Wagashi (Japanese Traditional Dessert, Best 10 in Chubu)

English list

”WAGASHI” is traditional Japanese confectionery, strongly connected to the four seasons. You can enjoy the visual beauty of WAGASHI as well as its delicious flavor. One way to enjoy WAGASHI is to learn about its history, which is deeply rooted in the motifs and events of the four seasons.

WAGASHI is made in various regions of Japan, taking advantage of local agricultural products.

Here are our original best 10 rankings of WAGASHI in Chubu regions based on calculating the number of tags on social media and the number of web searches.

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繁体中文（Traditional Chinese list）

和菓子這詞是指跟四季緊密相連的日本傳統點心。這種傳統點心不但能從味覺上品味，也可以從視覺上享受它們的美感。而了解藏在和菓子上的圖案背後的歷史和它們與四季的關連，亦不失為一個品味它的方法。

另外，這些和菓子都是使用本地種植的農產物，在日本各地製造的。

為了讓大家更加了解在日本最受歡迎的和菓子，我們根據社交平台的引用次數和網絡搜索引擎的搜尋次數，為大家整理出中部地區最受歡迎的十個和菓子排名!

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Best 10 in Chubu

1. Oshimon/Okoshimon (Aichi Prefecture)

2. Kurikinton (Gifu Prefecture)

3. Kashiwamochi (Fukui Prefecture)

4. Goheimochi (Nagano Prefecture)

5. Oyaki (Nagano Prefecture)

6. Hangoroshi (Nagano Prefecture)

7. Karasumi (Gifu Prefecture)

8. Hesomochi (Shizuoka Prefecture)

9. Mizumanjyu (Gifu Prefecture)

10. Hatsuumadango (Gifu Prefecture)

1. Oshimon/Okoshimon (Aichi Prefecture)

Oshimon is a local confectionery offered to Hina dolls on the Peach Festival, in which rice flour is kneaded with boiling water, molded, and colored with colored powder.

oshimon

2. Kurikinton (Gifu Prefecture)

Kurikinton is a simple Japanese confectionery in which once steamed chestnuts are cooked with sugar and shaped into a chestnut shape with a cloth.

Photo source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

3. Kashiwa-mochi (Fukui Prefecture)

Kashiwa Mochi is a celebratory rice cake made of fine white rice flour and white bean flour and filled with red bean paste or miso bean paste.

Photo source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

4. Gohei-mochi (Nagano Prefecture)

Goheimochi is made by wrapping mashed rice around a skewer, shaping it, dipping it in sweet and spicy sauce, and grill it.

5. Oyaki (Nagano Prefecture)

Oyaki is made by mixing wheat flour and buckwheat flour with water or hot water, kneading it into a thin, flaky crust, and baking it with seasonal ingredients such as red bean paste and vegetables.

Photo source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

6. Hangoroshi (Nagano Prefecture)

The term Hangoroshi refers to “Botamochi” or “Ohagi” in Nagano Prefecture, where cooked glutinous rice is pounded with a wooden pestle until it is half-crushed.

Photo source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

7. Karasumi (Gifu Prefecture)

A steamed confectionery made from rice flour. It is a Japanese confectionery made by kneading sugar, brown sugar, mugwort, walnuts, etc. into rice flour and steaming it.

Photo source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

8. Heso-mochi (Shizuoka Prefecture)

Pour a little boiling water into the Kamishinko dough and knead until the dough is the consistency of earlobes. Roll into dumplings, flatten them with the palm of your hand, and make an indentation in the center of the dumpling like a navel.