This sweet potato sweets specialty store relocated from Takatsuki, Osaka to Gion in 2023. The new menu item, the sweet potato parfait, is a delightful way to enjoy a small selection of popular items, including jokichi sweet potatoes. The sweetness of the same sweet potato differs so much depending on how it is cooked! You will be able to rediscover the high potential of sweet potatoes.

A café attached to a footbath salon [Arashiyu] where you can enjoy sweet potato sweets and drinks. The sweet potatoes are matured in a warehouse where the temperature and humidity are thoroughly controlled. You can enjoy sweet potato ice cream with ice cream on top, honey butter and honey on top, and other sweet potato arrangements.

This store offers a variety of sweet potato sweets made from carefully selected sweet potatoes that have been aged for more than 40 days. You can enjoy a wide variety of sweet potato sweets, such as the sweetened, densely baked sweet potato that is quickly deep-fried at a high temperature and covered with plenty of honey, or the sweet potato daifuku (sweet potato cake wrapped in a sweet potato wrapper) that you can freely combine with other sweet potato sweets, along with tea and Japanese black tea selected by a tea master to match the sweet potato.

This is a popular yaki-imo specialty store in peaceful Miyamaki, where fields of rice paddies spread out. The owner, Mr. Matsumura, who learned about sweet potatoes and yaki-imo directly from Mr. Yoshio Matsumoto, a master yaki-imo hermit in Ibaraki Prefecture, handles everything from growing the potatoes to baking them himself. The yaki-imo he is particular about is characterized by its large size and overflowing with honey, and once you try it, you will never forget its unforgettable taste.

The owner, Noriko Tamura, who learned the know-how at a popular tsubo yaki-imo store [Koujin] in Gifu Prefecture, runs this yaki-imo store with her son, Sora, and their family. In addition to the rich tsubo yaki-imo, which is baked slowly in a Tokoname-yaki pot, the sweet potato soy milk ice cream parfait, available only from April to November, is also popular.

Mr. Nakamura, the representative of the company, won the runner-up prize in the National Yam Grand Prix 2022. Focusing on the sweet potato, which is ideal for building a healthy body, he produces sweet potato sweets that also satisfy the soul, such as the super-honey sweet potato with concentrated sweetness and the honey sweet potato sandwich made with sweet baked sweet potato and Hokkaido cream sandwiched between bread.

Konishi Imo has been in business for more than 70 years and is still loved by local residents as "the place to go when you think of a potato shop." Since 2019, they have collaborated with a popular gelato store in the Sanjokai shopping district, Premarche Gelateria, to sell gelato made without animal products and a university potato parfait that brings out the natural sweetness of potatoes.