Sosendo

Located in Omachi, Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture, Sosendo is a well-established Japanese confectionery shop that has been running since the Edo period. The main building built in 1893 was designated as a tangible cultural property of Japan, and still has the same old townhouse building style intact including the vaulted Japanese-style sitting room, old beams, and a sunken hearth. The shop has a variety of different confectioneries and cakes such as the Murakami specialty, Budokan, as well as fresh seasonal cakes and yokan (adzuki-bean jelly). Their Sake-no-kirimi rakugan (hard candy) which looks just like a fillet of salmon is a typical confection considering Murakami is known as the place of salmon.