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Utsuboya

Takayama, Gifu · Japan

Hida dagashi bean sweets

What you’ll find

What Utsuboya is known for

A confectioner in Takayama since 1890 making about thirty kinds of dagashi folk sweets from soybeans, sesame and peanuts, including its award-winning mameita bean crackers. The house also sells genkotsu kinako and black-sesame kokusen from its shop and online.