About a 1-minute walk from JR Saga-Arashiyama Station, a shop has opened where you can take out potato and chestnut sweets that are perfect for eating while walking. The Mont Blanc sweet potato dango marron flavor is hearty, with a dango wrapped in sweet potato filling and a thin string of roasted chestnut paste poured over the top. There is also a version of roasted chestnut paste that incorporates Uji matcha.

Mr. Nakamura, the representative who won the semi-Grand Prix at the National Yakiimo Grand Prix 2022. Focusing on sweet potatoes, which are perfect for building a healthy body, they create sweet potato sweets that satisfy the soul, such as chilled tarashi potato dumplings, ultra-sweet sweet potatoes with concentrated sweetness, and honey potato sandwiches.

A cafe where you can enjoy sweet potato sweets and drinks, attached to the footbath salon [Arashiyu]. In addition to the pot-roasted sweet potatoes that appear every fall, other popular baked sweets include pot-roasted potato ice cream topped with ice cream and honey butter topped with butter and honey. Potato waffles are on standby for the menu that can be enjoyed all year round.

The owner, Noriko Tamura, who learned the know-how at Kojin, a popular tsuboyaki sweet potato shop in Gifu Prefecture, runs this roasted sweet potato shop with her family, including her son Sora. In addition to the rich tsubo-yaki sweet potato that is slowly baked in a Tokoname pot, the soy milk chilled sweet potato parfait that is sold year-round is also popular.

70 years since its establishment. [Konishi Potato] is still loved by the locals, saying, "When you think of a potato shop, it's here." Since 2019, we have collaborated with Premarche Gelateria, a popular gelato shop in the Sanjokai shopping district, to sell gelato made without using animal products and Daigaku potato parfait that brings out the natural sweetness of potatoes.