochi flour. Their signature item, the warabimochi, has a melt-in-your-mouth texture and a gentle flavor unique to real warabi flour.

Mitsuya] (Ukyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture) is a store specializing in warabi mochi (rice cakes) made from natural real warabi (straw). Made with natural strawbeech flour from Akita Prefecture, the purity of the starch is higher than that of ordinary strawbeech, making it stickier and more elastic and giving the mochi a strong rice cake texture. The gentle sweetness and generous amount of Kyoto kinako (soybean flour) make it a simple yet unmistakable delicacy that everyone will love.

At Saryo Hosen (Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture), run by Hosen-do, a Japanese confectionery store established in 1952, you can enjoy sweet treats while gazing at a Japanese garden in a tatami room built in the traditional sukiya style. The lusciously glossy warabimochi, which are made to order, are unparalleled in their elasticity and softness.

Ichijoji Nakatani (Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture) is a Japanese confectionery that has been in business for three generations and is known for its Dechi Yokan, a local specialty of Ichijoji. The summer favorite is the colander warabi. The strawbutter is made with fresh Hokkaido cream and placed in a small colander. Served with Hateruma-grown molasses and soybean flour, this blend of Japanese and Western flavors is a hit with children and adults alike.